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Posted: 11/29/2007 7:47:56 PM EDT
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dont know if this has been covered before, but why are mags color coded, and what are they color coded with? electrical tape? http://www.stagarms.com/images/12.jpg http://www.stagarms.com/images/8.jpg thanks, Moulton |
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Can't on exactly why those mags are color coded, but one way or another, color coding is a personal thing anyways. You could color code magazines for whatever reason you mind can think of. As to how they're color coded, those look like colored electrical tape. Colored 90mph tape is also sold, plus they, or a part of them, can be painted, as well. My kit currently includes two magazines marked with red electrical tape, one is marked: 30 M856 B-T, and the other is marked 29 M856 B-T.  ~Augee |
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, I've wrapped the base of my Mini 14 mags with silver duct tape...
Sorry, It just says that one magazine is loaded with 30 rounds of M856 tracers, the other, a USGI aluminium with a Ranger Plate on it can only take 29 rounds, or it won't seat. The B-T thing is an armor joke, since much of my platoon is former tankers, we're a CAV unit by organization, but we've got Scouts, Infantry, and Tankers, and some other odd MOS's wrapped into one. The "B-T" means "Ball with Tracer," and it's a little joke that refers to the former Armor crewmen we have, who are used to their rounds being marked with things like: "APFSDS-T" meaning "Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Tracer." Classifying 5.56 the same way, though, and the best you can come up with is "B" in the case of M855, or "B-T" in the case of M856. ~Augee |
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I am not going to commit on how they look like a para military organization. I know some units tape red for live ammo and blue for blanks. We did that for exercises. We had one kid with a red marked Mag and I started bitching at him eventhough he had blanks in there. |
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