Hot Lips vs Steel Lips

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So whats the difference other than ones steel and the other is "self lubricating" molded plastic?
Loading a mag every 10 rounds kinda blows in my book. And when walking a gopher field you need LOTS of ammo at your disposal :evil:
I just got my new 10/22 and I want a bigger mag (or mags :))
The store I was in today only had the hotlips mags. It seems logical that the steel lips would last longer without getting wrecked from constant loading.
Thoughts?
 
Go for the steel lips if you can get them. The hot lips will eventually be chewed up and you'll have to replace them. If you are like me and bring 5x 25 round mags when you bring out your .22 and load them up a few times each you'll be thankful you have the steel lips.
 
Best 40 bucks I ever spent for my 10/22. I had a few problems jamming and rubbing up on my knuckle when turning the wheel but it sure as hell beats loading them one by one.
 
I have the Steel-lips myself. One mag worked fine right from the start, but the other needed a bit of a workout. It seemed to prefer being handloaded, and now it works just fine this way, right up to max capacity. Next time I'm out at the range I'm gonna try the speedloader again, and see if it can now handle that as well. If not, kinda sucks, but I'd still rather load 25 rounds at a time than 10 ;).
 
Just ordered a bunch of parts from "Rimfire.com" In that order is two 25 rnd steel lip mags in *smoke*
Let the games begin ;)
 
'self-lubricating plastic'

rofl. i love how whenever they pick some crappier process or cost-saving measure the marketing department always comes up with some bull#%@ catch-phrase to go with it.

like when they started bead-blasting and matte bluing all guns to hide blemishes (and become rust-magnets) and save polishing/finishing work it was a cool new 'low glare' feature.

get steel lips, hot lips are a POS.
 
steel lips aint perfect either.

I had one go after about 500 rounds. The plastic that houses the steel portion of the magazine cracked all over and it doesn't feed properly anymore.
 
Some epoxy will fix a cracked steel lips. With any plastic mags some care and caution is needed. In the end all magazines are disposable. Use them, wear them out then chuck them. Its one of the money pits we have to deal with as shooters.

The steel lips are leaps and bounds ahead of hot lips.

TDC
 
Matt_P said:
^does the beta mag fit a speed loader?

I'd hate to have to sit there loading 90 rounds by hand!!!
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That's part of the reason why I dumped my 50 round MWG mag. 25 is about all I can handle to load by hand. Anything more and it eats up time. The speedloaders or loading tools are ok for range work but no good in the field.

TDC
 
Wolverine imports the TI-25 mags, you might want to check those out as well. They're expensive, but worth it.

I have a couple of hot lips...they're ok, but do wear out over time. I'd go TI-25s and spend the extra coin.
 
http://w ww.rimfiresports.com/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RSC&Product_Code=MWG022050&Category_Code=R1A

i would like to know more about it.

sorry 50 rnder
 
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