What once was valued
During the assault weapons ban, I was much more inclined to clean and maintain my AR mags. If one malfunctioned, I would try to determine the problem. And would even bend the feedlips some with a pair of pliers and that usually worked. Or any other various fixes, like replacing follower and springs. But that was back when they were expensive and not necessarily reliable when you found one, since they were all used and probably beat up. Now that you can get good magazines for $10 each, I’m more inclined to toss a finicky magazine in the bottom of the ammo vault and forget about it.
Magazines are disposable again.
October 8th, 2010 at 10:23 am
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
October 8th, 2010 at 11:35 am
I wish I lived in such a free state. . . in MA we still treat high cap mags like gold. . . .
October 8th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
PMags, Baby!!
Tough and reliable. Love ’em.
October 8th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
ETA:
I pretty much don’t shoot my aluminum AR mags any more.
October 8th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I keep waiting for the day when we can say the same thing about ammo.
October 8th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
I believe it was Tam’s advice, and very good, that if you had a “bad” magazine, you should smash it flat and throw it out.
That way you’ll never use it by mistake – especially in an Important Situation.
October 8th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Don’t be too hasty. Rumor has it that if Reid lose and the Repubs gain enough votes, Barry will turn on the Anti-Gun portion of his Agenda off his Campaign Website (everyone downloaded it and saved it before it mysteriously disappeared, right?) and will work through Executive Orders and various Agency Regs to enact Gun Control if Chuckie Schumer takes over as Minority Leader. The Anointed One NEEDS his Left Wing Base if he wants to steal the Election in 2012.
October 8th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I’m still stockpiling mags for anything I use with any regularity. (Unfortunately, AK mags are the cheapest ones I use. Most everything else starts at twenty bucks a pop.) Won’t be caught flatfooted on that one again, it’ll have to be something else.
October 8th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I do keep a couple of bad ones around for training. I have one for my .45 and one for my AR that is buggered in a way that keeps the slide or bolt from locking back on empty. I gave them the usual blue stripe but wrote “bad” in silver magic marker on them and toss them into the pile. Besides having a friend load your mags with a few dummies here and there, having the slide not lock back on empty when I happen to grab that mag mixes up the failure drill enough to keep it interesting.
October 8th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
JD beat me to it. I have a bag full of surplus L1A1 mags that are still packed in cosmoline…
October 8th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Here’s a coupla good deals my lovelies:
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October 9th, 2010 at 12:22 am
This is the one area where we ALL need to think for a moment. If a magazine will not function, do not rely on it. I still have a vk82 mag marked as a 20 round, but it will only accept 12. I will keep it. That spring may relax a bit, over time.
October 9th, 2010 at 12:26 am
vz82. Sorry, long day.
October 9th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
I usually keep the crap mags and take them to the range. Good for drils on unexpected stoppages, not much else.