PMAG's from $29.99

Decades ago I had a chance to buy hundreds of AR mags at about $4 each. I passed on it. I rather regret that.

That being said, Mark, let the market decide. Don't pull the product based on a few internet thugs.
 
Deckard said:
Decades ago I had a chance to buy hundreds of AR mags at about $4 each. I passed on it. I rather regret that.
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Don't feel too bad... the magazines back then were a shadow of what is being made and sold today. Those magazines back in the 60's and 70's were crap by comparison to today's products... remember the original M16 magazines was designed, built and intended to be used once and left behind.

The springs took a set very easily... they corroded easily... the followers jammed and tilted... etc.

Today's magazines are nothing like those original mags. ;)

Mark
 
I've said it before and Ill say it again... Mark, please buy all your hardworking staff a coffee and send me the bill. Thankyou for bringing cool and otherwise unobtanium stuff to our country. ...Get Sal a bagel too if she wants.
 
$40 for an item that retails for $15 is robbery.

Like the tank of gas I bought in the states yesterday, $21. Today i filled up in Brandon, cost me $55.

Can someone explain to me why everything in Canada costs 2x as much as it does in the US?
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Don't be a fool... think about it. It isn't free trade. The US owns our raw logs, 10% of the fuel they burn has to be supplied by us even tho Canada doesn't produce that much fuel so we have to buy it for more then we sell it to the US.(thank Mulroney) They have rights to our drinking water and now that they are "dependant" on it we can't increase the rate for it. (some bs deal made a while ago when water was free). California doesn't have to pay their BC Hydro bill. The US walks all over us like a joke, most over fed Americans don't even know it. Any Canadian owned oil companies in Alberta?



Mark don't listen to the fools. If you bring in PMAGs they will sell. The #####ers must have ran out of other people to cry to.
 
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Mark's competition there you have it

When we sell you a PMAG for $39.99 (as an example) you are in fact paying something along the following lines...

* @ $16.00 US to cover the magazine
* @ $ 6.00 US to cover the pinning process
* @ $ 2.20 US to our US office to handle export paperwork involved to legally be able to ship the magazines out of the US... and that's only if we do them in 100's. The permit alone is $250 US plus our time and our base fee to State Department.
* @ $ 2.42 to cover the cost of currency exchange
* @ $ 1.00 to transport them from the US to Canada and process the Canada Customs paperwork, brokerage, inspection and clearance
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Pretty bad that Mark has been bugged enough that he gave out one of his business secrets. If he did that often enough he would start going hungery.
 
Yeah I gotta say, people #####ing and moaning about prohib stuff being turned into legal stuff and costing more, are idiots. plain and simple. as Mark said, if you can do it for less than him you'll have a good market. But I don't expect to see anyone do that, at least not legally.
 
Yeah the stupid mag capacity law sucks, if normal capacity mags were allowed we could get them ourselves from Brownells, I remember ordereing 30rd AK mags from the states back in the early 90's for $5 US. :(
 
It is the perfect storm of horrible export restrictions/regulations on the US side combined with ridiculous mag capacity laws/requirements on our side of the border. All of the BS, paperwork and pinning of the mag bodies add up to some very real costs that have to be factored into the final price... The bottom line is that if anyone could sell them for less and make a buck, they would have the market cornered and be doing it right now...
 
How about Defense Solutions Group mags with Magpul anti-tilt followers, pop-riveted to 5? That rivet does not enter the mag. well of my rifle. This would be a good alternative: perhaps less costly for us and more profitable for you Mark? Just a thought.

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Finding a cheaper brand of mags is not the problem, Mark is picky about what kind of product they sell, it is always about the best product for the best price that they can make enough of a profit, so they can keep the business open.
 
LTR308 said:
How about Defense Solutions Group mags with Magpul anti-tilt followers, pop-riveted to 5? That rivet does not enter the mag. well of my rifle. This would be a good alternative: perhaps less costly for us and more profitable for you Mark? Just a thought.
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I have standard 30 round mag bodies with Magpul Followers and even though the followers are longer, the position of the rivet still comes into contact with the magwell (at least it does on the AR's I've tried it in).

The rivets need to be filed down to properly fit the magwell and to correctly "drop-free"... at least on the various brands of AR we have here :)

At the end of the day it's not the magazine used that makes the difference. As I indicated in my previous post, the magazine cost is only a fraction of what makes up the final Canadian selling price. The other "costs" actually exceed the cost of the magazine itself and it's those services that people are buying when they buy magazines (or anything else that's imported from the US to Canada).

Mark
 
PMAGS... 'Seen 'em for $15ea in the US last weekend...

I suppose to be the latest most up to date coolest range commando y'gotta have 'em, but really... What's wrong with plain ol' regular AR mags? :p

Flavour of the month I say... What's it gonna be next?
 
gushulak said:
$40 for an item that retails for $15 is robbery.

Like the tank of gas I bought in the states yesterday, $21. Today i filled up in Brandon, cost me $55.

Can someone explain to me why everything in Canada costs 2x as much as it does in the US?
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You either have a bad memory or you really fail at math?

I'm gonna make it simple, and say gas is a buck a liter in Brandon. So you got 55 litres of gas for 55 bucks.

Same 55 litres in the US cost you $21 supposedly. Call it $23 with exchange.

You're claiming gas in the US is 42 cents a litre? $1.57 a gallon? Not happening.

I go down all the time and I save $8-12 bucks a tank on premium with a 60ish litre fill. It's not "half the price" :rolleyes:
 
Raytheon said:
The old AR mags made from Aluminum with the green followers were never meant to be reused. They were meant to be dropped in battle never to be used again.

PMAGs are extremely reliable, durable and worry free. Anti-tip followers help prevent many feeding problems found with old AR15 mags.

Watch the video
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Mmmm... pmag kool-aid. Drink it up... :)

I've been using run of the mill aluminum/steel AR mags for years without any problems... Clean and maintain 'em and they'll serve you well.
I mean WTF did people do for the last 50years... before pmags came about...?

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667 said:
Mmmm... pmag kool-aid. Drink it up... :)

I've been using run of the mill aluminum/steel AR mags for years without any problems... Clean and maintain 'em and they'll serve you well.
I mean WTF did people do for the last 50years... before pmags came about...?

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The way we can legally used AR's up here, it really has no bearing on what kind of mags we buy, however when Questar decide to sell a patch of PMAG's at $29.99 which is about $10 less than what people normally pay for the run of the mill metal mags, one would be silly to not but a few.
 
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