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Posted: 3/7/2013 5:22:02 AM EDT
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Are these made by someone else or actually by "Red Jacket"?
I checked them out at Academy, except the green follower, they seemed decent but expensive for $25. What's up w these mags? |
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Are these made by someone else or actually by "Red Jacket"? I checked them out at Academy, except the green follower, they seemed decent but expensive for $25. What's up w these mags? This is a personal bias. Don't mean to put it on you but I would not buy anything with the branding of Red Jacket. Use google to figure it out. Red Jacket products are not something I'm interested in. |
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This is a personal bias. Don't mean to put it on you but I would not buy anything with the branding of Red Jacket. Use google to figure it out. Red Jacket products are not something I'm interested in.
I know they have a rough reputation and the TV show doesn't help. I'm not in the market for AR mags. I just had never seen them before and wanted to know what was up with them: do they make their own? they contract with a defense contractor to have runs made for them? were they reliable? Just strange for me to see them at Academy Sports but never had read about them on the ultranet. Are they new new? For $25 I think you can get PMags on gunbroker, or not much more than that anyways. |
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I have been seeing them for a couple months on sportsmansguide. I know they had/have a deal with academy. That is too bad for academy. If you buy some maybe let us know how they perform. I just know for me and my money we will not be going down any Red Jacket roads. I thought the show was entertaining at first until it turned into a soap opera. Not 100% sure but I heard it had been cancelled. Maybe the ATF took their license to make tv shows too??? LOL
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This is a personal bias. Don't mean to put it on you but I would not buy anything with the branding of Red Jacket. Use google to figure it out. Red Jacket products are not something I'm interested in.
I know they have a rough reputation and the TV show doesn't help. I'm not in the market for AR mags. I just had never seen them before and wanted to know what was up with them: do they make their own? they contract with a defense contractor to have runs made for them? were they reliable? Just strange for me to see them at Academy Sports but never had read about them on the ultranet. Are they new new? For $25 I think you can get PMags on gunbroker, or not much more than that anyways. |
| I doubt that RJ is a magazine manufacturer. They most likely have mags 'stenciled' with their brand by a mag maker. Consequently, as a 'middle man', they have to raise the price to make a profit on them. To be fair, sometimes this process can involve modifications or 'enhanced features' to a product that are not generally found elsewhere. I doubt that in this case but I've never seen a RJ mag so I can't say one way or the other. |
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I agree with you and figured that from the start. But in my opinion just one more reason not buy them. Been a lot of D&H mags out lately, as well as some polymer's. No reason to pay their light bill.
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I doubt that RJ is a magazine manufacturer. They most likely have mags 'stenciled' with their brand by a mag maker. Consequently, as a 'middle man', they have to raise the price to make a profit on them. To be fair, sometimes this process can involve modifications or 'enhanced features' to a product that are not generally found elsewhere. I doubt that in this case but I've never seen a RJ mag so I can't say one way or the other. |
| They didn't look special. Looked like a GI mag. Green follower. Base plate had the Red Jacket brand on it. I didn't closely examine the mag welds or anything. More of one of those, "what is that?" (receives mag from sales kid, looks at briefly, here's it's Red Jacket and $25) "Here you go, thanks" (hands mag back) |
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Red Jacket = Ridiculous Joke = Rusty Junk To bad Academy got suckered in by their BS. Any gunsmith or LGS who spray paints a rifle from a can and spoofs it off as "custom one of a kind" on semi-national tv...is a f*&^ing joke. Sorry, but from the first and very few times I tried to watch that show, after seeing the ridiculous excuse for a custom AR they built for some dumb firearms instructor expert, I knew the show was exclusively made for tv, and will do little for th eindustry. They do not make their own mags. Manufacturing mags requires heavy and expensive metal stamping machinery, and then dangerous fmetal prep, coaing, and finishing works. No damn way their shop could do anything more than engrave and spray paint them. Should you trust their mags? Watch the show and ask yourself if you'd trust them to build your next $3000 custom AR. |
| To follow up on this, I happened to catch them in stock at sportsmans guide and ordered because 30 round mag. Got it in last week and not a single thing on it shows its a RJ item. The base is stamped for some factory in CT. Will post the actual manufacturer when I get home this evening. |
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Are these made by someone else or actually by "Red Jacket"? I checked them out at Academy, except the green follower, they seemed decent but expensive for $25. What's up w these mags? This is a personal bias. Don't mean to put it on you but I would not buy anything with the branding of Red Jacket. Use google to figure it out. Red Jacket products are not something I'm interested in. Second this, I would avoid anything with their name also. |
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