Who manufactured the stripped lower it was built from?Originally Posted by Jim Watson
Who manufactured the stripped lower it was built from?
Beats me, it had some sort of artsy squiggle logo. I could make out Arizona.
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Started and stopped several replies, but nutshell: Of the latest revisions of the major mags there really isn't a bad choice to make, only degrees of better.
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He probably had Gen 1 or Gen 2 PMAGs. They have a thicker body that is purposely intended to fit tighter than USGI or Gen 3 PMAGs. Magpul designed the mags this way to reduce the ingress of dust during field operations....at least, this is how a Magpul rep explained it to me at an expo in 2008 when he was handing out free mags. HK went about this problem their own way, by undersizing the mag well to make USGI mags fit a little tighter to reduce debris ingress....meaning the PMAGs wouldn't fit, so they came out with the EMAG and Gen 3 PMAG which has a slimmer body to allow seating in the tighter magwell.
ETA: Just to be clear I'm not saying your buddy has an HK, but some manufacturers do intentionally make their magwells tighter...and even among those that don't, one example might be particularly tighter than another if using the earlier PMAGs.
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One of my many gripes toward the HK416 was its peculiarities toward magazines. Im sure that reasoning makes sense to the no compromise engineers. But when you get boxes of mags, and have to go through them to see what ones fit.
HK mags also always fit fine in 416s, so do they not do the dust thing with their own stuff?
Cost outweighs the miniscule benefit.
Some industry types had relayed to me, the increased wall thickness was to compensate for the fact the tan and green dye being used in PMAGs degraded the durability of the plastic, so they had to beef it up.
got one of the many spam emails from Magpul the other day that no amount of smashing "unsubscribe" seems to dissuade, and I saw that they have a 60 rounder, which got me to thinking about this thread and the 60 round Surefire mag they sent me some 10+ years ago it seems like.
Stepping up from the 30s, what's the going suggestion for the 60s?
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The Magpul D60 drum seems to be the go-to 60 round magazine. I don’t have one, I also only have the Surefire. I haven’t put many rounds through it so I can’t speak to its reliability. I have heard of more issues with the Surefire than the Magpul though.
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I remember reading about Pmags not dropping free and it was blamed on the mags and out of spec lowers or overloaded or counterfeit mags. If Magpul designed them to seal out dust, they sure were quiet about it.
I'd still favor a redimag, and two good 30 rounders, over a single 60. Not an answer to your question, I know
I would too, and my suppressed ninja gun collecting dust in the safe wears a RM & two 30-round NHMTGs with 28 rounds each of something or other...
But outside of that, 60 round mags are fun, and if they run they are more fun, and if they run when they are fun they may be more likely to get some "serious use".
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