Mini-14 mags

[Min]

Could someone post a list of all the companies that make hi-cap mags for the Ruger Mini-14?

Also, which ones are reliable?

 

[BamBam-31]

PMI's are supposed to be the only reliable aftermarket mags. I've read that they were actually the ones making the factory mags, but I don't know for sure.

I do have several PMI 30-rounders for my Mini-14, and they all work like a charm.

 

[Gary G23]

PMI & Federal Ordnance are the only reliable ones.

 

[4v50 Gary]

At the Ruger Armourers' School, our instructor would never fess up to who made the magazines for Ruger. A couple of us did a side by side comparison between a Ruger magazine and a PMI mag. The only difference we could discern was the floorplate that was stamped with the Ruger chicken.

Gary G23 - side by side btwn PMI & Fed Ord please. I bought Fed Ord stuph back in the '70s and thought they were all junk.

 

[Gary G23]

Didn't you ever notice that Federal Ordnance and PMI had the same part numbers? Bill Ruger paid Federal Ordnance to stop making mags which they did for a year or so and then changed their name to PMI and started making them again. Believe it or not.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Whoa! Now that's a shocker to me Gary. Didn't know about stock #s and I've never seen a Fed Ord Mini14 mag.

Is the Fed Ord you're mentioning the same Fed Ord from California? If so, they finally got something right.

 

[Gary G23]

Yep. San Bernadino valley. I was a gun show dealer during those years and sold a lot of Fed Ord mags and then PMI mags.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Wow. Thank you Gary. I wonder if the Fed Ord mgmt changed or if a decent machinist (to make the dies) finally joined the company.

 

[benEzra]

Ram-Line 30-rd polymer "Combo Mags" (fit mini-14, AR-15, and AR-180) have been 100% reliable in my experience, except for one that had the spring in backwards (I turned the spring around and it has since worked fine). I also have one Triple K Brand steel magazine (30-rd) that has never failed to feed. Stay away from the nickel-plated 20-rounders sometimes seen at gun shows--I have tried two and neither one worked. I also had an Eagle brand 35-rounder that also fed flawlessly, but it developed stress cracks around the mag spring anchor rivets (Eagle mags use a coiled spring that anchors near the top of the mag and unwinds as the follower is pushed down).