C7 Plastic Mags?
- Thread starter y2k
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Depends on which ones you get. The early ones were prone to breaking feed lips. The last generation of them were better. I had some and I never had a problem with them. I was forced to sell them when I went through a rough period in my life (unemployed for an extended period during the Bob Rae era). 
JimboJones
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- Brantford, Ontario
They were originally meant to be disposible but after a few budget cuts they became the only mags issued to reservists.
The lips would crack if you loaded one too forcefully on a closed bolt, dropped them, or just looked at them funny.
The floor plate retention clip was only ever meant to lock in place once (disposible) meaning if you want to clean them you have about a 50/50 chance of breaking it in the process.
Finally they never really fed well with the full 30 rounds in them. Too mutch friction from the plastic lips or spring tension or both. (shouldn't be a prob with only 5 rounds)
Just stay away from them.
The lips would crack if you loaded one too forcefully on a closed bolt, dropped them, or just looked at them funny.
The floor plate retention clip was only ever meant to lock in place once (disposible) meaning if you want to clean them you have about a 50/50 chance of breaking it in the process.
Finally they never really fed well with the full 30 rounds in them. Too mutch friction from the plastic lips or spring tension or both. (shouldn't be a prob with only 5 rounds)
Just stay away from them.
+1!!!!
I was a reservist born in 1995, and I saw it all with these #### sticks. The worst was when an instructor on my BMQ in winter on a conventional range, got up from prone and all we saw was 30 rounds of 5.56 spewing out the bottom of the mag- Never mind all the cracked lips, mis-fed rounds, other crap tastic incidents we had.
Save your shillings dude
Gunnerlove
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- Vancouver Island
I have 10 and all the base plates are held on with epoxy and gun tape.
Junk.
Junk.
dangertree
Business Rep
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- NL/ON/FL/PL
Craptastic. Just garbage, for all the reasons outlined above.
Funny story, at the SHOT Show last year, I was browsing through a booth when I overheard a salesman showing the Thermolds to a potential customer... "I'll tell you, The Canadians just love these, they buy them all up all the time, it's all they'll use up there!". Bit my tongue and kept on moving.
My Thermolds wen't under my boot heel the moment I could replace them for USGI Aluminum mags, back in the day.
Funny story, at the SHOT Show last year, I was browsing through a booth when I overheard a salesman showing the Thermolds to a potential customer... "I'll tell you, The Canadians just love these, they buy them all up all the time, it's all they'll use up there!". Bit my tongue and kept on moving.
My Thermolds wen't under my boot heel the moment I could replace them for USGI Aluminum mags, back in the day.
Stepped on and broke every one I got my hands on. They were designed to be issued loaded, used once and discarded. For that, they worked. They were never made for multiple use. Our cheap government starving the military at the time saw different though.
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My son wouldnt use them when he was going to Bosnia 15-20 years ago. He took all of my metal mags and when he was returning sold them to the incoming crew and kept the money too the little *^&^%$. I have since re-aquired many metal mags.
rigrat
My son wouldnt use them when he was going to Bosnia 15-20 years ago. He took all of my metal mags and when he was returning sold them to the incoming crew and kept the money too the little *^&^%$. I have since re-aquired many metal mags.
rigrat
Yes, a Lieberal governement under Trouduc that did not care for the armed forces and a bunch of well connected snake-oil salesmen that peddled an inferior product...And Voila!! The canadian soldiers get issued cheap plastic mags that cannot possibly perform well in the cold...
Same Geniuses that bought the ever useless ADATS, bought the glorioulsy incapable Victoria class diesel submarines at nuclear prices and cancelled the order, at the cost of a billion dollars, of the helicopters they had to order again a few years and many millions dollars later... Do you also remember the Italian trucks they purchased? What about our WW2 headquarter in London that we are still maintaining at great cost for the generals to take vacation? What about the Chinooks that were given away and that we now have to replace... With Chinooks!! How about the Cougars that could not fired with their guns sideways for fear of tipping?
Same Geniuses that bought the ever useless ADATS, bought the glorioulsy incapable Victoria class diesel submarines at nuclear prices and cancelled the order, at the cost of a billion dollars, of the helicopters they had to order again a few years and many millions dollars later... Do you also remember the Italian trucks they purchased? What about our WW2 headquarter in London that we are still maintaining at great cost for the generals to take vacation? What about the Chinooks that were given away and that we now have to replace... With Chinooks!! How about the Cougars that could not fired with their guns sideways for fear of tipping?
dangertree
Business Rep
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- NL/ON/FL/PL
My folks found a box of my stuff at their house when they were moving last year, in it was a couple of old Thermolds. Brought one out to the range to see if my memories of them were accurate.
On the second loading I experienced the old 'eject all rounds through the ejection port at once' failure.
Ah Memories.....
The second one, under my boot heel, they smash with the same satisfaction as they used to.
On the second loading I experienced the old 'eject all rounds through the ejection port at once' failure.
Ah Memories.....
The second one, under my boot heel, they smash with the same satisfaction as they used to.
