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Posted: 12/12/2005 1:17:09 AM EDT
[#1]
A pic would sure be nice.
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Posted: 12/12/2005 3:12:49 AM EDT
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Cabelas is not an AR store, there bread and butter is for hunters. I would not buy any AR type gear from there.
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Posted: 12/12/2005 1:50:08 PM EDT
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ill see what i can do tonight |
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Posted: 12/12/2005 4:42:50 PM EDT
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I seen some of the mags you are talking about at a gunshow once. Steel mags with a black/blued finish and Colt floorplates.
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Posted: 12/12/2005 5:02:06 PM EDT
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I'll bet the ones your friend bought aren't real colt floorplates, but are in fact USA Mag floorplates. Colt floorplates have the prancing pony logo and say Hartford, CT and the caliber (either .223 or 5.56) or something to that effect. There are a number of different versions.
The USA crap mags say: COLT AR-15 Made in USA Many people mistake this for a Colt floorplate and buy it thinking it is USGI and made by Colt. USA probably did this on purpose to confuse people and sell their crap.. |
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Posted: 12/12/2005 5:05:41 PM EDT
[#6]
Tag for pics
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Posted: 12/12/2005 5:25:30 PM EDT
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nope these have the colt prancing horse and all, when i get home tonight ill take some pics |
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Posted: 12/12/2005 5:26:28 PM EDT
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I can see buying them at a gunshow, but why the heck would cabellas do this? |
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Posted: 12/12/2005 5:49:38 PM EDT
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I've seen it at gunshows where the floorplates have been replaced with various makes besides Colt, but I agree, how could Cabella's do it, unless they got taken too. |
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Posted: 12/12/2005 6:24:47 PM EDT
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Being that cabellas is a large mail order (hell, their stores are big too), they probably just bought a buch of lots of them from USA because they were cheap to get in. They probably don't know anything about ar-15/care about ar-15 parts. USA probably just stamped them that way to fool unsuspecting gun buyers who didn't know any better. On the other hand, if cabellas did that on purpose/using it as advertising, then I am sorely dissapointed in a once interesting and pretty well stocked hunter's paradise.
$25 is more than double what a good USGI costs  anyhow.....makes you wonder what cabellas is thinking (if they are, probably didn't put much thought into ar-15 mags when they have soooo many other items in their catalogue.
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Posted: 12/13/2005 12:41:19 PM EDT
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I bought a 40 round AR15 magazine from Cabela's just for fun. It was marked Colt AR15 40 round magazine on the package. It was black, with green follower...not the milspec green follower, but a variation of the old follower dyed green. The magazine appears to be a loose copy of the Sterling AR180/AR15 magazine since it appeared to be notched for both guns. I don't have an AR180, so I don't know if it works or not....the magazine was too tall to lock up in my Armalite, so I didn't even get to prove that it was junk. I thought I could salvage the spring and follower to make a frankenmag but both are non standard and junky. The floor plate was blank, meaning it did not have a Colt logo floor plate. The package did say COLT AR15 40 round magazine, though. There are no markings of any kind of these magazines. especially Colt markings. Its possible that he or another switched the floorplates for some unknown reason, possibly to defraud the ignorant?
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Posted: 12/13/2005 3:20:11 PM EDT
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thats a negative on him swithcing the floor plates, he is a fellow officer and has no clue what he has. When i get a chance to take pics, (supposed to last night but didnt) ill show you. they are original Colt floorplates. |
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Posted: 12/14/2005 5:30:17 PM EDT
[#13]
tagged out of idle curiousity....
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Posted: 12/14/2005 5:33:12 PM EDT
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Return them. They will take it back and find out why they have Colt plates on them.
Last time I bought mags from them, they were NHTMG mags. I don't pay retail 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:10:58 PM EDT
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PHOTOS ARE NOW ADDED IN ORIGINAL POST!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:30:15 PM EDT
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Thanks for the pics!
They sure ain't like none of the USA Mags I've seen, for 2 reasons. The USA Brand mags I've seen have a round hole near the mag catch slot. Also, the USA Mags only have around 5 (or so) weld spots. From what I can make out, it appears that those mags have about 9 welds. So, it doesn't appear to be a USA mag with replaced floorplates. I don't know what to tell you beyond that. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:48:19 PM EDT
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any date codes or cage codes on them???
definetly edon't look like USA mags. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:56:53 PM EDT
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i am relatively new to all the finer points of the ar15 world, so please bear with me. are steel mags not good, or was it just that your friend got CRAPPY steel mags. i know of the mag topic on this website, and plan to buy some USGI mags in the near future, but was just wondering about the steel mag question....
also, where are good place to get mags? They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:05:11 PM EDT
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Hmmm.... Taiwanese mags with a colt licenced floorplate?
Supposedly these mags are built to colt standards and design, just out of steel instead of aluminum. They are supposed to be mil-spec.... for Taiwan :) |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:50:58 PM EDT
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No just plain ol steel mags no markings , just colt floor plates, I just dont understand how cabellas would ship these like that or how they got em. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 10:39:05 PM EDT
[#21]
Yep, saw those exact kind at a gunshow. My guess is they are Taiwanese or something with Colt floorplates.
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Posted: 12/16/2005 5:43:27 AM EDT
[#22]
ya but the kicker is, these are not gunshow specials. these are cabellas. 25.00 a pop back in june. my friend ordered them online from cabellas. Little too late to return them i imagine. |
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Posted: 12/16/2005 9:01:06 AM EDT
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never too late to return them. Cabelas has a very liberal return policy and if the product is fishy they will take it back |
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Posted: 12/16/2005 10:57:13 AM EDT
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Know what the stock numbers is? I would like to get a couple just because.
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Posted: 12/16/2005 11:20:02 AM EDT
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what for?? |
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Posted: 12/16/2005 11:23:31 AM EDT
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I've seen those ads, they typically say COLT AR15 MARKED MAGS - they could always claim that it denotes the weapon the mags are for, and your friend is SOL......
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Posted: 12/16/2005 12:33:12 PM EDT
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I would like to have a steel factory mag with a Colt base plate. Cabelas has more than one brand of AR mag and with out the correct stock number I might get the Western metal or the Triple K ones they sell. |
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Posted: 12/16/2005 3:04:14 PM EDT
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Oh I know, that's what is so shitty about it.
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Posted: 12/17/2005 9:11:40 AM EDT
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couple of years ago, I bought one 40 rd'er from Cabela's. it was crap. fit very tight. fired one mag full out of it. took it back. full refund. always keep your reciept...
black steel with funky green follower. |
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