Anyone using them? I picked up a half dozen from Midway and they really don’t seem as solid as the Pmags but a lot of real world testing has been done and I guess that’s not the case. Comments?
flimsy but resilient. were it not for shortages, i would not have bought any, but i decided to try them out. good mags, but 30 rounds feels like too much. i go with 28.
lightweight, feed well, they seem to hold up…but im not gonna drive a truck over one. dollar for dollar they’re no PMag, but you can buy them right now for a fair price without having to get lucky…
Supposedly, they HAVE driven trucks over them and they DID hold up. They definitely don’t feel as stout as a P-Mag - and I was skeptical - but so far I’ve been pretty happy with my 10.
Mine seem to feed fine (no malfunctions over a few hundred rounds), but occassionally they fail to hold the bolt open after the last round due to the follower not fully engaging the bolt catch. This has happened with more than one magazine (I have 10) and in different rifles (three different Noveske N4 uppers on a Bushy lower, a Sundevil lower with Grant’s LPK and an Arizona Armory lower with Grant’s LPK. I’ve never had this problem with Pmags or standard USGI mags. I’m still testing them out though.
I have about a dozen of these mags and have used them in two courses (Vickers Advanced Pistol/Carbine and Pat Rogers’ 3-day Carbine Operators Course). I have yet to experience any issues with any of my Lancer mags.
IMHO, they are great for use as training and practice mags. This is specially true when you need downloaded mags. Whetehr or not they are good enough for use in callouts or extended duty, I really don’t know. I am not qualified to make the call one way or another. YMMV.
I ordered four of them just to try since Grant at G&R had them in stock and I like them. I haven’t used them all that much yet, maybe a hundred rounds through each one. They all fell out of my range bag, along with some USGI aluminum mags and no rounds came out of the L3 mags while they did come out of the aluminum mags. But my first shipment of pmags is supposed to show up Monday so they will probably not see mych use for a while.
I bought 6 of them this summer to try them out and I have not had a problem with them so far. I only load them with 28 also, anymore and they become hard to seed.
Great mags. I have a ton. They are a very flexible material so they simply compress and return to their shape. PMAG’s went a different route and decided on thick and rigid
Keep in mind, these mags were designed in conjunction with Colt Canada/Diemaco. They’ve been well tested and abused
Different engineering philosophies and pros and cons to either. I have ONE Lancer that I received as a sample and it is a nice magazine.
There is more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to making a solid mag.
My point being the PMAG solution isnt the only, or final solution
Yes, I agree.
I have been happy with my L5 magazines and they are my first choice ‘go to’ mags. My local LEO/Class 2 dealer sold over 500 L5 mags to us LE officers and various local agencies out here and we have been happy with them. So for whatever reasons Magpul would not ship Pmags to a NYS Class 2/LE dealer, IMHO I feel that Lancer is just as good as the Pmag over the standard GI magazine. I still get my Pmags from Brownells though if/when they get them back in stock.
I have 15 of these and with about 2k through them i have had no problems with these mags Imho i think they are gtg.(good to go)
Sounds like most of us are on the same page and agree that they are a decent, solid mag that will hold up. People tend to buy what they recognize in terms of “the big names”. Lancer isn’t quite there yet but I have a feeling they will be before long. There still in stock and available at most places which tells me again that people just fly right past them looking for Pmags, etc.
Lets put it this way, I have yet to hear anyone say a lancer mag doesnt work well…
I load mine to 30 and buy them every chance I get. Outstanding mags. Wish I had them in the Corps. Same goes for PMags.
True! They only cost about $3 more than a P-Mag and they are available. They will dry up when the secret gets out…
Ive been happy with mine…
There is videos on AR15.com of a guy who tied a rope around his and tied it to his car and through it out the window while doing 60 down a road…lots of other crazy things like that and it still functions fine…
With the Dealer’s Price (assume you have a C&R license, no reason any gun owner shouldn’t have one) of $16.99 at Midwayusa (out of stock at the moment), I think they are decent deal. I got 5 of them myself. Haven’t give me any problem what so ever thus far, given the extremely low round counts right now.
Agree,I think the the harder the P-mag is to find and more and more people start to use the lancers(with good results) i think people will start to hoard these too.