Riffraff said:Even with say .22LR, I read things like "well .22LR only functions reliably in magazines of 10 or less" and you got a whole bunch of manufacturers offering 10 round mags and that's it for such pistols, yet we seem to be able to put 25, 30, 40, whatever in a rifle mag and they run great, a pistol here and there or mag hacks exist in .22LR carrying 15, 17, 20+ rounds and they run great. Most of our .22LR pistols could easily fit a 15+ round mag, but it's only the fringe brands who offer that sort of thing out of the box. Why is that? How do they choose this stuff?
If you were around in the 90s, you may remember a 22lr pistol by Magnum Research that took 15 and 20 round magazines. It was sort of Ruger MKII-ish, and judging by the numbers of them I've ever seen, very few were sold.
After decades of shooting pistols at paper, I have a five round cadence tattooed onto my brain. I can deal with 10 rounds in a magazine because I can follow the same cadence. I once had a 12 round Ram-line magazine, but always loaded it to 10.
People should be able to buy magazines in whatever capacity they prefer, but the 22lr pistol market may reflect a convention amongst customers as much as any real engineering reason.