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of people that dislike promag. :p

Last summer I bought one of those 25rd promag M&P40 magazines.

I may have put around 1500-2000rds through that one mag alone. It worked pretty well for a thousand rounds but stuff started to happen. I started to get fail to feeds with the cartridge sticking out the ejection port. Last round would pop out too far and prematurely activate the slide catch.

Obviously, the feed lips are flaring out. That's about the worst thing that can happen to a mag. I don't think you can fix that without making it worse.

If I load rounds into it, push the rounds down with my fingers and then quickly release, the top round will likely pop out a bit too high.

Fix it or trash it?:D
 
I've had bad luck with most of the aftermarket brands I've tried. Pro-Mag wasn't as bad as some but it wasn't as good as factory.

I don't buy aftermarket handgun mags unless I can't find factory mags. The exception is Mec-Gar, and even then I prefer factory.
 
I only have one Promag magazine, that for a Beretta mini-Cougar 8000F 9mm. The Beretta factory mags for this pistol have become near impossible to find at anything I would call a sane price.

I bought this magazine off ebay with the understanding that it was a Beretta factory mag. The listing did not say that exactly, but it also did not indicate it was an aftermarket Promag. When I complained the seller simply refunded my money and did not even ask that the mag be returned. Probably figured it was not worth the cost of return postage.

Does the mag work? The answer is "sort of, sometimes". It does not want to lock into the magazine well properly and has sometimes just fallen out of the pistol. I have also had failures to feed with it which I have never had with any of the Beretta factory mags. Would I trust this thing in a pinch? Hell no!

Mec-Gar mags, on the other hand, are superb. I have 6 Mec-Gar mags for my Beretta 92FS and they are better than the Beretta factory mags. The mags for my new SIG Sauer P320 .45 are also made by Mec-Gar and are excellent.
 
I feel fortunate that the 5 Pro-mags I have for my Stoeger Cougar work fine.

I clean them every time I clean my gun which is a couple of times a month.
 
Mec-Gar actually makes some of the factory mags.
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Yes they do, and if they currently make the factory mags for a particular gun that's when I will buy their product if nothing else is readily available.

However, just because they make factory mags for some firearms doesn't mean that what they sell the factory has exactly the same specifications as what they put on the open market. That's why I still prefer factory mags even when Mec-Gar mags are available.
 
Way back when, first effort into IPSC, Colt .45 ACP pistols. Seven round factory mags, not so good, mil spec issue mags. Rubbish.

Tried various after market mags, some ProMags, not impressed.

When you draw a pistol, point it an adversary, press the trigger, first round fires, subsequent self-defense rounds do not feed?
This is not on a square range, this is at the 711 at )0-dark 30? Or the ATM!

You do not need failure to fire, ever.

All my Glocks, factory magazines only. My Steyr AUG, and AK47, the same.
 
JohnKSa said:
However, just because they make factory mags for some firearms doesn't mean that what they sell the factory has exactly the same specifications as what they put on the open market. That's why I still prefer factory mags even when Mec-Gar mags are available.
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I am also choosy about the Mec-Gar magazines I buy. Mec-Gar often produces factory magazines and higher-capacity Mec-Gar branded magazines with shorter, less stable followers (i.e. for the SIG P226), which I avoid. I do buy Mec-Gar branded magazines when they are the same capacity as the factory magazines (i.e. Beretta 92 and S&W 59xx). The one exception is Mec-Gar's Luger magazines, which have been excellent for me and no new factory magazines are available.
 
Fix it or trash it?
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If you'd have mentioned it at the time, we could now say I Told You So.

Factory mags are the only thing I'll trust.

(Which is kind of a conundrum, not that I've finally went and got myself a 1911.)

I am also choosy about the Mec-Gar magazines I buy.
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Even the Mec-Gar....

I have an XD40 Mec-Gar magazine. Not totally reliable. And I had to modify it slightly to get the slide to lock back (notch for the follower to engage the slide release wasn't wide enough.).

Last summer I bought one of those 25rd promag M&P40 magazines.
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You want super high capacity? Get a Glock and use the 33 round factory magazines.

Fix it or trash it?
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They do have a warranty. Send it in.
 
Well, I would rather trust my life to my Wilson Combat magazines than the factory mags that came with my Springfield Armory GI 1911.
 
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