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Posted: 1/15/2005 12:03:58 AM EDT
| I was shooting my AR today and had a problem with my mag. After I was done with 30 rounds the bolt closed and crushed my follower. The follower is in 6 or so pieces and the spring managed to ride over the bolt and stopped it midway. The spring is slightly bent but looks serviceable, should I replace the spring and follower? What would cause a failure like this? What kind of follower/spring should I get? |
| I'm definately going to replace the follower. I asked if I should replace both the spring and follower. Somehow the follower got out of the mag body and got shattered (I don't how dut it did). I believe the bolt hit the follower which explains the lack of holding open and a shattered follower. Part of the follower was above the bolt and other pieces were inside the mag. I just want to know what kind or brand of follower is recommended. The mag was purchased at a gun show and only had a "england" sticker on it. The mag plate has no marking of any kind and it has a grey finish and is aluminum. The follower was black plastic. |
| I searched around for magpuls and found that botach has them cheapest at $5.95 plus $1 shipping. Has anyone ever dealt with botach and was it a good/bad experience? Anybody know of a good source of single mag springs? Here is the link to botach: store.botachtactical.com/maenselefo3.html |
Weird....
How ever I am in a crappy mood tonight , so I would like to do something nice . If you IM me your name and address I will mail you a new orange GI follower at no cost to you . |
| When I replaced the followers in the grey England mags I bought I noticed one of the original followers had cracked almost into near the front of the rasied portion from the spring pushing on it over time. When I broke it the rest of the way into the plastic was dry looking. The mags were new I had never used them either. |
I asked the same question about botach and received a lot of responses saying not to use botach. Why don't you look in the EE, there are 5 or so sight supporters that carry the magpul followers. www.ar15.com/forums/forum.html?b=7&f=25&page=1 |
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