Vintage 5/20 mags...
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I bought new Colt 20-round mags from a US dealer for $15 USD apiece and had them pinned and imported by a 3rd Party Importer who is not a site sponsor. The cost was $20 per mag for importation, plus $10 -for rivetting to 5rds capacity, plus a portion of the $26 shipping. All told, each $15 USD magazine cost me approximately $55 CAD. A crazy mark-up for sure, but at the end of the day it was the only way that I could find to obtain genuine Colt 5/20-round mags with the correct Vietnam-era Gray Dry Film Lubricant finish to go with my Colt SP1 and Troy XM177E2:
Yeah, we know. But those only come in Black, right? Wrong colour for those of us who specifically want the old-school Colt Gray Dry-Lube finish. I suppose you could have your black mags ceracoated Gray, but then you are looking at even more money than $55 per mag and they still won't be the exact right colour tone....
OP wants 5/20 mags, plain and simple. Not a breakdown of your wasted efforts on recreating a Vietnam-era service rifle...
OP wants 5/20 mags, plain and simple. Not a breakdown of your wasted efforts on recreating a Vietnam-era service rifle...
Details are important to some people, even if not to you. But that's OK, you just keep posting useless barbs out of some misplaced sense of whatever, while the rest of us actually contribute information relevant to the discussion. One man's "wasted efforts" are another man's passion. Stop admiring yourself in the mirror long enough to take a look around and you will see that "retro" Vietnam-era rifles and carbines were a major theme of SHOT 2018. Closed-minded attitudes like yours are less than helpful. It is you who is irrelevant because you have contributed nothing of value to the discussion with your pithy comments. The OP specifically asked about vintage 5/20-round magazines, not current production examples, plain and simple. Too bad you choose to be on the outside looking in. We had names for people like you when I served in the Army, sadly none of them were suggestive of value to the team....
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OP wants 5/20 mags, plain and simple. Not a breakdown of your wasted efforts on recreating a Vietnam-era service rifle...
Where the hell did that come from? - Time to put the bottle down?
I'm lucky enough to have worked with a nam vet in the 80's. One day in 88 he gave me a mag he had in his old webbing that yes indeed was carried throughout his 12 month tour. There's little finish left on the mag and I refuse to refinish it. It has an aluminum follower and a small dent. That mag is to me the nicest piece to my collection. It only jammed once since I got it but that was in my old jam-o-matic Tavor.
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