"I'd say that your personal experience with what you characterize as very well used and perhaps abused mags have, at best, limited bearing on the general situation.
BTW, I'm curious, are you the same Cool Hand Luke who posts (or used to post) on Assaultweb?"
So that's what this has been about. You have an agenda with someone else! {Sounds like an Axe to grind too, from the above}
Don't know anything about "Assaultweb", never looked at it or knew of it, much less posted anything on it using any handle, including the one am using here.
No more time to indulge in this nonproductive, ego driven, emotionally negative stuff either....
"Do some research. I'm not guessing or repeating what I've heard--I own a bunch of non-drop free mags."