I am looking to get some more magazines for my MP-5.

Some of the korean knockoffs have been OK for me, but the HK mags are the best.

HK Parts Net. I bought theses which are authentic German made ones at sixty dollars before SH, the price went up to a hundred during the panic, now it's back down.

I suspect that HKparts.net is about to close.

Don't know if you consider $70 good or not.

If you own an actual MP5 then spending the scratch on OEM HK mags shouldn't be too big a deal for you.
Having said that, stick with the HK mags. I've never had a problem with HK OMG mags (one of my issued long guns is an HK MP5A3 and I've never seen one of our issued OEM magazines fail).

From the HK Forum.

 

The $18 Korean ATI mags from RTG work perfectly in my MP5. Zero malfunctions in over a thousand rounds since I bought it a few months ago.

 

That would be like installing parts from a Yugo onto a Bentley

When my wife was shooting in a match, actually YES!

Geco 9mm German manufactured 9mm.

At one point we had over thirty HK MP5 magazines and the uber rare, uber reliable C&S Metall-Werkes 72 round drum.

I run German mag on my MP5 Pistol; Ihave 15 rounders and 30 rounders. They all work flawlessly on mine.

http://www.robertrtg.com/store/pc/showsearchresults.asp?pageStyle=H&resultCnt=32&keyword=mp5+magazine

I have never had issue with the POF mags.

For  a while there, they were as cheap as the ATI/Korean mags.

I wasn't busting balls with my comments and I apologize if it came across that way.  I was issued 10 of the HK mags with my MP5 FR3 and between those and all of the others issued them , I haven't heard of any issues in over 10 years ( I'm an FI as well) other than one spring getting weak. (Range mag). The only maintenance done is to wipe down with an oily rag (or eauvilant  ) as part of monthly maintenance.

Who gives a shit as long as they work? And they DO work.



This guy gets it.

When I had to break out my MP-5N on duty, there was a damn good chance it might need to be used. I was not about to trust my life (or a hostages) life to to a CRAP magazine that might or might not feed the 115 gr. CorBon ammo we used for serious use. Your Korean crap might work on the range with ball ammo but you don't cut costs when someone's life is on the line!

We wouldn't even use the POF magazines.

I have a slew of POF mags that run flawlessly.  They're "cheap" at RTG Parts too.

Buy the best mags you can afford and that are available to you.  If availability allowed me to buy only HK new mags, I would.  Over the years, during periods of less than ideal supply of HK mags, I have purchased Korean ones, MKE polymer and metal, POF, and factory HK.  After years and thousands of rounds, I have found that the POF and MKE are on equal ground with HK, with the POFs actually a little nicer than the MKE.  The MKE polymer mags are great if your magwell is in spec.  If it is slightly out of spec, then they require some fitting.  The Korean ATI, Victory, KCI, (whatever name they are using) etc. are OK, but the springs are both short and a little weaker than "licensed" pattern and HK mags. If you have them, replace the springs with HK springs and the reliability goes way up.

If you can buy HK mags, then do so.  If not, get POF.

Genuine HK German magazines for my guns. They're not that expensive. For range work, a few beater ATIs or KCIs isn't a bad idea to save wear and tear on the good ones.
Early on I bought some used German mags, sold them during panics, bought more nice new ones when they passed.

Sort of off topic here, but as for HKparts.net, since it was ran by Adam himself, if I were to order a new part for one of my HKs, would it not get shipped or is someone else running the site now?

I ordered from them late last week, parts shipped same day, already arrived, no problemo

MAG HK MP5 HK94 9MM 30RD BL. $65 each

I did too, no problems.

shooting a Toad clone, I find most of the aftermarket mags, even the one Toad mag that came with the gun, usually work fine with 115gr ammo.   Its when you start introducing flat nose 147gr or hollow points is when issues might surface.

Don't have these issues with the German curved mags.

Agree.

Do they still have the straight stick mags around? I bought up a bunch of those about a decade ago and they always worked well for my HK-94.

HK hasn't made the straight mags for decades, but they're out there and work very well.  I own a dozen.

Contrary to others' experiences, I do get occasional feeding issues with the ATI korean imported curved 30s, but have never had a problem with HK straight or curved 30s.

I have about 20 of the ATI 30s on hand for backups when I do rentals on the MP5, but I'll only resort to them if I've been too busy to reload the HK mags between customers.  YMMV

Just an update.

I just ran two Korean mags through my POF 5 with zero problems.

That's the thing. Yes these are good range mags but try running over 200-500 through each mag and post an HONEST reply back here.
I have tried every Asian copy out there and ,YES, they will work: for a short time frame.
If you want reliability, then get HK MP5 mags.

What fails in the Asian mags? The spring, the feed lips, the body?

I meant to say that I have two Korean mags, I put about 100 rounds through each.

Double feeds for me - another round jumps out of the mag along with the one being chambered, preventing the bolt from closing.

The MKE polymer mags also work well: http://www.hkspecialiststore.com/product_detail.php?Category=26&Page_Number=&Index_Seq=634&Home_Page=Index.  Some guys have problems with out of spec mag wells, but they run great in all mine.

My friend's SW9 had some issues (also issues with HK factory mags fitting too tight and scraping the finish off), but the problem was a slightly concave (about 1.5mm) magwell where the front weld joined the flat.  A little work with a auto body tools and it was nice and straight.

The issue with Korean (KCI, Victory, ATI, etc.) is that the springs are far too short and a little soft.  They fail at around 400-500 rounds by not feeding the last two rounds, then by 1000 rounds they double feed or don't feed at all.  if you replace the springs with HK springs and they work fine.  But then you're into the same cost as POF mags that work great and are reliable out of the box.  I have one KCI mag that has around 5000+ rounds through it after replacing the spring and it is still fine.  I only use it as a training mag, but it is functional.  If  they are $9 or $7, like Botach and CDNN did for a while, I would buy some more just to have them and turn a profit when Hillary 2016 starts ramping up.  At $20+ it is a false economy over $24 for MKE and $27 (if you buy 8 or more) for POF.  Another issue with Korean mags is that some of them have a very heavy finish, where oil and a scotch brite pad takes care of that pretty quickly.

I have had HK MP5 pattern stuff for many, many years, and have a ton of factory mags bought back in the 80's and early 90's, and have been fortunate enough to get a few from some agencies where friends work when they got out of the MP5 platform.  For new mags, at this point, I buy POF mags and MKE polymer for new ones and keep rebuilding my old HK mags.  It is hard to justify $70 for a new HK mag when the POFs are perfect and the MKEs work fine; and the factory HK mags used to cost $20 way back when.  I have found that with frangible ammo, the MKEs work a little better than anything else as they feed the odd truncated cone profile a little more reliably due to the shape of the little "feed ramp" on the front of them.  I have never had feed lip problems with any mags since I am always firing brass cased ammo and never steel case, which reportedly wears hard on the feed lips.  I reload and have reloaded for years, so steel case has never had any attraction for 9mm, and mags also get rotated regularly to minimize individual wear.  If your mag catch spring is nice and firm (it is a wear item that you should replace periodically), you don't get the carrier rubbing on the feed lips with any ferocity.

I was planning on doing a comparison video between factory mags, a Toad clone mag, an ATI mag and a POF mag.



My ATI mag clearly has a sub-par spring. When disassembling it the floor plate somehow managed to rotate and slide down the mag body, bending the spring a little bit on the process. I think that floorplate has some out of specs dimensions for sure. The POF mags are much closer to HK factory mags, but all of the mags I received have floorplates that must be coaxed back into position. They do not slide freely to the bottom of the mag to lock the tabs in place. If it's not properly locked in the bottom, the mag doesn't hold 30 rounds.  



It's super expensive these days to "only buy German" and get a good mag stash going. I think the POF mags are fine, but mine don't seem to be as good as factory mags. For half the price of OEM mags, I can learn to live with the quirks, but they're definitely not the same.

More Korean Mags for me!


Also, my offer to pay shipping to take those shitty Korean mags off of people's hands still stands

I took 0000 steel wool and CLP, and rubbed the outside of the clone mags (parked) smooth, mostly just for aesthetics, but it really got the CLP in there. I did the inside also as best I could, but then ran rags through, trying to remove as much CLP from there as possible. I don't know if that affected my mags' reliability, but I'm sure it didn't hurt. I've honestly had no problems. This includes full-auto.

I got seven H&K mags for my Vector MP-5 SBR; I had to send it back to Vector because the mags would not lock I to mag well. The gun works great now, no problems with OEM mags. I heard a lot of good things about the MKE mags, especially since they are built using H&K tooling. Mixed results on the ATI Korean Mags.