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Originally Posted by moreguns
If you have tried them, how are they? Are they reliable? I saw 2 sizes available.
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Yeah, i have...
I have the 8rd, 22rd, 30rd, 55rd & 70rd.
Here's my 2 cents... Or rant about promag mags...
The 22rd have some problems loading it, quickfix; stick a screwdriver into the Hole where the magasin mounts it to the well of the rifle, and the following rounds will follow suite... ..but you have to have some tool to load over the mentioned barrier of this mag, and thats just bad...and sad.. have ONLY tried IT with viper, seems to cycle good, but not perfect with this ammo.
30rd; well, every bad thing said about this mag is true. enough Said.
55rd & 70rd drum, has a spesial way loading, where you have to drag the drum while feeding it, so it even says in the manual, yes IT comes with a manual (just a regular piece of papir explaing how to feed the mag bullets..
Easly done really..
..but the worst part is the plastic, i repeat, the worst part is that this "great" polymer plastic is brittle. mine broke under The pressure while i was loading it (according to the manual, i might add), i fixed
the broken top with a small 1,5mm drill bit, glue and a piece of metall
But on the drum, inside, there was a piece of soft plastic, holding the "plastic-bullets" (which pushes the last bullets out) that also broke of when the top broke and the bullets flewed out.
So i had to open this fu.. ..so i opened this drum, which is pretty darn difficult without breaking it (again, the "great" polymer plastic is verry brittle).
Not an easy fix on this part...
So..
I contacted promag through mail about getting sent replacement part, Even offered to pay shipment, since i live in norway, the Reply, well i have not gotten a reply yet, but its ONLY been like three months..
Im thinking of getting the plastic top of the 55rd (the part that goes in to the rifle) replaced with a metall part, but i need to get it drawn in 3d cad (or scanned in 3d), and made in either aluminium or some other sort of metal.. ..so its a long project... And not done yet. Hopping this maybe will make that mag better... But im not holding my breath.
Why is there no one making aluminum/metal mags with 22rd capasity is beyond my understanding..
Long story short;
plastic/polymer is NOT great.
Ipso facto drum is not great, and 30rd is not great, 22rd is not great...
I hope promag will go bankrupt for selling, what is defently a good looking piece of crap mag (specially the 55rd, size-wise looks good om the rifle, (better then the 70rd). I might be overreacting you think, but i think its a reasonable reaction when you get your mail just ignored...
I would recommend this about promags: dont by it, its crap, if you have to have a high capasity, buy just one 22rd, and wait for some entrepeneure to stake his claim with a metal made magazine...
Sorry for my poor english, IT is not my first language.. 🙂