dang glad my gen3 work. Is it possible that some g3 pmags work and others do not? should I be cautious going forward?
dang glad my gen3 work. Is it possible that some g3 pmags work and others do not? should I be cautious going forward?
Yes. And probably not.
I’m sure the specs on the pmags have more tolerance than the lower. Out of all the lowers BCM puts out I’ve only heard of this a handful of times so it’s a small percentage. But what gets me is BCM won’t do anything about it. They should machine the back of the magwell to properly length on the forged lowers that are a little off.
I’m glad all my BCM lowers work with gen3 mags or I would be pissed. And the OP should be rightly so. I think BCM is held to a high standard here and they fall short on this one.
I have a KAC like that that I refuse to build out and no one will buy off me for far less than I paid. I have plenty of high end lowers that have no issue with gen 3 pmags. It's tolerance stacking and in my opinion is BS.
My rifles have to accept P-Mags.
Last edited by Biggy; 03-16-18 at 18:18.
I don't think there is an issue of tolerance stacking. As previously stated the Army and USMC approved the M3 PMAGs for combat use after thorough testing. I don't want to talk out of my ass, but I'm sure that potential tolerance stacking issues would be identified. There's no way they would approve a mag that would fail to function in a percentage of their weapons.
I tried 7-8 M3 PMAGs in the lower in question. They all failed. This lower is clearly off. On all my other rifles the magwell is even with the trigger guard. On the BCM lower the magwell extends below the trigger guard. I don't want to be a crybaby, but I am dissapointed. Something either meets the standard or it doesn't. This item clearly doesn't meet the standard.
I'll probably either sell this lower or put it on my beater gun.
See the picture below. I should add both trigger guards are the same design. The only difference is the logo on them.
BCM Lower.jpg
Last edited by Bolverk93; 03-15-18 at 23:51.
Hell, M3s rack in my cheap crappy plastic 80%s... you know there's something SERIOUSLY wrong when my $25 Bubbafied homebrew EP Armory plasticrap works and your expensive BCM doesn't.
Not to diss BCM, the parts I've bought from them I've been impressed with and I'm thinking about asking them if they can do an unassembled "kit" version of their C8 URG for the GF... but there's just something head-scratchingly "WTF?!" with them on this one.
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This is the first I've heard of this, and I have quite a few BCM lowers (and quite a few gen 3 PMAGS). I'll have to grab an empty PMAG and try all my lowers.
My BCM lower accepts gen 3 pmags just fine. Also bought it a while back, maybe its the new stuff?
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