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Posted: 4/3/2007 12:48:12 PM EDT
| I just got some 30 round stainless steel black mags from magpul with the magpul followers. I used them for the first time at the range this afternoon and, in each one, after firing a few rounds, the followers kept getting stuck halfway down the magazine. In my standard USGI mags with the green followers, I had no problems at all. I'm new to black rifles, so any tips to fix the mags would be greatly appreciated. |
Good advice, also get with whoever you bought them from and they will most likely make it right. Since you are new to the AR-15 I would avoid some of the newer whiz-bang mag styles (SS, PMAG, all the various followers, CS springs, etc.) and just order yourself 10 good GI mags from a source such as ammoman.com. Nothing wrong with the newer stuff, much of it is good but alot of it is not nearly as proven, either. Get some Okay, Center Industries, D&H, or NHMTG mags and see if you have any problems with them. I would build up a good collection of plain 30 round GI mags because regardless of what you may have been told, they work pretty darn well for most of us. Then you can venture out into the more exotic stuff once you know you have a pile of mags you can depend on. Unsolicited advice, but you got it anyway! 
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| Thanks for the advice everyone. And Blacksnake, although the advice was unsolicited, it is MUCH appreciated. I've found that on this website, the unsolicited info is often the best and most reliable. And if nothing else, it provides another opinion, which can never hurt. I will try the ruler test and let you know the results. Also, I do have 1 NHMTG mag (with the green follower), which works fine. |
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I've got mags from all different manufacturers currently and I've used whatever my supply SGT handed me for over 22 years. EVERYTHING breaks. EVERYONE turns out shit at one point or another, low bidder or not. A very good friend of mine taught me to test everything I got issued many years ago. When I met him he was a Staff Sergeant that had spent all of his time in either the 2nd Ranger Bn. or the 82nd Airborne so he had a clue or two. He taught me to test mags by repeatedly depressing the follower with a pencil or dowel pushing down in the middle of the follower. That was in the days of 20 round issue mags. He didn't believe in leaving anything to chance. Over the years I've developed my own "process" based on his. I started using it when they came up with 30 rounders and I still use it. Now I use a paint stir stick. The nice lady at our local Home Depot gave me a heavy duty one free for the asking. I put the stick in the middle of the follower and push it to the bottom and let it go. I do that about 20 times per mag. If it sticks I find out quick and can evaluate the problem. If I can't fix it I send it back. Doing that is like loading and rapidly unloading each mag that many times. Sure saves on ammo and I think it breaks in the follower, "wears" it in to fit and function. I do that to all of my AR mags and my M1A mags. It works for me. I've also added MagPul Gen II followers to all of my mags. They're the only ones I trust. Try pushing down on the very front of a green "no tilt" follower. You'll be surprised at how "no tilt" they aren't. Just my opinion and technique. |
Go buy some old beat up USGI 20 rounders from a surplus store. No testing is required, they will work. No doubt they have been tested time and time again. If they didn't function they would have been sh--canned by now. Plus, they have "military experience" which counts for so much these days.
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To be honest I think the Green follower's are advertised as "anti-tilt" not "no tilt" but I know what you're saying. |
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