Western Metal Products Mags: Any Good?

gunpaq

September 08, 2002 20:58

Considering ordering some extra mags for my Ruger 9mm pistols and Mini 14. Are those Western Metal Products after market mags from Wilson Mags worth getting and are there better ones at a reasonable price? How is the reliability and quality.....any experience? Thanks.

Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.

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  lrarmsx

  September 09, 2002 07:21

  I've had problems with them. Their steel is thin and the feed lips fragile. They're cheap...., but they're CHEAP. As for other options USA's are believe or not actually better, but I still wouldn't consider them a good choice. The PMI ones are good-excellent, but expensive. Then again, which is worse spending $60 on (4 @ $15 each) 30rd mags that don't work or $50-60 on one 30rd mag that does? You decide.
  
  If it is 8 years after the ban and a place has thousands of a high capacity magazines left for very cheap prices, do you think that they are good or just cheap? If they were actually good, they'd either be out of them by now or charging more money. Over the last 8 years people would have bought a couple of them and then re-ordered a lot more because they worked so well. Instead people bought them cheaply and figure even though they don't work, at least they didn't cost much, but I'm not ordering more. Hence they still have a lot left at the supplier.

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  HighNoon

  September 09, 2002 07:26

  I bought some for my Mini-14 and had nothing but trouble. The Ramline plastic ones feed better but still aren't the answer.

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  William81

  September 09, 2002 07:52

  I bought my first Mini almost 16 years ago and currently have two of them. My experience with the after market Mags have been very mixed. The USA's are real hit and miss...Westerns were poor overall. The Plastic ones worked ok but seemed to wear out or break after moderate use. PMI and Ruger Factory Mags are the only ones that were trouble free. Good luck with your choice.
  
  Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
  
  Edited by - william81 on 09/09/2002 12:22:34

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  interstatepawnllc

  September 09, 2002 18:51

  Garbage.

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  fergusonmorse392

  September 09, 2002 20:16

  if you are talking HI-CAP try one of ea in USA, for standard 5 or 10 rd stick with Ruger. if you have big bucks try to find Ruger pre-ban HI-CAPS.

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  gunpaq

  September 10, 2002 17:52

  Thanks for the info. Going to go for the quality mags.
  
  Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.

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  RugerNiner

  September 10, 2002 18:07

  What does PMI stand for?
  
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  austin247

  September 10, 2002 20:04

  Many aftermarket mag manufacturers turned out magazine bodies as fast as they could with minimal or no quality control after the hi-cap ban was announced, and before it became law. A hi-cap body can be assembled into a hi-cap magazine after the ban, thus many manufacturers used the cheapest, quickest processes to turn out as many mag bodies as possible. This is why there are still so many aftermarket hi-cap mags floating around, and why they are for the most part, by common consensus, junk.
  
  PMI stands for Precision Metal Industries. Some not-so-scrupulous sellers have listed ProMag magazines as PMI; however, they are completely different manufacturers.

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  leeblackman

  September 21, 2002 03:23

  u know, I was going to post the exact same question posted in this topic, then I decided to run a search to see if someone else did, and sure enough I found it. I was really, really hoping to hear that the mags were decent, because of the ungodly price of USGI mags, but of coarse I heard what my common sense was telling me, that they were junk, oh well, that sucks...
  
  If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.
  
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  gmayes

  September 21, 2002 06:43

  I haven't been able to find any good mags for my mini but i'll keep looking and let you know if i do.

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  Nighthawk

  September 21, 2002 07:16

  I have several John Mason mags and there good mags,their heavy compaired to most.I paid more than I would like but they were worth it.Theres only one catch,I have two mini-14s in 223 the Mags fit one but wont fit the other? there both the same series.I also have a Mini-14 222.The mags for it came with it Im not sure of brand but their good mags.
  
  Rugster
  
  
  Toujours Pret

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  gmayes

  September 21, 2002 07:18

  Rugster where did you get those John Mason Mags? Thanks

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