Poll: Metal or Polymer magazine (WHY?)

[Sgt Nambu]

EDIT: I came a second away from accidentally posting this in an audio and music forum... would have been fun as the many of folks there lean waaaaay to the left.

Isn't a USGI MAG a type of synthesizer?

 

[EPS]

Actually the magazine is indeed metal* ... and the stripper clips that load it are metal as well.
Andy
* The 03A3 has a 5 round internal box magazine.

Yep I know it has a internal Mag I was just saying lol nice gun though you sure do like them old ones

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I figured as much ... I had a good laugh with your post...
As for liking old guns ... Its 'cause I can't afford new ones ....
Andy

 

[EPS]

The oldest gun I got or at least the one that has been around for a long time is a 870

 

[Caveman Jim]

Polymer doesn't rattle and make that "tinging" sound when empty and or dropped. I have both and prefer the polymer.
Also when shooting in wet/cold conditions with gloves a stippled "PMAG" is hands down superior to the standard "STANAG"!

That's why I like the USGI mags because when they hit the ground I can actually hear them hit but not the plasti-mags.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Metal of course...
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Krokus
Fast Way
Saxon
Oh wait .... wrong metal... sorry.
Andy

. R&R makes better & runs off the crowds who follow my boat!!!

 

[Flopsweat]

Well truth be known a man can't live on black powder alone...
Andy

Another way that black powder is like love.

 

[3MTA3]

Another way that black powder is like love.

Being married to my wife is like running around on oiled ice covered with ball bearings while holding a keg of black powder, so I totally get that.

 

[Flopsweat]

Being married to my wife is like running around on oiled ice covered with ball bearings while holding a keg of black powder, so I totally get that.

Love is also like oxygen, apparently.

 

[MrMillspecer]

Battlefield Las Vegas, a high volume machine gun rental has this to say:

"USGI mags have outlasted all of the other brands. We use UGSI (Brownell's with tan follower) and on a mag for mag basis, they have outlasted Pmags and a few of the other mags that we get from mfg's with new weapons. We don't have to worry about various generations with different weapons like the MR556, SCAR, F2000, Tavor or a couple of others that use AR15/M4 magazines."
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AR endurance findings, at a rental range - The Firearm Blog

Other considerations are:

• USGI mags fit and function in all 5.56 NATO systems. Pmags are now in their 3rd generation fixing compatibility problems.
  
• USGI mags are lighter
• USGI mags are smaller and fit better into most pouches
• USGI mags are cheaper

Polymer mags have the advantage of being able to flex without permanently bending

So, while I've been very happy with my Pmags from this point on it's Brownell's tan follower USGI. Not throwing away my Pmags, though...

EDIT: I came a second away from accidentally posting this in an audio and music forum... would have been fun as the many of folks there lean waaaaay to the left.

They are shorter and use the anti tilt followers. No silly storage cap.

 

[EPS]

I figured as much ... I had a good laugh with your post...
As for liking old guns ... Its 'cause I can't afford new ones ....
Andy

I can't afford the new ones either but I have a credit card lol that let's me make payments LOL

 

[EPS]

Mags mags mags here there and everywhere lol

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Those all look like "clean" magazines ... no dirty ones to be found?...
Andy

 

[EPS]

Most are brand new some still in the bag never been loaded lol like I said I buy when they on sale I know I have over 80 AR 15 MAGS the Flat dark earth are for my 300 black out got to keep them separate by color. Don't want to put 300 in a5.56 or vise versa

 

[DuneHopper]

I think it depends on the Firearm, I love the SKS anyone that knows me knows this.
But they have been around along time and tolerances vary, the polymer are way more forgiving in the SKS then metal. I find in AK Variants the same, but the SKS its more noticeable. A steel that will fit in a Norinco with no filing and will and often does take allot of work for fitting in the Yugo and the reverse can be said depending on who makes them, but most times its as I said, wait what I say again. Its Friday sue me.
For a Pistol Steel all the way always work I find more polymer issues in pistols then rifles.
But the SKS I find polymers why do not look as cool as steel tend to work better.

But what do I know.

 

[EPS]

I think it depends on the Firearm, I love the SKS anyone that knows me knows this.
But they have been around along time and tolerances vary, the polymer are way more forgiving in the SKS then metal. I find in AK Variants the same, but the SKS its more noticeable. A steel that will fit in a Norinco with no filing and will and often does take allot of work for fitting in the Yugo and the reverse can be said depending on who makes them, but most times its as I said, wait what I say again. Its Friday sue me.
For a Pistol Steel all the way always work I find more polymer issues in pistols then rifles.
But the SKS I find polymers why do not look as cool as steel tend to work better.

But what do I know.

I don't know about SKS but my AK I had to file the little catch part that the release catches on my polymer Mag's I could get them in with out file but had to pull hard on them to get that latch to click and hold it in the gun but all my metal AK mags fit with out file I have magpul polymer mags and tapco intrafuse AK mags and polish metal one 's and a few other metal ones I picked up at pawn shop and garage sales LOL IT'S FUNNY WHERE YOU WILL FIND AK MAGS

 

[parallax]

Metal of course...
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Krokus
Fast Way
Saxon
Oh wait .... wrong metal... sorry.
Andy

No apology needed for the metal you are talking about............

 

[EPS]

A little WD40 and the old rusty metal Mag's work lol I saw a video of a guy in Africa that found a bunch of guns and ammo that had been in a hole under a pile of rocks for 25 year's he pulled a AK out and cleaned the dirt of dumped some motor oil on it worked the bolt a few times put a Mag in it and it fire's a few times jams he racks it two times and it fire's again lol I SWEAR HE DUMPS QUAKER STATE 40WT ON IT LOL

 

[EPS]

. R&R makes better & runs off the crowds who follow my boat!!!

Yep love that metal and sense my name is Eddie love the Iron Maiden lol 666 the trooper well that's two I can't go down the whole list that would be a whole new thread

 

[Raidingtime]

Metal mags

They slide in and out of firearms, jean pockets, and magazine carriers easier.

Polymer ones look good on the range and on Youtube. In reality, metal ones are the ones that you want if you're serious about using a firearm for something other than a gunpowder driven golf club.