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Posted: 3/28/2008 6:23:00 PM EDT
| Does anyone know if the new lancer mags work with the FS2000? I am thinking about getting both. If they don't fit I don't want to buy a bunch till I make my mind up about the FS2000 |
| They don't fit as the FS2000 as it is shipped. The rubber skirt in the mag well only fits the profile of a standard GI mag. If you removed the skirt they might fit but people who have removed it to use PMAGS don't seem to be happy with the results. My buddy just went trough it, he ordered the Lancer mags without asking me first. I told him if he wants to be able to see the round count we need to get some of the old aluminum Magpul Maglevel mags. |
The buttstock would have to lose more than just a little material for everything to fit right. Who knows how that would affect the integrity of the thing, to say nothing of the warranty. |
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Don't sweat it guys. The P-MAG doesn't work with the HK 416 (lower) either. Has to do with their flared and extended magwell. If you have a milspec lower their upper will run on it though with any mag. Just pointing out that the chocolatiers aren't unique in designing things this way. --Fargo007 |
Well, like they say where there is a will there is a way. |
No offense intended, but not buying an FS2000 because it doesn't take "new age" polymer mags is just silly. I don't think that aluminum "maglevel" mags are available (if they were, and they worked, I'd sure as hell buy them though  )No, I haven't jacked with my fS2000 to get it to work with the P-mags that I own (I don't have the lancers). Yes, I do love the FS2000 (standard) and it works flawlessly with the HK and GI mags, as well as the supplied mag. It's nuts to even THINK that a major firearms manufacturer would design a $2000 gun with 10's of millions of dollars in research around a $17 magazine that isn't in wide spread supply (minus arfcom  ).And lastly, no, I have no desire to fuck with my $2000 gun to make it work with a flavor of the day mag. Buy the FS2000 and buy the mags that it was intended to use. Or don't buy it. Or buy it and fuck with it. I don't care. 
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I am going to be shooting my FS2K for the first time tomorrow (unless I have another work emergency). I have dozens of military issue AR mags (accident, I swear). some are the very same ones I used in Desert Storm. Some are newer. I also have a bunch of 40-rd steel mags that work flawlessly in my Colt AR, but not in my M-17. and, of course, I have the one mag supplied by FN. Q.: Are the HK (or Sig) mags significantly better than what I have? If so, how? I'll buy some if it's a good idea, but not if they're not really better than the GI issue ones. Thanks in advance. |
I wouldn't say that PMags are an exclusively arfcom item. Where I work, we unfailingly seem to sell out every shipment of PMags we receive within 24 to 48 hours. I see a tremendous number of people, including plenty of people who aren't gun forummers by any means, using large quantities of PMags and converting others under the Magpul banner. Consider to that all of this has come basically within the past year or so. Five years from now, the idea of designing a .223 carbine that only accepts aluminum GI mags will seem absolutely retarded. |
My thoughts exactly. |
Damn.
And don't let it happen again  !I have actually seen other members state that they wouldn't buy one because of that. Seemed kind of like a waste to me. It's such a nice rifle. |
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