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Thread: Which AR-15 5.56 magazines are best?

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    Site Supporter Jay Cunningham's Avatar
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    My personal first choice will always be Colt/Okay/NHMTG which are all essentially the same magazine. Call me old school but I've been called a lot worse. Plain Jane black PMAGs seem to work fine too. D&H aren't bad magazines but if given a choice all things being equal I'd pick NHMTG. YMMV.

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    What about followers? I know Magpul has pretty much cornered the market. Are there different versions? I have about 20 orange MP followers in a box. They look like this:




    Current issue or trash bound?
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    We are fixing to have a good time here in the long gun forum because I'm about as green as it gets when it comes to carbines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erik View Post
    How are the Brownells magazines?
    Good to go.

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    Site Supporter Jay Cunningham's Avatar
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    I don't have any issue with the green followers, but I don't have any issue with the MagPul followers either. Brownell's magazines seem like pretty good magazines.

    Remember - treat all AR magazines like Bic lighters. Use them until they don't work, then throw them out and get a new one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Cunningham View Post

    Remember - treat all AR magazines like Bic lighters. Use them until they don't work, then throw them out and get a new one.
    This x1000. Don't fall in love with your gear. Maintain it, but at the end of the day, mags are expendable items. I crushed some of the USGI mags I was issued here, and replaced them with black PMAGs that ran 100% for the duration of my deployment.

    When they fail, chuck em.

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    Thanks for your help Gents!
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    Ha ha, good question. Realistically in a carbine class your absolute max load out would be something like ten 30 round magazines. If I'm rolling heavy with ammo I have 5 mags on me and one in the gun. This of course is just to keep the gun fed for drills.

    So six is a good minimum for me. But the more you have loaded, the less down time you have. I have 75 30 round NHMTG magazines because I bought them cheap and stacked them deep. They should last for the rest of my life.

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    I like Pmags and at least ten magazines for any platform.

    FWIW, last class I had a bunch (like 20ish) magazines loaded. It *really* allowed me to avoid the process of constantly jamming magazines during the breaks. Well worth the money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOM View Post
    Timely thread.

    I'm about to order 15 or so 30 rounders and 5 or so 20s.

    I'd like to stick with GI mags.

    NHMTG the way to go? what about D&H?
    NHMTG are the best alum's available for the money, IMO. They're the same quality as Okay/Colt. Inconsistent reports on D&H.

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