Best LAR mags as of 2016?

greentips said:
The best LAR 10 mags are the early ones imported by Quester. The finish is not durable, but functioning is the best.

I haven't used any plastic 10 rounders, but I was at a match and watched someone struggling with a plastic ones ( not sure who make it is, there are so many of these. It is a very very very short one). He bought it off a store just before the match and had some issues with a TAVOR. Could be user error because these mags are so short it is difficult to manipulate.

This brings it to the point that with metal LAR mags, you can use GSDesign's plastic extension to make it almost like a 30 rounder in size and shape. I consider that to be very important for training purpose and it is essential for use with regular gear. Extension for plastic mag is difficult to make because it needs to be hollow all the way. The baseplate is depending on the magazine spring to push down on the detent to lock up the base plate. Almost all plastic mags work like this. Also, the baseplate guiding rail on the mag body is always on the outside, so any exertion will be to much thicker than the body.
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+1 for Questar. Bought mine at 180 for 10 couple years ago.

The gray/silver lar15 magazines worked very good from Day 1. I have changed their followers for magpul anti-tilt, but never had a feeding issue with them, its just something I do to all my "other than pmags" magazines.
 
My Press Check Ventures 50 Beowulf mags' feed lips are spreading apart. Got stuck in my magwell bad because of that. Unreliable. If anybody wants some I've got four I can sell.
 
DT741 said:
+1 for Questar. Bought mine at 180 for 10 couple years ago.

The gray/silver lar15 magazines worked very good from Day 1. I have changed their followers for magpul anti-tilt, but never had a feeding issue with them, its just something I do to all my "other than pmags" magazines.
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My very first gen early Quester LAR mags came with factory magpul anti-tilt followers installed.
 
Have 4 ATRS(bought 2 months ago) all feed well but only 1 locks the bolt back every time. 1 Some of the time and the other 2 have never locked the bolt back. Not sure if this has something to do with my AR since I built it from the ground up and have no issues with any PMag or C-Products mag I have used in it.
I do love the size of them and have just started to get into the habit of just counting my shots.
 
I have some of the original LAR mags and they work fantastic.

I also have some unknown brand (I think it might be C-Products) they have a bright orange follower.

The magazine latch hole has a lip on top of them that catches on everything and makes it hard to drop them free. I had to grind the lip down off of them.

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See how these have the lip at the bottom of the latch hole? The ones with the orange follower also have the same lip on top of it as well and it's a pain in the ass.

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TCLP999 said:
Have 4 ATRS(bought 2 months ago) all feed well but only 1 locks the bolt back every time. 1 Some of the time and the other 2 have never locked the bolt back. Not sure if this has something to do with my AR since I built it from the ground up and have no issues with any PMag or C-Products mag I have used in it.
I do love the size of them and have just started to get into the habit of just counting my shots.
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This is good info, thanks!
 
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