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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    HK
    /thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Wow, I was sure I had to come in here to say HK because no one else would, but it's the first post. Good job.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Famas

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frick no, famas magazines are all old and busted, to quote my chef "They look like Mia Kalifa"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That was

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    suresneed

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Steel for storage
    Polymer for frequent range training (use lip reinforcements)

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the ones that hold bullets

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    D&H (any that match cage code), Surefeed (any that match cage code), Gen 3 PMAGs. HK if you're a gay and want to pay more money for worse magazines, Lancer if you want cool clear mags for photos and nothing more.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >HK if you're a gay and want to pay more money for worse magazines

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        HKs are needlessly heavy for absolutely no gain in durability, yes. Just buy ribbed surefeeds if you want to pretend you have more money. If I'm buying hundreds of mags, I don't want them to weigh more than necessary nor cost more than necessary.

        This is coming from someone who has to regularly pay out the ass for meme mags for meme guns like my various Steyr bolt actions and older HK pistols.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, because paying more automatically means its better (it doesn't)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >anime reaction image
        Opinion disregarded, opponents opinion reinforced and accepted.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      HK mags are, like, $8. That's why I bought a shit ton of them when I found them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Did you forget to add a zero on that? HK is not known for having stuff cheap, especially not cheaper than US made pmags

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I found eight dollar HK AR mags at Ventura Munitions about five years ago. I was surprised they were so cheap, which why I bought all the ones on display. I have a hard time believing that its price has gone up so much since then. Maybe up to twenty bucks max

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Cheapest available

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              is this because of covid or something? i haven't bought any ar mags since that thing startred. also, i bought the transparent polymer mags

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      D and h are dogshit and surefeed was perfection but they are gone now.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Colt/NHMTG and Magpul. Get full racks of both you will be good. Some good reliable steel mags will compliment this. Lancers are cool.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Smoke Lancers are one of the coolest.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly I want some of those tan lancers since it's the closest thing ARs have to AUG waffle mags

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I bought some OD Lancers not knowing they were Gonna disappear. So far I like them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I have lancers and I personally really like them but once in a while I see people talking shit about them online. Have they fallen off in quality or something? What's with the haters?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I saw someone here say they did a thing when fully loaded, if you bonk the bottom a round pops out of the top, but I tried with a couple of mine and they didn't do it. I have 6 30's: two odg, two alien green and two neon orange, and then a few opaque black 20's, they all feed .300 blk great.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I prefer PMAG's.
              Surefeeds work just fine but they're a little harder to load than the PMAG.
              I have clear lancers as well and they do the thing describes, except it's not just when they're full. They do it at any level of emptiness. My guess is that the feed lips are a couple thousandths too far apart.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                GIVE EM A SQUOZE

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            there's fuddlore repeated by morons that they can cause a triple feed if you hit the baseplate against something hard enough

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              In some ARs Lancers do experience feeding problems if you have the rifle resting on the mag. Not mine though

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            My 7.62x51 lancers don't feed worth a shit in my LMT MWS so I never bothered trying the 5.56 ones.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Does it have a buffer spring that shaniquea could charge with her 4" glued on pinky nail

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They'll make more. The neon green ones dried up just as washington state was starting their standard capacity mag ban, and I saw a pair of them go for $300 on gb, and then a new batch released a month or two later and they went back to $20.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I think I read Gunmagwatehouse had them exclusively? I got some Foliage Omaha for my last project.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I got a boat load of these, mostly in smoke. Some black and some sand. OD would be cool too.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Smoke seems ok, the OD is nice. Should have got more. A lot of the .458/.50 Beowulf forums say the Lancers are most durable for tweaking to the big bores.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I have lancers and I personally really like them but once in a while I see people talking shit about them online. Have they fallen off in quality or something? What's with the haters?

          For some weird reason my AR is never able to strip the first round from the feed lips into the chamber. I basically have to rack the charging handle twice to get the first round in a Lancer mag to chamber. The gun cycles just fine for the whole magazine after that. I do not experience this problem with Magpul mags. Are the steel feed lips on the Lancers just that much rougher and tighter than on Magpuls? Should I get a stronger buffer spring?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Next time you load it take a look at the front lip of the magazine. The casing of the bullet might be catching on it. Lancers are pretty high in the front and it usually wears away over time. If thats not it then no clue why else it could be happening

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I will check them out right now. I never considered that. Thank you.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah my LMT lower came with a carbine buffer and the weakest spring I've ever used. It'd do like you described and sometimes while firing too. Another rifle had a H2 but some shitty spring that cycled slow as frick, and it'd do the same thing. Haven't had any problems with lancers since going extra power springs or the A5 system. Though that one mag I did throw over the berm so I was never able to determine it scientifically , but I recall it ran fine in other rifles that had Sprinco blues or JP extra powers

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I have lancers and I personally really like them but once in a while I see people talking shit about them online. Have they fallen off in quality or something? What's with the haters?

          I saw someone here say they did a thing when fully loaded, if you bonk the bottom a round pops out of the top, but I tried with a couple of mine and they didn't do it. I have 6 30's: two odg, two alien green and two neon orange, and then a few opaque black 20's, they all feed .300 blk great.

          I prefer PMAG's.
          Surefeeds work just fine but they're a little harder to load than the PMAG.
          I have clear lancers as well and they do the thing describes, except it's not just when they're full. They do it at any level of emptiness. My guess is that the feed lips are a couple thousandths too far apart.

          Latest gen windowed pmags with dust covers for storage are probably the best but I have mostly Lancers because magpul doesn't make a windowed .300blk magazine. I've used the lancers a lot and like them a lot.

          The complaint is that if you drop them or smack them on the bottom really hard when they aren't in the gun, that they are too flexible or maybe it's something with the spring but the rounds can bind up. Anecdotally people say they drop them on the kitchen floor or something and round goes wonky in the mag. I don't know if that's true. When I heard it I dropped a a few of my loaded lancers hard on the ground and they were fine. A round did pop out of one but I it was in no way a catastrophic failure. In the gun they're great. In a pouch their great. In the unlikely event that I drop one pulling from a pouch is followed by the unlikely event that it causes some kind of failure, I'm not going to waste time picking it up anyway. I'm going to just grab another mag and if it's my last mag... I mean what even is this larp'ing scenario anyway? Lancers are great.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    20 round OKAY gray
    Glad I got my 10

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Good man.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Try to avoid buying mismatched mags. A shit ton of one or two kinds of mags is infinitely better than a hodgepodge of random shit. Though after that, a few drums and 40's never hurt.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Edit: Also buy a couple racks of 40rd pmags.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frick that, it's fun to try different stuff. We're lucky to have so many options.

      For straight up function, Brownells with tan or magpul follower are the next best now that Okay Industries stopped their mag production. D&H is good but don't buy them from PSA, I had a few that were missing the resistance welds. Probably nbd but I'm sure they are there for a reason. Honestly just forgot to warranty them and it's been over a year.

      Gen 3 Pmag overall excellent, the bar by which the rest are measured now. Subpar for long term storage though, use metal mags for that. Yes, they give you the stupid caps that take the pressure off the feed lips. No, they don't always stay on. Use metal.

      Allegedly HK steelies have shit springs that give up after not a lot of use. Only steel mag I've used is an SHK(korean) which is decidedly ok. Don't see the appeal of steel over aluminum or magpul but yeah my one mag works ok.

      Lancers are good, but are more prone than others to pop rounds out when smacked from the bottom. Mine have been great aside from that. Note, that only goes for the ar15 mags, the AR10 mags are fantastic. Not worth the money over magpul AR10 mags IMO, but battle rifle without straight mag is just not quite right.

      For 300 blackout, both the lancer and magpul offerings have been 100% for me. Don't see why I'd use something else.

      https://i.imgur.com/eaXcc71.jpg

      Ive a fair few magazines of all different kinds and have tried even more. My favorites in bo particular order:

      >HK steel
      Great but expensive and heavy. No feed issues whatsoever.
      >MDS (Beretta) Steel
      As good as HK but much less expensive. Still heavy. No feed issues whatsoever.
      >Magpul P-Mags
      As far as I’m concerned they’re the gold standard. Light, cheap, reliable, and disposable if you want them to be, long lived if you want them to be.
      >Lancer
      I know a lot of people shit on these because of one bad lot that happened like 5 years ago now where a batch had follower issues if you bumped them right. I’ve never been able to replicate that with mine and to be honest while I may have a p-mag have a feed issue every once in a long while, i’ve never had an issue with my lancers. I’d put them up there as some of the best.
      >D&H aluminum
      The gold standard of metal mags. Light, dependable, cheap, disposable if you need them to be, long lived if you need them to be.
      >surefeed
      Like D&H just a little more expensive

      Ive tried thermolds, tapco, hexmag, mission first, troy , etc etc. basically all polymer mags except for magpul and lancer (for me anyway) have had a problem crop up. I havent tried ASC or Duramag metal mags, but i had issues with a C-Producs mag.

      I think everyone’s experience with mags is slightly different. A coworker of mine has a ton if cheap hex mags, says he never had a problem with em *shrugs*.

      >I think everyone’s experience with mags is slightly different.
      Agreed.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    gaypul, Surefeed, Brownells, milsurp tan, blue, follower usgi.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Magpul
    HK
    Any quality made steel/aluminum GI mags

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    tell me /k/ why am i obsessed with 20 round AR mags?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Drank too much frog water as a kid

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pmags are cute, but gi mags are good as long as they're newer tan followers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fnc?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What company did the mag print?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As A long as they have good followers they're all the same shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I have a bunch of Colts and NHMTG’s from my old job with the old green followers. Just put new springs and followers in them and good as new.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    USGI surplus

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I actually have a bit of info on this.
    I just hit the range the other day with a buddy to burn through some ammo my dad gave to me. He likes to drink and buy ammo and never use it and then tell me to take it. We shot about 850rnds over an hour or so.
    Out of that 850, around 300 of it was in mags that had been loaded since the George Floyd peaceful protests. It was a mix of Gen 2 pmags, surefeed, and some unknown brand stanags along with a Magpul 40rnd mag. I also had about a half dozen mags that had not been loaded at all.

    The only failures we had in the bunch was the 40rnd mag which was promptly thrown away. Literally every other time we pulled the trigger, the mags fed reliably. Literally zero upkeep bad been done on the mags and the guns were lubed just before we went out.
    We were shooting brass case if you're curious

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The USGI clones from Brownell's are reliable and long-lasting, according to the machine-gun range owner who posted on Arfcom a while back.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They should be, because they contracted for the military.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    CETME model L surplus magazines.
    They're exactly the same as normal STANAG mags except that they're made of thick gauge steel and don't have LRBHO followers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Lol. Cetme L mags were notoriously very bad. Every NATO exercise they would be begging, trading, and stealing for anyone else's mags.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not him, but.
        Magpul followers work well in them. For awhile, it was cheaper to buy a pack of magpul followers and the bundles of CETME mags. Replace all the followers and get 10 mags for like, 30 bucks.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >I also hear that if you shoot with them suppressed they get all foggy on the inside.
    That's not super surprising. Suppressing sends a lot of gas back through the gun.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that's no fault of the mag, you're gonna have blowback on a DI gun with a can that's just how it be

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Israeli Orlite magazines
    >light
    >steel-reinforced feed lips
    >all are "pre-ban" for people living in cucked states
    >made by Our Greatest Ally

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ...these are garbage...and they're sure as shit not steel reinforced

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i run exclusively pmags and have had zero issues ever. gen 2, gen 3, doesn't really matter all that much. i hear lancers are good for bargain mags. there's nothing wrong with us surplus steel mags, they're a bit heavier but they obviously work well enough. the fancier the mag the less reliable, 40rd mags are rarely perfect but some are ok. just do your research on those and treat them as range toys. 30rds is plenty anyway.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live in a ban state so the only 30 rounders I can purchase are ancient and typically old ass GI mags (tho they're old most of mine aren't used)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      See

      https://i.imgur.com/pmyGwxi.jpg

      Israeli Orlite magazines
      >light
      >steel-reinforced feed lips
      >all are "pre-ban" for people living in cucked states
      >made by Our Greatest Ally

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    promag. its in the name. you are a pro, arent you?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Please
      Remember
      Our
      Mags
      Are
      Garbage

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Steel ones. Not aluminum, steel. Some shitty batch had bad followers, just throw a magpul follower in them if you ever have feeding issues. I have some steel Koreans I got brand new for $5 and they're through best AR mags I've ever had. Lancer are the worst I've had, some don't drop free when they're empty since they get lighter. The dimensions are all fricked up and different on each mag, and it's not my gun because it happens both on an Aero and BCM. The old aluminum GI mags get chewed up and the BHOs stop working. All plastic ones like pmags will eventually bow out from pressure and have feed lips break off. The only ones that are going to last a lifetime are steel. AKgays already know this and still use mags from the 60-70s.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Black person who cares just buy mags that are known to be reliable and there are many and just buy a shit load of them
    I mean like you should have at least 40 30 round mags by now
    And some short 20 round ones for pushing your rifle out to it max distance and some 40s and D60s
    People need to jump on the D60 bandwagon not because they are good or better. But simply because we should be making 60 the standard
    Cause frick the feds and frick israelites.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ive a fair few magazines of all different kinds and have tried even more. My favorites in bo particular order:

    >HK steel
    Great but expensive and heavy. No feed issues whatsoever.
    >MDS (Beretta) Steel
    As good as HK but much less expensive. Still heavy. No feed issues whatsoever.
    >Magpul P-Mags
    As far as I’m concerned they’re the gold standard. Light, cheap, reliable, and disposable if you want them to be, long lived if you want them to be.
    >Lancer
    I know a lot of people shit on these because of one bad lot that happened like 5 years ago now where a batch had follower issues if you bumped them right. I’ve never been able to replicate that with mine and to be honest while I may have a p-mag have a feed issue every once in a long while, i’ve never had an issue with my lancers. I’d put them up there as some of the best.
    >D&H aluminum
    The gold standard of metal mags. Light, dependable, cheap, disposable if you need them to be, long lived if you need them to be.
    >surefeed
    Like D&H just a little more expensive

    Ive tried thermolds, tapco, hexmag, mission first, troy , etc etc. basically all polymer mags except for magpul and lancer (for me anyway) have had a problem crop up. I havent tried ASC or Duramag metal mags, but i had issues with a C-Producs mag.

    I think everyone’s experience with mags is slightly different. A coworker of mine has a ton if cheap hex mags, says he never had a problem with em *shrugs*.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have a loaded lancer mag that's been fully loaded continuously for nearly a year now and just for fun I tried seeing if I could replicate the round popping out thing. The only way I could do it was repeatedly banging it in such an angle and method that the top round eventually slid forward in the direction of feeding. It never just popped straight out the top. I tried dropping it on the floor a bunch of times, a round never came out. So, I guess if you don't use your mags as a hammer it's fine?

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Magpul straight 20 rounders

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    frick ya muddah

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pmags
    Lancer mags (kinda shitty with all 30 rounds loaded)
    >OG mags
    Colt manufactured (but like only if you perform the boomer magic of loading 28)
    Tan/blue followers or the "improved" homosexual acronym Tan painted ones (I dont think theyre surplussed yet)

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bulgarian steel are pretty good if you expect some rough treatment, when they were $10 a piece it was a great buy.

    Also, anyone know if the steel Beretta mags are still around?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >$10 a piece
      >AR mag
      >good buy
      fricking wat m8?
      brand new Pmags are like $7
      USGI mags are like $5 I got like 20 old Colt mags in an estates sale for fricking $10

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    40 round pmag

    worst is duramag

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      hell no, hexmag is worse nogunz

      duramag is fine. it's an actually functional metal magazine

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I use duramags and haven't had an issue with them ever

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Duramags are amongst the better 9mm Colt options, with Metalform/Colt being best, then Duramag/ASC. (For the non-Glawk PCC anons)

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DSG carries D&H ten packs but with a special DSG floorplate on them.

    https://dsgarms.com/magazines-dsg-4401-0002

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    magpul gen 2s for general use, surefeeds or D&H if you have surplus pouches or oddball guns.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    promag

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is it true that the gen 2 pmags have issues in the cold?

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Been buying the 30-round Pmag gen 3, since they're everywhere and cheap. No problems with them. I haven't tried anything else.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gen 2 or 3 PMAGS - literally all you need. Cheap, reliable, and no failures.
    I have a bunch of surplus GI mags and they won't reliable feed 30 rounds, I have to limit them to 28-29 rounds to get them to feed properly.
    No such problem with PMAGS.

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