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Posted: 2/16/2008 12:21:16 PM EDT
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Okay, I haven't been into retro mags until now. I shoot with HK 416 maritime mags, and love them. Now I've decided to break down and get some retro mags. I have 5 Adventure Lines, 3 Universals, 4 Colt marked 5.56 and 4 Colt .223. I don't plan to shoot them much, since I have a dozen of the HK's and about a dozen asian steel mags I use. Here are the questions: 1. As you can see, some of them are pretty beat. Should I refinish them, or keep them like they are for the sake of originality? 2. Two of the Colt 5.56 mags have black followers, all of the others have alloy. Should I replace the black followers with alloy ones from 44MAG? 3. What is the long mag top right in the pic below? It has a Colt 5.56 base plate and a green follower, but it is longer than the others. Thanks 
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Colt made 20s in the 80s with black followers. I dont know when they started. There is a product called permasilk G. I refinished all my mags in that. That is the original finish from the factory and looks great. I kept the ones I thaught could have some importance in original finish. The others look new now lol William |
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The #1 thing about collecting is: original condition untouched is going to get Premium prices. Once something is refinished you'll never be able to get full price value. Yes I know 20rd Mags are nothing amazely special at the present time but they will be in the future when our kids are collecting AR15's instead of M1 Garands or M1911's like us. Parts for M1 Garands are sky rocketing... and M14 items are starting to dry up and older AR items are starting to get noticed and documented... which leads us to this retro forum  If I was you I would use the beat up mags and keep the minty mags in the safe. my .02 cents |
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+1 for Leave 'em be. Please check out that longer mag again and see if it holds 25 rds. Base plate and followers are quite often changed, so those might not be original to mag. I've only seen one original 25 rounder in the flesh, but it's many yesrs ago and I don't recall if it has a floor plate like the original waffle mag or like the newer 20 rounders. 25 rounders are somewhat rare. |
looks like a new production colt 20 rd LE mag that comes with every new colt rifle. |
Bump for morning crew. Any one? |
All three of my Universal mags are marked like that. Excuse me for being ignorant, is there another way for Universals to be marked? |
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