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Who’s this “Robb” guy and why do you keep stealing his mags? Is he cool?
Mild Necropost:
Got one in today. Liking it so far. If there were a ‘Redi-Mod’ version of the Firebird that shaved some weight off (open walls, lightening holes in the middle) and you could make this a serious Redi-Mag contender.
Now if we could just get a BAD to market, life would be sweet.
Even though I’m just getting the rough edges off of practicing with this setup, its VERY fast.
It is very fast. I beat USPSA GrandMaster Dave Olhasso on the rifle then pistol stage at the Topton 3gun match a week ago. I placed 2nd on that stage.
The stage called for shooting four paper target on the left, mandatory rifle reload, then four paper targets on the right, drop the rifles magazine and clear the chamber and transition to handgun. So using my coupled PMAGs I loaded 9 rounds in the right magazine and 7 in the left one. I shot the four paper targets on the left, switched to the left side mag of the coupler shot the remaining 8 rounds, the bolt locked back and I dropped the mag and transitioned to handgun.
The rifle targets were full sized IPSC targets at 15 yds and the pistol targets were 10-12 full size pepper poppers at 40yds.
ETA: Springer Precision is now making a coupler that works with 20 rounders as well and is item #: SPPmagcoupler2030
The coupler for two 30 round PMAGs is item #: SPPmagcoupler
Congrats & well done!
ETA: Springer Precision is now making a coupler that works with 20 rounders as well and is item #: SPPmagcoupler2030
The coupler for two 30 round PMAGs is item #: SPPmagcoupler
That’s the one in my picture there too. I had a GREAT video with M855 on one side and some M193 on the other. Stupid corrupt SD card and we lost it.
The only thing that I don’t like is that it replaces the floorplate so it cannot be quickle removed from the coupler while still being ready.
What if someone made one for the new m version(with the dust cover that clips to the floorplate) where you set the may in the coupler and then somehow cliped the dustcover to the bottom to lock it in place?
The M PMAG’s dust cover is interesting in a neat, gimicky sort of way. Regardless, I care more about reducing the number of steps in my AR’s manual of arms (therefore increasing the speed of its use), than I care about where to store my dust cover.
Magazines are commodities, they wear out, break and lose parts.
I picked one up these for the 30 rounders and used it at the Blue Ridge Mountain 3 Gun Championship. It functioned well. It was nice when I had a stage in which needed to go prone for shots out past 200 yards. It provides for a very stable platform and a quick mag change when needed. If I need more than 30 rounds and don’t need to go prone, I usually use my Nordic P-mag extension that will hold 45 rounds, but this is much too long for me shoot well when going prone.
It fills a niche for me and does what I need it to do. Very well built.
ITW FastMag, Magpul PMag and Springer Precision Firebird centric videos:
how about the “issue” of recoil and uncovered rounds popping out?
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oooh i see in this video this guy keeps the covers on the pmags.
Yeah I dig this SBR myself, always have. However, it would REALLY look great with an ALL FDE MIAD, and a FDE Gunkoted receiver though.
Which muzzle device would this be?
He custom made it himself out of an M-60 flash hider. Cool eh?
These have been out for some time now so how have they been holding up? Any issues to report?
Holding up well. No issues. Brownells now carries them too.
I see two problems with this over the Redi-mod.
- You have to use different mag pouches.
- You can’t “top it off” by putting a fresh mag in the secondary position.
Thanks.
MG Lincoln-
Have enough users determined that the secondary magazine that is not inserted requires the dust cover during sustained fire?
I don’t have anything to add on this coupler but I’ve had Springer Precision do work on two of my XD’s (he specializes in XDs) and the work is not only amazing but he’s got some of the best customer service around. I dont’ think I’ve ever had an emailed question take longer then 6 hours to get a response…his alltime record is responding to an email within 2 minutes.