Originally Posted by
Ed L.
I did have encounter an issue with the new US made AUG mags with an AUGa3 that I got to T&E.
As soon as I tried these magazines in the gun I noticed that they would not lock into the magwell without a hard whap on the bottom. The result was the same in my own Austrian built AUG A2.
This is a problem because slapping the bottom of a magazine can make the top round pop out into the open chamber and cause a doublefeed when the bolt is released and it picks up an additional round from the magazine. AUG mags are far more vulnerable to this than AR mags. This is why it’s always best practice to tilt the AUG to the side so that its ejection port faces the ground before releasing the charging handle. This allows any loose rounds in the chamber to fall out. The Australian Army Manual of Land Warfare (Volume 4, Small Arms) emphasizes this point.
I seem to recall that the first batch of US mags assembled by Sabre had out of spec springs.
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