Magpul Ranger Plates and LAR-15 10 round mags

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Are they compatible? Do you lose capacity?

The c-product tac-pull looks cheesy and breakable. I'm asking about the Magpul Ranger plates.

I need something to grab at the top of my mag pouches.
 
I heard that on normal cap mags, they reduce the loaded round count. I just wanted to make sure that there is enough follower clearance on the LAR-15 mags so that 10 can still be fully loaded.
 
LAR-15 worked like a charm, there are plenty of play in the spring to handle the extra 3 to 4 millimeter you will lose with the Ranger plate.

any pinned to 5 mags will be fine because the extra play in the spring is below the rivet, only the unpinned 5 round 7.62X39 mags I had to cut 3 coils off the compressed spring end for the ranger plate to handle 5 rounds.
 
I have three LAR15 mags which I put the Ranger basepads on. I had no problem loading ten rounds once installed but did have a problem chambering a round when I put the full mag in with the bolt forward. I had to file some material off the mag followers to give them more room.
 
I know a few people who had to remove a bit of the follower. Perhaps if the mags are new the spring tension will be too much, but on older mags you will be ok.
 
canucklehead said:
It's funny.. I just took the ranger plates OFF my LAR mags and replaced them with the nerdy tacti-puls. :) They work better on my FS2000 than ranger plates. :)
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I had to purchase the couplers for my LARS as they disappeared into the receiver of my FS2000 even with the magpuls on there. With two coupled together, it's like a 30 rounder so it sticks out just fine (but can't use the rangers anymore).
 
If you cut the legs to 24mm high each, you can fit 10.5 rounds into a LA15 mag with ranger plates installed. I do this to all of mine.

If you don't have a little downward give to a mag with 10 rounds in it, you won't get the mag to lock on a closed bolt.

The downside is if you ever go back to a standard baseplate, you would need to replace the follower or you might have an 11 round mag.
 
Claven2 said:
If you cut the legs to 24mm high each, you can fit 10.5 rounds into a LA15 mag with ranger plates installed. I do this to all of mine.

If you don't have a little downward give to a mag with 10 rounds in it, you won't get the mag to lock on a closed bolt.

The downside is if you ever go back to a standard baseplate, you would need to replace the follower or you might have an 11 round mag.
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So without those mods, you won't be able to put 10.
I had Ranger Plates on, I'm having issues putting 10 into my LAR mags.
 
Claven2 said:
If you cut the legs to 24mm high each, you can fit 10.5 rounds into a LA15 mag with ranger plates installed. I do this to all of mine.

If you don't have a little downward give to a mag with 10 rounds in it, you won't get the mag to lock on a closed bolt.

The downside is if you ever go back to a standard baseplate, you would need to replace the follower or you might have an 11 round mag.
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Confirmed, 24mm is the magic number, havent tried putting it in a gun but it allows you all 10 shells with a small amout of wiggle room
 
Excellent. This is the good stuff. Anyone in Canada with rangerplates in? Otherwise brownell's, I guess.
 
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