Lots of good information and advice in this thread.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master"
I have found the Lancer L7AWMs to be very nice mags, and seem to be more solidly constructed than my Magpuls. Unfortunately, they have extremely high magazine spring tension, which means that unless very clean, hitting the bolt release or manually cycling the charging handle on my gun does not full strip a round, but instead it hangs halfway stripped with the BCG only halfway forward; as my upper is an SR-25, there is no forward assist to hit to seat the BCG. This is with a Slash Heavy Buffers XH Carbine Buffer and an Armalite EA1095 spring, and with a coil clipped off by Lancer (they offer this service if you're having issues with your L7AWMs). They say that the reason for such high magazine tension was for use in full-auto guns, which doesn't make much sense to me, as I'm not aware of any practical use for full auto on a .308 Win rifle with up to a 25 round mag, nor am I aware of any rifle used by the military that would be compatible with Lancer mags and have full auto functionality.
The Magpuls, on the other hand, take much longer to get dirty enough to have issues, but still far less rounds than my AR-15s, where the tops of the mags get dirty enough that the follower gets stuck and thus rounds fail to feed. So, I guess the reverse issue of the Lancer. FWIW, I also have compatibility issues with the Magpul PMAG M118LRs with my LMT MARS-H lower, as they do not drop free out without some sanding. Annoying, but it is what it is.
These issues may not manifest themselves very much if you're not shooting suppressed, I suppose? I certainly have found my 16" SR-25 suppressed with a SureFire SOCOM762-RC to get much dirtier much faster than my AR-15s also using full-sized SureFire cans, though my AR-15s are also running AGBs or gas port reduction inserts.
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Mine is a Gen2. I’m not really complaining about the accuracy as it seems to do fairly well with the right ammo and meets my expectations. That said it’s not going to outshoot my Remington PPS which seems to do well with any decent ammo I feed it. I think many people wanting to chase the AR10 pattern rabbit down the whole often have unrealistic impressions on what the gun is capable of (I know I did when I chased the M14 rabbit 20 some years ago).
I’ve been happy with my freedom week Magpul 20s. I did have a batch of “desert” MagPul 10s that I needed to file the locking tab on to get the to lock right. The have all been reliable.
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Any comments about the ruger762 or the sig716?