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I noticed that all three plastic magazines (Orlite, PMAG and Thermold) I have around here have a constant curve profile inside the magazine.

It's a lot easier to pull off making the inside and outside follow different contours than sheet metal.

Now I want to get more examples of plastic fantastic magazines to see if they do it too.  I bet they do.

I don't have them here already because PMAG has been working for me since... 2013?  2017 at the latest.

I tend to settle on something that works and stick to it.

What I'd been using was USGI aluminum bodies with Gen 2 Magpul anti-tilt followers.

The sand colored PMAGs is where I made my first big purchase of them and they've been working.

I still have all those aluminum bodied mags.

I think FuzzyGeff is the only person I've surrendered a magazine to since 1994...  And that was just to standardize on the M3 PMAG.  He got all the OG, Rev-M, MOE and M2 mags.  Many of them color matched his carbine, so it was serendipitous.

But there's reasons to be cautious about adopting new.

Working just fine at the range is one thing, working in a match is another and working after coming in contact with a private is yet another.

The Army tested a bunch of magazines and resolutely refuses to tell us which letter is what brand!

I've slogged through much of

ATEC Project Number: 2014-DT-ATC-M4CAR-F9278

Report Number: ATC-11684

on Scribd's free portion of their site.and "Golf", which is rumored to be Lancer, has a lot of failures, but they're nearly all a failure to lock open on an empty magazine.  I'd love to get a copy that didn't interrupt every 20 seconds to make me watch a counter run down.