On Memorial day, a member of another fourm I frequent posted up a Safariland mag doubler for the first active duty member to post up. I was the lucky winner. While I had never considered a mag doubler, I figured free stuff is free stuff, why not give it a shot to see how it is. Fast forward to today, and I tripped over a box on the front porch while heading out to the garage to get my jeep ready to tow to my new house. Normally I would leave a blue cloud hanging over the town when I trip over something, but not so when it's a box on the porch. Box on the porch means cool stuff arriving, and thankfully, the Safariland mag doubler falls into this catagory.
Lets get to the good stuff, PICS!
The Safariland mag doubler is designed to keep the mags at different heights, this keeps the bottom height of the mags the same while allowing easy loading, which is why the spare mag looks so high on the reciever in the pics. The mags are well supported, and quite solid in the doubler, very little if any movement between the two during reloads. An extra feature is the top round holder which is the plastic pieces attached by the rubber bands in the pics. These replace the top round in the spare mag (or primary mag if you have them in a pouch) to keep the top round from becoming dislodged by movement and interfering with loading. The top round holders fit under the feed lips of the mag and replace the top round, they are easily dislodged from the mag to allow reloads by simply tripping them down and forward with the weak hand thumb. Reloads are quick and easy with this setup, even for someone like me who has done little to no reloading drills with an AR. Product is solid and well though out, 4
out of 5
overall. Only detraction is it will not work with P-mags, but that makes the GI style mags I have a more necessary part of my safe contents since they had been relegated to space fillers since I started using the P-mags.
Overall I'm impressed with the mag doubler, having never considered one before I'm sold on it as a viable method of carrying a second mag on the rifle and being a quick and easy reload tool.