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    Bad magazine

    i just shot my bcm rifle today and i had a slight issue with my new tapco 30rd mag, as so it seems. the first 30 rounds i put into the mag were american eagle 223's. i had no issues. then i shot 30 rounds of PMC bronze through my 3 10 round magazines made by C products LLC and had no issues then, after that i put federal lake city 5.56 rounds in my tapco 30 round magazine and i had 2 -4 issues with the round not loading into the chamber. i did try a few 5.56 rounds in the other 10 round magazine and i had no issues but that may have just been luck cause the mag only had 3/10 rounds in it. i cant get more ammo and try again for a little while, thats y im asking if anyone else has had issues with tapco polymer mags?

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    thats y im asking if anyone else has had issues with tapco polymer mags?
    No, because I'm smart enough not to buy crap mags.

    But I've personally seen Tapcos fail. Get yourself some quality magazines- Magpul PMAGs.
    I'm no expert, but I took my CCW course at a Holiday Inn Express

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    Yep, sorry to tell you... Ditch the Crapco, and pick up something quality.

    Quality USGI with Magpul followers
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    italius222, I'm not gonna say I'm so smart I wouldn't buy crap magazines because I've bought other things during my life that turned to the brown sticky stuff. However I will say that I've used the p-Mags quite a bit and love them. I've never had problems with any ammo I've run through em. In fact I was so impressed that I bought several for my nephew and gave them to him before he deployed to Afghanistan. (He loves them too)
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    yea i figured. sometimes you really do get what you pay for. thanks. ill look into magpul
    Last edited by italius222; 12-19-10 at 22:34.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whootsinator View Post
    Yep, sorry to tell you... Ditch the Crapco, and pick up something quality.

    Quality USGI with Magpul followers
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    I agree. Though I am not the biggest PMag fan on the planet, I would take them any day that ends in 'y' over a Crapco mag.

    Admittedly, I do have one or two Crapco AK magazines.... but they were for a video I made entitled, 'Why every US made AK magazine sucks ass'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by italius222 View Post
    yea i figured. sometimes you really do get what you pay for. thanks. ill look into magpul
    The good news is that PMAGs are within a couple of bucks of the price of TAPCO mags.
    Last edited by Avenger29; 12-20-10 at 00:30.
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    I hate to dog pile, but when I bought my first AR I bought 10 Tapco mags to go with it...it made me believe all the internet lore that ARs were crap and only AKs were good. Constant feed ramp stoppages and failure to strip and chamber another round drove me nuts. I received a PMag in a trade and all those problems went away.
    Stick with PMags, GI contract mags, Lancer L5s or Tango Down.

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    I had serious problems with a C products plastic magazine when at the range yesterday. The thing would feed one round and then fail to feed over and over.

    I finally extracted all of the rounds out of it and then used all of my used aluminum and steel 20 rounders with no issues.

    The sad thing is, is that he C products 30 round mag was brand new out of the box, but the x5 20 round mags that were used and extremely dirty in some cases, had no issues at all.

    I'm gonna stay away from plastic mags from now on, unless they are P-mags, which i'd like to give a try some day soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimston View Post
    I had serious problems with a C products plastic magazine when at the range yesterday. The thing would feed one round and then fail to feed over and over.

    I finally extracted all of the rounds out of it and then used all of my used aluminum and steel 20 rounders with no issues.

    The sad thing is, is that he C products 30 round mag was brand new out of the box, but the x5 20 round mags that were used and extremely dirty in some cases, had no issues at all.

    I'm gonna stay away from plastic mags from now on, unless they are P-mags, which i'd like to give a try some day soon.
    C Products doesn't make plastic magazines. The make stainless steel bodied mags and they make Aluminum bodied mags.

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