Magpul Advanced Follower for USGI mags

AR/M4 AR Technical Discussion
1

In trade I recently received five packages of these Enhanced Followers (MAG110-FOLGR). I have some brand new USGI mags with the green followers. Am I wasting my time to change out the green followers for these Magpul followers? Will I see any increased reliability?

OH58D

2

How reliable are the mags now? If they are 100%, how could you increase that?

FWIW, I used to only change out the followers on problem magazines, and I’d change the spring and the follower at the same time. This was mostly on old “pre-ban” magazines during the ban and I needed to keep what I had running.

I have also changed out the followers on perfectly good brand-new magazines to the orange for better visibility in the gun, but not for reliability issues.

3

I changed mine out in two problem mags and these things fixed the issues along with a new set of springs.

4

These are totally new in wrapper magazines, so have no reliability issues yet.

Back in the 1990s I also refurbished USGI mags with new springs, replaced the black follower and switched to green, and coated with PermaSlik G. Based on the responses, perhaps these should be saved for future issues, if any.

OH58D

5

I’ve changed out functional Green followers.

(don’t tell the Magpul guys. I don’t want them to get the last laugh since I used to goof on the followers years back on TOS)

6

There is no need to change out the followers in mags that run fine. If the mag becomes problematic, change out the follower and spring.

7

I’d change 'em.
I didn’t have too many problems with the green followers, but I swapped 'em all out for enhanced followers 2005-ish just to be safe and haven’t had hardly any mag related issues since.

8

I changed mine out on the only 10 CProd Mags I owned (Bought a few years ago). Well, because they were CProds! The green followers stuck on occasion and were not reliable. They run perfectly now. The OD Magpul followers were only around a buck a piece and gave me reliability and piece of mind.

9

I like to change out the Springs and followers with ISMI Chrome Silicone and Magpul followers to ensure trouble free performance. YMMV.