CF C7 and C8 steel magazines

You have me at a loss as I haven't seen a steel mag for a C7/C8. All metal mags I have seen for the rifles since the crappy thermolds were abandoned are of a standard aluminum USGI type. The cage code on the ones with a cage code trace back to D&H out of Delaware. If authentic is your goal then just a black Teflon coated USGI alloy mag is your best bet.

I haven't handled a steel mag at work since I carried an FNC1/FNC2.

Moe
 
The original black teflon mags were made by Labelle, they had Diemaco floor plates on them. D&H bought out Labelle.
 
Rebel Rouser said:
The original black teflon mags were made by Labelle, they had Diemaco floor plates on them. D&H bought out Labelle.
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I was in the Reserves when my unit boxed up the Thermolds and got the aluminum mags. None of them had Diemaco floor plates but the reserves would have got them last (95 or 96). I have come across a couple Diemaco floor plates over the years but they've all been on grey teflon mags, not the proper black ones. Not sure how the ended up in the system but then again I've seen my fair share of USGI mags end up in our stores as well.

For the OP. As has been mentioned D&H supply all the mags for the CF. They're black teflon coated which is way more durable than the USGI dry film coating. We still use the original black follower, not the improved versions the US have used (green, now CB).
 
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These Diemaco marked magazines were part of a initial buy from the company in the summer of 1994 to allow the troops to prepare for deployment to Bosnia and Croatia. We had the new improved Thermold magazines which worked OK, but we had lost faith in them. Buy, the time the UN mission were over the all black magazines had fully replaced the Diemaco marked floor plates.
 
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