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Has anyone else ever had a crap Colt mag
11/10/2011 6:20:20 PM
I have a brand new Colt mag that is a piece. I don't know if it's the follower or the spring, but this thing will not feed a full mag without issue. For some reason rounds submarine in it causing them to get jammed in the mag. the bolt catches the the back of the round like it's supposed to and can't feed it because the nose is pushed down in the mag. Just thought I'd see if anyone else has had this problem. BTW I have 6 pmags that work flawlessly
11/10/2011 6:26:37 PM
WHAT TYPE OF AR15 ?
11/10/2011 6:29:39 PM
Does it have a black follower? Those things suck.
Try swapping it for a Magpul follower.
Try swapping it for a Magpul follower.
11/10/2011 6:39:42 PM
No, it has the green follower. It does the same thing out of a Del-Ton, Bushmaster and Rock River. It came with the Del-Ton rifle. It also does not drop freely consistently out of any of the rifles. It's Junk.
11/10/2011 6:43:33 PM
Yes I have had problems with magazines with the Colt name of them. It had bent feed lips (due to being dropped)
Life is too short to spend time fixing a bad magazine.
Throw it in the trash right now, good magazines are cheap. Why waste time with one that does not function 100%
and even if you got it to work would you ever trust it?
Unless the over all length of the ammo you are using is out of spec its a magazine problem.
Life is too short to spend time fixing a bad magazine.
Throw it in the trash right now, good magazines are cheap. Why waste time with one that does not function 100%
and even if you got it to work would you ever trust it?
Unless the over all length of the ammo you are using is out of spec its a magazine problem.
11/10/2011 6:46:10 PM
I had a Colt mag with a loose top weld at the seam and it would not insert easily or drop free when released.
I replaced all of my metal mags with PMAG's.
I replaced all of my metal mags with PMAG's.
11/10/2011 6:56:30 PM
Good point. I agree. It's going in the trash, I was just surprised by it.
11/10/2011 7:08:54 PM
I had a bad weld on a 20 rd. mag years ago. I just dropped it in the trash and never looked back. It is the only bad mag I have ever had regardless of manufacture.
11/10/2011 7:14:10 PM
Topic Moved
11/11/2011 8:01:10 AM
I have had bad mags, pmag, Colt, Okays, Adventureline, and a few others I don't remember.
They all end their existence the same way.
They all end their existence the same way.
11/11/2011 3:53:10 PM
Most of the Colt 20/ 30 rd mags I had in my last forty years with the AR platform had been great except for one, a 20 rd (with black follower) in '86 which was one of the two factory supplied mag with my new then AR-15A2 HBAR Sporter rifle.
It double feed with about 5 rounds remaining, the worst part was it happened to me twice during my first DCM (CMP now) rifle match that year, during the prone rapid fire stage, I had enough time to clear it then shoot the remaining rounds very quickly, then load and fire the round that I missed, before the cease fire signal.
I tried removing the rough surfaces/ edges but could not make it work right so I just save the components, flattened the mag body and dumped it.
It double feed with about 5 rounds remaining, the worst part was it happened to me twice during my first DCM (CMP now) rifle match that year, during the prone rapid fire stage, I had enough time to clear it then shoot the remaining rounds very quickly, then load and fire the round that I missed, before the cease fire signal.
I tried removing the rough surfaces/ edges but could not make it work right so I just save the components, flattened the mag body and dumped it.
11/11/2011 3:59:18 PM
I never had a single load issue with my old 20 round mags (aluminum followers) nor the 30 rounders (green followers); the easiedst way to find the bad mags is to always inspect them for things such as bent lips, cracked welds on the spine of the mag, dents on the body and check the tension on the springs. C Products sells spring kits for both 20 and 30 round mags and swapping followers with Magpul ones is about the best thing you can do to them, short of replacing them with P-Mags.
11/11/2011 7:55:01 PM
Originally Posted By BigJimboGee:
Good point. I agree. It's going in the trash, I was just surprised by it.
Good point. I agree. It's going in the trash, I was just surprised by it.
Ship it to me and Ill reimburse you the shipping cost.
11/14/2011 7:05:51 PM
I had one Colt 30 rounder I picked up from Apex that had spread out up by the feedlips enough to cause a problem dropping free on 4 of my ARs. The other 4 were fine. The other 20 or so didn't have any problems. I just use it with one of the ARs it drops free from at the range. 
