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Thread: Any advantage to using USGI over PMAG?

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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    I tried one of the Tango Down mags. The should have named them "Weapon Down" mags. I dumped that gun stopper quick.
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    No real advantage to running USGI mags over black PMAGs, IMHO.
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    USGI mags have a weight advantage by some marginal amount

    Downside to all the USGI mags is make M4 feedramps useless as that part is covered up..that and they have a nasty habit of cutting a groove into the bullet as the bullet passes the front of the mag. I have cut down the front edge of several of my USGI mags so this is not an issue and the M4 feedramps are functional.

    If any of you guys have some USGI mags insert an empty one and youll see that the front edge covers the M4 cuts

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    Quote Originally Posted by GermanSynergy View Post
    No real advantage to running USGI mags over black PMAGs, IMHO.
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    With a perfectly good P-Mag and a perfectly good USGI mag, I have never had a rifle not function properly with a USGI but I have experienced (and read about) issues of P-Mags not dropping free or not holding the bolt open after the last shot in some guns.

    There are numerous threads about "sanding" the ribs on P-Mags to help them drop free. This is why every mag should be function checked in the gun(s) you intend to use them in.

    I think this is why the military has not selected P-Mags. I really wish P-Mags functioned 100% in my guns but they don't. What's kind of goofy is my gun maker supplies P-Mags with their rifle. Let me add that the only experience I have with P-Mags are with the latest "M" version; I never tried the earlier P-Mags.

    I'm sure this will be taken as a bash on P-Mags but it isn't. It is just that they are not 100% in my rifles and to be honest, I wish they were 100% because I really like the idea of a plastic mag. All I'm saying is which ever mag you decide to stock up on...test and check them out thoroughly.

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    I have some USGI's but see no reason to buy anything but Pmags.

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    I really wish P-Mags functioned 100% in my guns but they don't.
    What's the rifle(s) in question?
    Last edited by opmike; 08-01-10 at 13:34.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ucrt View Post
    I think this is why the military has not selected P-Mags.
    Nope.
    There has not been any recent magazine "selection" for any type or brand to win. However, PMags do have an NSN, and since units have to pay for any magazine that is not shipped with a weapon, it's pretty much the same as being "selected".
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    Quote Originally Posted by opmike View Post
    What's the rifle(s) in question?
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    I had an ArmaLite 15A4TN last year that the 2 P-Mags I tried would not drop free. The P-Mags worked OK in a couple of other rifles that I had (RRA, YHM, SIG556) but the two Noveske's I currently have fail to reliably lock back on the last shot on any P-Mag (M version) 20-round or 30-round with a variety of 5.56 and 223 ammo.

    I love the Noveske's but just don't use P-Mags in them.

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    Last edited by ucrt; 08-01-10 at 15:42.

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    With Magpul followers, I have had no issues with GI mags.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ucrt View Post
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    With a perfectly good P-Mag and a perfectly good USGI mag, I have never had a rifle not function properly with a USGI but I have experienced (and read about) issues of P-Mags not dropping free or not holding the bolt open after the last shot in some guns.

    There are numerous threads about "sanding" the ribs on P-Mags to help them drop free. This is why every mag should be function checked in the gun(s) you intend to use them in.

    I think this is why the military has not selected P-Mags. I really wish P-Mags functioned 100% in my guns but they don't. What's kind of goofy is my gun maker supplies P-Mags with their rifle. Let me add that the only experience I have with P-Mags are with the latest "M" version; I never tried the earlier P-Mags.

    I'm sure this will be taken as a bash on P-Mags but it isn't. It is just that they are not 100% in my rifles and to be honest, I wish they were 100% because I really like the idea of a plastic mag. All I'm saying is which ever mag you decide to stock up on...test and check them out thoroughly.

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    Disregard....answered in previous post.
    Last edited by RogerinTPA; 08-01-10 at 16:58.
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