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Thread: Thermold magazines: how to tell the good ones?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sproc View Post
    kingc, are you describing the worthless ones or the "good" ones?
    The "good" ones..

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    I broke 3 CF thermolds in a row in a training session within the first 60 rounds. The US ones without the Maple Leaf seems to work fine though.

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    The US ones marked D&D INC WILSON NC are okay, the ones made for the Canadian Military with the Maple Leaf suck.

    I have used the US D&D ones before and they are okay. Great training mags. One thing I have seen several times at different classes and in LE training is that the bottoms of the mags will pop off if you drop them on concrete. If your going to use them get some mag pulls on the bottom of them and run the mag pulls front to back not side to side to protect the base plates.

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    Mine are marked D&D Inc.

    "Great training mags"...so, does that imply that they are not for serious use?

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    CF issues the Thermold until 1995 (ish) depending what unit you where in.
    Going to Rwanda we where issued the first batches of "metal" mags - the black Labelle Teflon's

    Later variants of the Thermold where better (they are date coded) -- but they gave me a phobia about polymer mags I have only recently started to get over (with Magpul's PMag).

    Even the US made ones have bad luck in the cold.
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    "Great training mags"...so, does that imply that they are not for serious use?
    I only use mine for training as I do not have a great deal of confidence in them. Since your in CA just use them for training / range trips and save your USGI's for serious use. If you have some worn out USGI's get some replacement bodies from CProducts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevinB View Post
    CF issues the Thermold until 1995 (ish) depending what unit you where in.
    95. I stand corrected. I was trying to remember which mags I wasn't allowed to own any more when the laws changed.

    'metal mags', i remember the term.

    FWIW, the broken one in the pic was an 89.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wild_wild_wes View Post
    Krikey! What was the ambient temperature when the mag broke?

    Doesnt need to be hot or cold for that to happen. Thermolds are crap.
    NOT in training for combat deployment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kingc View Post
    The "good" ones..
    This has been my experience as well with 5 of the U.S. Made Thermolds. Each has around 1,000 rounds on it with no problems...but I've never shot them in "Arctic Chilled" environments.

    I was always told that the "Canadian Made Thermolds
    were the ones to stay away from. Regardless...I only use them for training.

    Tack

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