https://magpul.com/tmag-30-ar-m4-gen-m3.html
Part of me wonders if they are trolling.
They sure look interesting. But I’m beyond flush on AR mags, and I have plenty of Lancer mags anyway.
I don’t know why they would be trolling. They also announced P320 mags today.
Late to the party as usual lol
I’ll probably stick with lancers and okay mags
It is hard to be serious about this when Lancer has been making them ever since Magpul couldn’t. These don’t appear to be recommended for 300BLK use for those people who care.
Magpul does have .mil contracts for PMAGs, so maybe this gets yet another foot in the door for them.
Nothing about these makes me want to spend $24 on them.
Looks like I’ll be sticking to milspec mags as well. Although my most recent purchases have been Lancers that seem to work very well.
Must say something about me that I usually don’t say yes to all the “popular” crap like Pmags and gLoCk’s.
I’m typing this looking at over 150 AR15 mags and I count a total of 8 AR15 Pmags. Most of mine are NMHTG / Okay AL - HK polymer and C-Products stainless. I have another hundred Brownells milspec sitting in an ammo can in their original packaging, just in case.
This is only one section of my allocated Mag storage space.
The P320 mags have me interested but I would like coated not stainless…but the price beats Sig
I think they realized they are missing a big part of the market. While window mags suffice for me and I rarely stop engaging targets to check my magazine levels (I usually sorta count bursts or doubles when in semi) and rely a lot on bolt hold opens I have from time to time checked when shooting AUGs or SIG 550 series rifles.
I sorta wish they’d give us a standard MP5 mag and start cranking out mags for the HK 33/93 series.
After they spent two decades telling us we can’t have translucent mags because it’s not possible according to them. A day late and a dollar short. Lancer mags all the way.
Maybe it wasn’t possible for them at the time. Obviously SIG and Steyr have been doing it since the 1970s.
I don’t own any Lancers so I’m not qualified to comment on them. But I’ve been pretty happy with my Pmags since they started cranking them out. As someone who lived through the Clinton ban, you cannot have enough quality magazine manufacturers because someday this merry go round is probably gonna come to an end and a market flooded with millions of prebans is a good thing.
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I’m down to try a couple of these out.
Ironic. Friend and I were just talking today about how Lancer mags are the superior product in market. Nothing here is going to change that.
You convinced me. I’m gonna try some of these out, especially the crazy colors.
I wouldn’t mind having a few but just seems too expensive
I’m shocked at how many Lancer gays there are here. I swore them off decades ago with their first bad clips.
ETS mags are the way to go for this see thru nonsense.
Funny after extensive testing the US Military does not agree. I hope I never have to depend on my magazine at -60 but I still want the mag that can do it.
ARMY Tests Show PMag Superior, Led to USAF Adoption, Says Air Force Spokesperson
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/14/army-tests-show-pmag-superior-led-usaf-adoption-says-air-force-spokesperson/
Marines’ Approval of PMAG May Lead to International Buys
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/01/19/marines-approval-of-pmag-may-lead-to-international-buys.html
There weren’t any Lancer mags in that test though.
metal feed lips > being able to see bullets in mag. pass
That video was Magpul testing, the actual 2015 Army test the PMAG won was 10 polymer commercial magazines and 2 GI aluminum mags with different followers and why would Lancer not be in the test? To protect the different companies the Army identified the mags by using random letters A-L, Magpul was F and the clear winner and out performed the EPM but the Army decided the EPM is good enough so are still issuing them. The USMC approved the EPM for training but only the PMAG for combat, SOCOM and Air Force went PMAG.
The “see through” is a neutral for me but if metal feed lips lead to a “pass” then we should stop using all existing OEM pistola mags and most OEM bolt action mags…