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Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on June 24, 2009, 02:16:14 AM
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I am new to the AR scene. I just bought my first. I have the opportunity to buy Pmags at $11, which seems very cheap. Do I want to stock up, or would I be better off with GI issue aluminium? Any thoughts would be appreciated as I know squat about AR mag quality.
Thanks
FQ13
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PMags at $11 is an excellent price and I think the cheapest I have seen them. A lot of people swear by them not at them. I don't have enough personal experience with them to give you a first hand range report. I think that they are being used in the sandbox. Seems to me I read where a guy was sending his son HK Ar mags which are very good, but high $. Somewhere along the line they got some PMags and his son started requesting those instead. I'm not sure how they hold up in bitter cold, but there are some wonderful plastics out there now, so they may be OK. I mentioned the cold as I was reading a forum somewhere that a guy, I think from Montanna was concerned about it for winter use.
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PMags at $11 is an excellent price and I think the cheapest I have seen them. A lot of people swear by them not at them. I don't have enough personal experience with them to give you a first hand range report. I think that they are being used in the sandbox. Seems to me I read where a guy was sending his son HK Ar mags which are very good, but high $. Somewhere along the line they got some PMags and his son started requesting those instead. I'm not sure how they hold up in bitter cold, but there are some wonderful plastics out there now, so they may be OK. I mentioned the cold as I was reading a forum somewhere that a guy, I think from Montanna was concerned about it for winter use.
Thanks for the feed back Oh Great One (he who got me my $600 AR), but bitter cold around these parts is about forty degrees. I swear to God I finally bought a leather bomber jacket, which I've wanted since the first Indiana Jones movie. I found one at Sam's for fifty bucks. I've owned it for two years and its never gotten cold enough for me to actually wear it. Extreme cold is not an issue. ;)
FQ13
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I am new to the AR scene. I just bought my first. I have the opportunity to buy Pmags at $11, which seems very cheap. Do I want to stock up, or would I be better off with GI issue aluminium? Any thoughts would be appreciated as I know squat about AR mag quality.
Thanks
FQ13
Among a great many other things . . . ;D
PMAGS are great, and at $11, a steal - they are normally around $14 for regular, $17 for windowed. I have "a few" - they are excellent mags. Haven't tried them at -30 though.
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Among a great many other things . . . ;D
PMAGS are great, and at $11, a steal - they are normally around $14 for regular, $17 for windowed. I have "a few" - they are excellent mags. Haven't tried them at -30 though.
Path
At thirty below this Florida boy is only going to need one shot, and that will be to put me out of my misery. ;D
FQ13
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Load up, Have you seen the weather report for Flordia. ;D
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I have a couple Pmags and will be getting more soon. Damn near indestructible and the dust cover allows you to store full mags without deforming the feed lips. The price is definitely right.
DK
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Military surplus used mags are $15 +
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Military surplus used mags are $15 +
cproducts go for about $12
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Pmags are outstanding magazines.
Buy all you can afford at that price, then sell your first born and buy some more.
USSA-1
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I have "a few"
Just curious,,,,,a few what.......hundred?? :)
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Just curious,,,,,a few what.......hundred?? :)
Just . . . a "few" 8) ;)
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Hey FQ, I have a friend in the area of West Palm who is looking for a place to shoot his SKS. Can you give he or I an idea of where to go and shoot? He lives outside a golf course the is PGA (Not sure if it is around Royal Palm or not?) area. He also owns my old Smith and Wesson 6906 that I would like to get back; but he would like to shoot.
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Hey FQ, I have a friend in the area of West Palm who is looking for a place to shoot his SKS. Can you give he or I an idea of where to go and shoot? He lives outside a golf course the is PGA (Not sure if it is around Royal Palm or not?) area. He also owns my old Smith and Wesson 6906 that I would like to get back; but he would like to shoot.
There's not a lot around here. Gator Guns in WPB and the Delray Shooting Center have 100yd ranges, but its house ammo only due to liability issuses. >:( The SO range has days open to civilians, but I've never messed with it.
FQ13
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Well, will he still get some range time somewhere FQ? I told him I would try to find out and just realized how close you are. Rather convenient. Personal message me a good place to go and not waste money. Thanks, Ping
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Well, will he still get some range time somewhere FQ? I told him I would try to find out and just realized how close you are. Rather convenient. Personal message me a good place to go and not waste money. Thanks, Ping
I'll reply here as there are a few folks in the area. Gator isn't bad. $13 per hour and about that for a 50 rd box of 9mm. Its a nice range, but no rapid fire, though double taps seem to be ok. I've not used the rifle range yet, though that will change when the AR arrives on Thursday, and they assured me, to my shock, that they were cool with buckshot. I just assumed they wouldn't be due to fear of damage to the frames.
Not ideal, but ok.
FQ13
PS Their retail prices range from the VERY occasional bargain, to high, to outrageous. This is too bad, as I'll buy local if its a little bit more. Twice the going rate, not so much.
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Like Path, I have a 'few'. They are far and away my favorite mag for the AR. Never had a single lick of trouble with them. At $11 I would do like USSA said and buy as many as you can afford.
Here is a little video that shows how well they hold up if you ever happened to run over the thing. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFXcOOb4jc