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Pat
I have a fly-in-only cabin across the Susitna from Willow that my father and I built. Suffice it to say that I know Alaska very well. If you clean the magazine as I showed in the video, cycling the follower with a finger while pouring water inside, and doing the same while dumping the water out, it will be very clean inside.
Regards
Andrew
Try Bethel or other places with fine river silt that gets into everything. I have seen it stop pretty much any magazine cold that was not cleaned at least once a week and that is if it was not being used. Drop an AR mag on the deck once and it needed to be cleaned. You know one tiny little part of Alaska. I have lived and travelled all over it for my life.
Pat
Serving as a LEO since 1999.
USPSA# A56876 A Class
Firearms Instructor
Armorer for AR15, 1911, Glocks and Remington 870 shotguns.
I frequent a range that is composed of a very fine silt, propelled by 10-20mph winds. Adding a bit of moisture produces something approximating cement in the components it contacts by the end of the day.
We'll see how the ARC and the recommended cleaning method perform. Out of the gate, I'm not terribly optimistic about the cleaning method, but it'll get a fair shake and receive credit where credit is due.
Last edited by ST911; 04-04-09 at 20:30.
Pat
I'm not going to list every place I've been in Alaska because I'm not interested in a pissing contest. If you do like I said, the mag will work, and I have seen lots of silt, from the Susitna to the Euphrates. Since you've never even held one, I suggest you give my cleaning recommendation a try before you condemn the mag.
Andrew
If you don't want a pissing match it would help if you read my post rather than making asusmptions. I have 2 of the mags in my possession right now they arrived yeasterday as I said in my post. I will be shooting them starting monday on my days off.
If it would help i could post a pic of me holding the mags.
Pat
Last edited by Alaskapopo; 04-04-09 at 22:32.
Serving as a LEO since 1999.
USPSA# A56876 A Class
Firearms Instructor
Armorer for AR15, 1911, Glocks and Remington 870 shotguns.
Pat, my apologies. Didn't see that. Try dunking them in the river while cycling the follower, rinse and repeat. It'll get the silt out. I promise.
Sorry I was a bit rude. The mags look well made and I am sure they will run well. My main areas of concern are the following. 1. In ability to take it apart. It may be a moot point as you say but I just like being able to take things apart for cleaning ext. 2. I would like to be able to put a rubber base plate or a ranger plate. I suppose standard Mag pulls would work. I like rubber on the bottom of a mag maintly for using it off of a car hood or any other surface that maybe slick. 3. The things look ugly. That is subjective. If you made a high cap one for three gun say with 45 rounds I would buy a ton.
Pat
Serving as a LEO since 1999.
USPSA# A56876 A Class
Firearms Instructor
Armorer for AR15, 1911, Glocks and Remington 870 shotguns.
I have seen some with rubber of some kind attached to the bottom, but I don't know if that was a one-off special or not.
I think the 2 piece design will allow for more mag variations, I have already seen 5,10, 20, and 30rd mags. Why stop at 30?
I understand what you're saying about cleaning. If you watch the video closely, that was 28 rounds I fired, not 30. My point is, old habits die hard. That was the mag in my bedside gun, I just unloaded it there for the video.
Last edited by 87GN; 04-04-09 at 23:07.
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