Stop banging the bottom your AR mags when you insert them.
- Thread starter themarauder
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You're right but if your mags are properly pinned you shouldn't have any issues. When I did a CQB course a couple summers ago we were training to do first mag swap after four rounds and luckily I had made sure all my mags would easily hold 5.5 and I had zero issues over about 500 rounds over the two days. If you just buy your magazines and don't fix a bad pin job you are asking for problems.
For range shooting there isnt enough of a point to firing 10 rounds to bother paying the extra for the mags just because they have 10 rounds in them. If i ever found myself in a situation needing more than 5 I'll just fix the 5 rounders since at that point "judged by 12" takes over. Dont get me wrong I hate our mag laws, but I also really dislike companies bending you over for the privilege of 5 extra rounds. Especially since eventually the rcmp will pull a 10/22 mag on it and you will all have a bunch of expensive 5 round mags.
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This is true if you bench shoot. 5 rd mags are not very fun in TAC rifle or 3Gun matches where a stage has round counts up to 40. The $ savings on 5 rd mags is lost in extra bulk and cost of more mag carriers and extra mags.
I practice by downloading all mags randomly so none have 10. That way I can’t count my rounds, get to practice mag changes and save money!
Some of us do more than sit and plink from a bench and more than 5 rounds is needed.
I paid no more than $25 for each of my LAR mags...and that was at the high end...mostly around $20...Can you even get a decent 5/30 for much less than that?
I probably do more running and gunning than most here and I almost exclusively use pinned PMags, although I own probably half a dozen pistol mags and beowulf mags.
It's more important to me not to screw up my muscle memory by using different sized mags than it is to have 5 rounds when I'm in Canada.
Besides which magazine quality of a lot of the 10+ rounders is mediocre. They don't drop free or they need help seating or they don't feed well.
So unless I have a specific reason not to, I use pinned full size mags.
It's more important to me not to screw up my muscle memory by using different sized mags than it is to have 5 rounds when I'm in Canada.
Besides which magazine quality of a lot of the 10+ rounders is mediocre. They don't drop free or they need help seating or they don't feed well.
So unless I have a specific reason not to, I use pinned full size mags.
Tavor (at least mine) is especially difficult to seat a tight mag on a closed bolt. Everything gets checked, and if required, downloaded by one round.
And yeah, i slap the ##### on the bottom. Hard enough to give her pleasure, not enough to cause her pain.
And yeah, i slap the ##### on the bottom. Hard enough to give her pleasure, not enough to cause her pain.
Never owned a P-mag or a pinned AR mag untill I took a carbine course. I own 6 of them now. Reason, we were required to only use 5rds for the course (even in LAR mags etc) just to keep things simple and to aid in mag changes etc, which was part of the course. It does help immensely and I continue to practice this way.
I know in basic thats what I was taught. But it seems no longer taught for infantry. OPs way is how its done now. Seen a few guys get jacked for slapping the mag.
We only fill our mags to 28. Allows for proper insertion ckmpared to a 30
If a full mag doesn't click immediately on a closed bolt, you give it a slap. Plain and simple. It's even in the unload/make safe drill we have in the army (at least when I was in). Remove mag. Remove round from chamber, re-insert mag on a closed bolt and slap it. You won't break your mag, or the rifle.
I'm in the same boat here. Went from full sized pinned to LAR, coupled LAR, BEO and back to full sized pinned PMAG. They work well, drop free, insert well and I have regular capacity magazine at work.
Did several 3guns events only with 5/30 magazines and standard equipement and ranked very good. I'll keep my muscle memory over more rounds in magazines
Oh ! and they are cheap to buy and replace
