10/22 mag
- Thread starter gerard488
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archerynut
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- Calgary, Alberta
if you don't mind spending money in return for a good item, the tactical solutions aluminum 25 rd. magazine is pretty nice. its heavy because of the almost complete aluminum construction. but, you can completely dis-assemble the magazine for cleaning and repairs. but they cost at least two or three times as much as the butler creek plastic mags. the feed lips are fully adjustable as well to allow the magazine to be fine tuned for any 10/22. I have one and I really like it. one is all I can afford as well!
This is like an oil thread on a motorcycle forum. Worse than politics, religion and abortion all rolled into one.
That said, I have 6 Butler Creek steel lips mags and have had one failure to feed among them through close to 1000 rounds. It happened on the first use of the mag, maybe the 6th or 7th round fired. Nothing since. I find them easy to load because the spring design keeps a constant tension on the follower instead of getting harder and harder to load as more rounds are on the stack. The rifle is an older well used 10/22 with a metal trigger guard if that matters to anybody.
The next 5 guys will have had horrible luck with the BC mags and won't use them under any circumstances.... From what I can tell, it is a crap shoot with both the 10/22 and the mags for it. My sample of 1 rifle and 6 mags says all is 100% and trouble free, but many others will disagree on that.
Mark
That said, I have 6 Butler Creek steel lips mags and have had one failure to feed among them through close to 1000 rounds. It happened on the first use of the mag, maybe the 6th or 7th round fired. Nothing since. I find them easy to load because the spring design keeps a constant tension on the follower instead of getting harder and harder to load as more rounds are on the stack. The rifle is an older well used 10/22 with a metal trigger guard if that matters to anybody.
The next 5 guys will have had horrible luck with the BC mags and won't use them under any circumstances.... From what I can tell, it is a crap shoot with both the 10/22 and the mags for it. My sample of 1 rifle and 6 mags says all is 100% and trouble free, but many others will disagree on that.
Mark
