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AR-15 magazine opinions please...

quickmajik
I'll ad mine. You add yours, and we might learn something new, I'm going to be bying another lot of mags soon, so any input is good input..

the bulk of my mags no are CProduct stainless steel 30 rounders with AT followers... they are great.. i have sampled the Lancer L5, Pmag, and Fussil... Out of these three I have found the L5 and fussil to be exceptable...

I am planning to buy a lot of mags, either the fussil or L5, right now I am leaning towards the L5 decisively, because of its flex and that fact its follower is good when it comes to long periods of storage loaded without feed lip distortion or stress..

Any info on brands and your impressions of long term loaded storage of them and spring life, as in how many reloads they can take before fatigue would be good info..

Thanks, happy Thanksgiven...
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  • vicg1
    recent SGN or GunDigest had a complete review of mags... and the flimsy feeling Lancer came out on top!
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  • gap1916
    I like the Orlite mags. My 2 cents [8D]
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  • dcs shooters
    In my opinion the Pmags are the best I've used. Some DPMS I have that come with the rifles work good also. I've found that the followers make the difference, not the bodys.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by vicg1
    recent SGN or GunDigest had a complete review of mags... and the flimsy feeling Lancer came out on top!


    the Brownell aluminum mags did very well as well
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  • armilite
    See the Nov. 20th issue of the Shotgun news they did a torture test of the most popular mags.
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  • quickmajik
    I'm not surprised by the Lancers performance, I have done some of my own torture testing.


    The pmags aint all they are cracked up to be,JMHO, but they werent designed to be, they are training mags.
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  • shoff14
    As much as I like Pmags, the engineer in me doesn't like the long term storage idea with plastics.

    Most polymors are used at temperatures above their glass temperature. Not knowing what material Lacners, or Pmags are made out of, I would be sure their glass temperature is in the -50 degree C or lower range. Obviously plastic is brittle in that temperature range. However, any constant loads that are put on plastic at temperatures above their glass temperature range there will be stress relation and creep in the plastic. This means that polymors under constant loads above glass temperature are straining to a certain point, then the stress relaxes. The polymer is basically losing strength, over time.

    Some polymers also have problems with impact toughness. Pmags might be popular with our troops in the deserts, but I would bet that if we were fighting in a Russian winter, they wouldn't be using Pmags.

    So if I was putting away some magazines loaded, for long term storage for SHTF, they would be aluminum or steel.
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