Cheap High capacity Glock 17 magazines

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Alex Johnson

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The other day I was at a local hardware store in my hometown and I saw 17 round magazines for the Glock 17 for sale. The magazines were an off brand, not Glock, but they were high capacity, brand new in the wrapper and they were selling for $24.00. I don't currently have a 17 but was thinking that was a pretty good deal, is it only the Glock brand magazines that are bringing the high prices or are some of the other brands also up there?
 
Speaking from experience, if the mags aren't Glock brand they will probably be of very low quality. I had some 17rd USA brand mags, they were all metal, with a cheap spring, and a crummy piece of messed up plastic called a follower. Upon intial range testing the mags worked fine, except they would not hold the slide back on empty. I figured this wasn't anything to worry about since they fed fine. So I loaded one up with golddots and threw it in my safe. One night there was an armed robbery about a block from my house. The guy was on the loose and the cops were looking for him. I grabbed my Glock to load it up, just in case, and the freaking mag wouldn't let me chamber a round. They don't fit tight in the magwell so the actuall magazine body was holding the slide back. Keep in mind that I had fired 200 rounds through the 2 USA mags I had, and never had a problem, until I needed them. They were given away when I traded my 17 for a 27, I told the guy they should only be used for range work, so that the same thing wouldn't happen to him. Some will say that the metal mags will chew up the mag release, I never had this problem, but they only had about 100 rounds through each of them.

In short, if it don't say Glock, Inc. on it, don't waste your time, unless you just want them for plinking.
 
"...17 round magazines...$24.00."

Sounds like overpriced USA mags.

IMO, USA magazines would do a very fine job if US military forces in Afganistan were to leave USA AK-47 mags on the ground they had just left for Tali/Al Q forces to pick up and use.
 
Whether you like the pistols or not, Glock factory mags are works of art. They are some of the best mag designs around.
 
Not to start anything Mal, I love my Glock to the end and am a fan all the way, but I've always considered the magazines to be the weakest point of the whole design.

Both NFML and FML mags may or may not "Drop free" depending on thier mood. It seems I have to replace springs in Glock mags more than anyother guns I've ever had, and I'm already hearing more reports of mags splitting and the plastic just ahead of the front of the follower failing as these those pre-bans get older and older.

I'm also seeing the polymer separating from the metal lips of the mag on the "newer" pre-ban mags and some of the older ones too. The base plates also have a nasty habit of being hard to take off (notice how many older pre-bans have markes on the side where the bases were simply pried off) and frankly as time passes those plastic catches on the mag are gonna wear out eventually.

Now frankly none of this is Glocks fault. They could not forsee that a cheap item like a magazine with likely a 10 year or less expected service life would suddenly be expected to last 50 years due to the ban. But I'm really curios as to why you think so highly of the design, never really heard anybody praise it before :confused:

P.S. If you want "cheap" G-17 hi-caps try out Glock Talks for sale section you can buy them at $65 each nearly all the time.
 
Nothing started Blue Duck357. :)

It's obvious to me that you have had considerably more experience with Glock mags than I have, seriously. So I will temper my "works of art" statement and say the ones I have had experience with all functioned flawlessly. I have never been a Glock fan nor am I Glock detractor so I will bow to your experience with the magazines. I always thought they were a cut above, but maybe not.
 
It's odd, but I've never had any difficulties with the standard mags for any of my four Glocks. The only issues I've ever had were the Klinton 10 round mags for the G17, those are JUNK!
 
>>IMO, USA magazines would do a very fine job if US military
>>forces in Afganistan were to leave USA AK-47 mags on the
>>ground they had just left for Tali/Al Q forces to pick up and use.

:) :) :)

justinr1
 
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