Ammo To Go did the testing so you don't have to!
tldr: Your magazine springs are going to outlast both the gun and the magazine body.
This conflicts with personal experience a little bit.
When I changed over from Daewoo DR-200 to AR-15 I found that my "hoard" of USGI black-follower 30-rounders pretty consistently failed to feed the last three rounds in the AR's but worked fine in the DR-200.
Replacing the followers and springs cured it. Since I did both at the same time I am not sure if it was the new spring or the Magpul anti-tilt follower that did it.
The magazines in question were obtained from an Iowa National Guard soldier who probably snagged them from the DX bin.
I still have them someplace, but I haven't seen them in years. I bought a ton of new magazines to supplement them, you never know when the next AWB will hit.
since i have a bunch of the older military mag holders, they don't fit the magpul mags very well so i tend to stick with the old metal style mags...what i learned with and unless ran over by a tank or something like that, they are pretty sturdy mags...panzer guy
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of the USGI gray aluminum magazines with Magpul followers in them.
DeleteAnd a lot of PMAGs.
My plate carrier can take both mags readily. My M1956 and ALICE web gear don't take PMAG. Heck, the M1956 doesn't take 30-rounders!