"Back to the Future PMAGS"

AR/M4 AR General Discussion
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I was packaging up black no window PMAGs that just came in for orders last night (non M version) and I looked at a couple of date stamps. 12/09! on some of them. So I think Magpul is getting ahead of themselves here… But I had to look through the plastic in bad light (these are the white sealed bags so I cannot take the mag out) so I was only 99% sure of the date stamp.

Then today I was working with some newly arrived FDE windowed PMAGs and making parts kits for Cali customers so I had them out of the bag. On a whim I looked at the date stamp on it. Between 11/09 and 12/09. This one is out of the bag so I am 100% sure. I tried to get a picture of it with my iPhone camera but it could not focus on it up close so the pics did not turn out. However, I set one aside and when the baby wakes up I will get out the D-SLR and snap an up close pic :slight_smile:

Chad

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When Magpul gets caught up with demand this Nov. and Dec., everyone will think they got FRESH Pmags. :slight_smile:

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I don’t know when the change was made, but I got a few 30rd black non-window pmags from BCM on 2-5-09 and they are the old version with date code of 12-08.

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I’ve got two PMAG orders pending with you already, and I while I knew E-GUNS was good, I didn’t realize that you were so good that you could ship PMAGs 9-10 months before they were even manufactured. That’s epic! :smiley:

Are you filling FDE ACS orders now too, by chance? LOL

AC

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Chad,

Put them on Gunbroker and sell them as special pre-production mags or some such nonsense. They’ll probably sell like hot cakes.

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Magpul posted in their forum on TOS that they caught this when they were made and have made a note in case there is a question of legality later and that real 12/09mags will be the new design and therefore easy to id.

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“old version” is still being produced btw. It appears that they are not replacing current production molds/machines with the new style but adding in new production with the new style as of right now. I was told that only one distributor is getting the new style right now. Obviously as they replace production equipment they will use the new style to replace it with.

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ACS == wish I was… Supposedly several weeks out still (which probably translates to months LOL)

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Maybe they could do up a few cases of 8/94’s:D

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I have a couple OD w/ window Pmags with 11/09 stamps. Guess I won’t use them for 9 more months:(

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I think it’s an expiration date instead of a manufacure date? Those things will turn into pumpkins after midnight 12-31-09!:smiley:

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+1

I’d buy 20. And I’d be able to sell 10,000 more to the guys on CalGuns.net

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More likely a “sell by” date – I’ve heard that PMAGs go bad if they aren’t sold quickly, which is why I try to keep fresh ones coming in as often as I can. :wink:

AC

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About half of the last batch I got from BravoCompany are the 12/09 mags.

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Call them ‘pre-post-ban’ :smiley:

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Yeah that is the expiration date…

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I checked the 25 I got last week and they are all 12/09.

Dave

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So much for MagPul’s vaunted quality control…

Seriously, I’d really, REALLY like to have 10 PMAGs date-stamped 07/94.

Anybody think that MagPul would be willing to do a special run?

Bimmer

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Oh man, now that’s funny… :smiley:

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Seriously, I don’t want to get MagPul in trouble, but it sounds like the date-stamps can be whatever you want to make them, so why not?

For those of us in “un-free” states who are getting PMAGs as parts-kits to replace pre-ban mags and/or getting them as blocked 10-rounders, this would be a really nice touch…

Hell, if you just back-dated them to 1999 it would make life in California a hell of a lot easier. You’d sell millions of these to the guys on CalGuns.

Bimmer