AR-15 mags - thinking of picking up a few more
Are there specific brands you all recommend or avoid?
AR-15 mags - thinking of picking up a few more
Pmags or Brownells if you want metal.
I'm still using surplus Adventure Line mags from the 70s - they outlasted most of my Colt mags of similar vintage.
AR-15 mags - thinking of picking up a few more
by Slow Hand 
, Indiana, Wednesday, February 06, 2019, 04:19 (2118 days ago) @ John K.
I bought a handful of Brownells 20 rounders a few years back because my .300 subsonic ammo feeds better from them. They are good, solid mags and have served me well.
Hard to go wrong with PMags, I’ve got a few .50 cal ammo cans full of them.
Honestly when it comes to metal mags, I’ve had goos luck with pretty much any USGI mag, new or surplus.
I’ve had good luck with CProductsas well.
Aluminum
https://aimsurplus.com/c-products-ar15-m16-30rd-223-5-56-aluminum-at-rifle-mag/
Or stainless steel
https://aimsurplus.com/c-products-ar15-30rd-223-5-56-ss-magazine/
AR-15 mags -
by Gunner , St Louis, Tuesday, February 05, 2019, 21:54 (2118 days ago) @ stonewalrus
What not to buy, not sure.
What to buy? Easy answer.....Pmag.
Haven't bought anything else in years.
Gunner
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AR-15 mags - thinking of picking up a few more
by bj , Wednesday, February 06, 2019, 20:01 (2117 days ago) @ stonewalrus
Circle K GI contract mags were supposed to be good (aluminum). What I read was that the government would award contracts to disadvantaged companies, they would make so much money that they weren't disadvantaged anymore, so the contract would go to the next company, and so forth. I don't recall any that were known to be bad, but I've seen recommendations to use certain types of followers.
a year or two ago the Marine Corps tested...
Every M16 magazine in existence, and are buying M3 PMAGs. You may find that instructive.
Another neat use of pmags is to color code your AR rifle
Furniture by caliber. For instance, black for 556, tan for 300blk and then follow the same pattern with mags.
And yes, under certain conditions a 300blk will chamber and fire in a 556 chamber. Creates interesting rifle wreckage.
AR disassembly
by bj , Thursday, February 07, 2019, 20:13 (2116 days ago) @ John K.
At a range where I travel to for matches occasionally, one of the members tells of a new member, and brand new handloader, that loaded his first batch of .223 with 25 grains of Titegroup. We can all try to guess the end result, although from further descriptions it went well beyond what I could guess. Thankfully the shooter was not injured.