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Garand_Shooter
Take a few minutes to read this link below about the life of a magazine contract. You will find they they can run years past their date and the specs do change during the contract. You will also notice the date when the followers changed types.
[url]http://www.starpayn.com/asbca/49307.html[/url]
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Very interesting reading, thanks! It shows many interesting things, inlcuding why Labelle is no longer in business, it is a wonder they managed to get a contract at all!
Very interesting are the date of switchover in the spec to green followers of 1989 with delivery begining may 10 1990 (at that time this contract should have run its course but Labelles incompetence extended the delivery times.) and the fact that the contract was terminated before complete delivery, and also that Parsons made a large number of the Labelle mags, and Labelle made a number for FN.
But the most interesting thing is that this whole write up is about the very contract that this magazine in the bag was supposedly made under (contract date on bag was 87, as normal that was the year that first delivery was to be made), and this plainly states in many cases the mags were anodized. So now that we find in the official government document that any mags made under this contract were to be anodized, how much more can we debate about teflon?
It mentions that that Labelle had
"flush @ 400 ton," "scrap left and right halves" and "scrapped assemblies"
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Thats a lot of bad mags, I wonder where it all went?
Some very interesting questions arise from this document. Throughout the life of this contract, Labelle was unable to meet its contract requirments for delivery of magazines, and was consitantly shipping welll below the monthly amount required. They did manage to make some for FNMI despite this, and that was noted. But if they were constantly unable to meet thier production quota, where did they have the production cabability to make all these teflon mags?
The contract was terminated with 43,347 mags remaining, I wonder if the packagiung for these was already produced and was used to later pack up mags like these.
And finally, what ever happened to the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of out of spec mags the government rejected on this contract?