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Posted: 10/29/2007 9:21:32 AM EDT
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My 9mm carbine is a Colt clone and it runs fine on the C Products blackened stainless steel magazines. In anattempt to try something new I bought two of the polymer ProMag magazines based on a couple favorable comments here. They do not work at all for me. Rounds jam into top of the chamber and tie up the action almost every time. This ruins the ammo as it jams the bullet back into the case which will raise pressures to unsafe levels. If anyone knows anything I can do to/with these mags I would appreciate it! |
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What you can and should do is e-mail the company, Promag is generally a poor quality product. I've had e-mail discussions with the vp of Promag and let him know what my issues were with his product. He seems like he wants to address them we'll see... I wont buy another Promag until they address product issues. |
Sell them and buy more C-Products mags. Mike |
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Jeff at 44mag.com (where I got them) agreed to take them back for full credit toward whatever I want. This is more than I expected, so they are going back tomorrow and I have a couple C Products Stainless Steel ones (and 5 s/s 30 round 223 mags as well) headed my way. Feel good about spending $150 wth them for taking care of this $28 mishap. Jeff did say that the ProMag polymer jobs work with some rifles and not with others. Three cheers to Jeff at 44mag.com! |
Heh . Anit that the truth . It will split a Cav lower ight down the mag well when it blows just FYI .  |
Some people may not, but I've had great luck with the Promags, and will eventually order some more when I see them on sale somewhere. Even when not on sale, I believe they are well worth the price. |
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| My kit came with a 9mm Promag that works fine with ball ammo. I picked up 2 CP mags before even trying the Promag because it looked so cheap that I didnt think it would work, The CP's run fine too. I also have 5 Colt mags that I lucked into that dont always like to stay in the gun. |
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Due to constant malfunctions in the three Colt 9mm AR's I've either owned or fired, I went with Olympic for an upper and have been problem free since. The Colt I owned was LEO marked that I got a letter for back in 2001. I had three factory Colt mags and piles of converted 25 and 32 round Uzi mags. I was actually surprised when I'd make it through a full mag without a malfunction. My neighbor, even after the problems we had with that one, bought another Colt recently. Factory Colt and converted Uzi mags resulted in never once putting a full mag through without a malfunction. Before he bought some Promags, that is. He bought five Promags when Midway had them on sale for around $11 each. The one problem he had was that they would not lock in. All it took was a few minutes with my Gerber Multi-Tool scraping the moulding burrs off of the mag catch notch, and all five lock in and function 100%. He's never had a malfunction since. We haven't shot any hollow points in it yet. It's fed a steady diet of Win USA FMJ and cast bullet reloads. Even though my STEN mags are a bitch to load, the reliability with any type of ammo, FMJ, JHP, cast reload, etc, is well worth it. At the MG Shoot this weekend, I was playing with a short barrelled Oly upper on a Colt M16 lower, fed with mags made from 50 round Lanchesters with STEN tops welded to them, held in place with a SOCOM mag block. It didn't hiccup once all day long. Sure, it took a little longer to load them, even with the STEN mag loader, but at least we weren't swearing at it like the guy with the Colt 9mm next to us who kept having misfeeds! When I ever get the video from the shoot downloaded and hosted somewhere, I'll post a link to it here. |
| The inside dimensions front to back are shorter on promags than colt mags (and other metal mags I assume). This means that if I try running some danish surplus nato ball that has a fairly long COL, I get stoppages left and right. If I run 115 gr Wolf FMJ with a shorter COL, I get flawless functioning out of the same mags. The danish ball works fine in my Colt mags, it is just too long to keep from hanging up on the inside of the promags. |
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I have 6 promags that work flawlessly. I friend has an RRA that had feed problems with most mags including promags. We lowered the mag block about .030" and it feeds perfectly with every mag we put in it. In my Garrison I shoot various styles of cast bullets, Golden Sabers, Remington hollow points and everything else I put in my promags. G |
| i bought 10 or so to use in my colt 9mm.....over the years i've tried everything that has come out including the converted uzi mags (never did have one that would work as it should)....i've tried all the conversions of other mags that CDNN has sold over the years which were straight and curved (they work just fine for the most part)....i've accumulated enough of the colt mags to get me through most any fracus i'm likely to be involved in.....but all in all the promag works great in my colt system and is what i load to take to the range with me nowadays.....D I C K |
Right.... The mystical, magical, highly expensive Colt's aren't all that and a bag of chips. My CProducts 9mm magazines work far better than my Colts. And for that matter, my ProMags work fine (for range use). Nothing like a Colt 9mm magazine just letting go with a 'brass shower' of ammunition. |
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