Posted: 6/14/2009 2:15:40 PM EDT
| I'm looking for some decent mags in the $15-$20 price range for my Kimber Custom II. What suggestions do you guys have? thanks |
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Personally I would go with used Wilson 47s on the Equipment Exchange. Others would recommend Chip McCormick Powermags (they're not for me, but enough people have had good results with them... CMC Shooting Stars OTOH are crap). It is YOUR opinion that CMC shooting stars are crap. I however, have a dozen that I've been using since 01 with NO mag related issues what so ever. I would buy another one tomorrow without hesitation. |
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Personally I would go with used Wilson 47s on the Equipment Exchange. Others would recommend Chip McCormick Powermags (they're not for me, but enough people have had good results with them... CMC Shooting Stars OTOH are crap). Yes this you can feel the quality in these vs standard mags im impressed with them, the only down side is they are like $30-$35 new 
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Personally I would go with used Wilson 47s on the Equipment Exchange. Others would recommend Chip McCormick Powermags (they're not for me, but enough people have had good results with them... CMC Shooting Stars OTOH are crap). It is YOUR opinion that CMC shooting stars are crap. I however, have a dozen that I've been using since 01 with NO mag related issues what so ever. I would buy another one tomorrow without hesitation. Good. Keep buying them yourself, since you have all the good luck with them or feel free to offer these "gems" in a sale to the OP. When you recommend them to others however, perhaps you should consider that your dozen mags isn't the most persuasive of accounts particularly with respect to the multitude of reported bad experiences of shooting stars. But hey, maybe you can convince everybody that Auto Ordinance is really the smart man's Wilson Combat seeing how the whopping two you bought over the years never happened to malfunction as well. Shit mags. |
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When did i buy two AOs?
And while we're on the line here a "multitude?" mul·ti·tude (mlt-td, -tyd) n. 1. The condition or quality of being numerous. 2. A very great number. If there are a "multitude" of problems then some of them should be documented somewhere. Lets see them. Chip McCormick is a pretty well respected guy in the shooting community and if he was selling the total crap that you claim, he wouldn't hold that distinction for long. There isnt a product on the planet that doesn't have a few problems and I'm sure Shooting Star mags are no exception. That being said, Bring on the multitude! |
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Sub $20, the best deal now is to call Metalform and order some of their 7rd. blued "5 hole" magazines for $13 each - they are 1/2 off through I think today, so call now! Normal price is 25 or 26.
After that, the next tier of price/quality to me is Colt magazines at $25 each new from impact guns. My experience is that a Colt brand or OEM magazine (Checkmate, Metalform) should run 100% in an in-spec gun. If they don't, it's better to find the problem in your gun than to buy an expensive magazine to hide the flaw. But, it can be easier to just get a Wilson and if it works, just stick with those. |
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Sub $20, the best deal now is to call Metalform and order some of their 7rd. blued "5 hole" magazines for $13 each - they are 1/2 off through I think today, so call now! Normal price is 25 or 26. After that, the next tier of price/quality to me is Colt magazines at $25 each new from impact guns. My experience is that a Colt brand or OEM magazine (Checkmate, Metalform) should run 100% in an in-spec gun. If they don't, it's better to find the problem in your gun than to buy an expensive magazine to hide the flaw. But, it can be easier to just get a Wilson and if it works, just stick with those. Thanks, just ordered 5 of the Metalforms, appreciate it. |
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Personally I would go with used Wilson 47s on the Equipment Exchange. Others would recommend Chip McCormick Powermags (they're not for me, but enough people have had good results with them... CMC Shooting Stars OTOH are crap). It is YOUR opinion that CMC shooting stars are crap. I however, have a dozen that I've been using since 01 with NO mag related issues what so ever. I would buy another one tomorrow without hesitation. Good. Keep buying them yourself, since you have all the good luck with them or feel free to offer these "gems" in a sale to the OP. When you recommend them to others however, perhaps you should consider that your dozen mags isn't the most persuasive of accounts particularly with respect to the multitude of reported bad experiences of shooting stars. But hey, maybe you can convince everybody that Auto Ordinance is really the smart man's Wilson Combat seeing how the whopping two you bought over the years never happened to malfunction as well. Shit mags. Please, tell us your experiences. |
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Personally I would go with used Wilson 47s on the Equipment Exchange. Others would recommend Chip McCormick Powermags (they're not for me, but enough people have had good results with them... CMC Shooting Stars OTOH are crap). It is YOUR opinion that CMC shooting stars are crap. I however, have a dozen that I've been using since 01 with NO mag related issues what so ever. I would buy another one tomorrow without hesitation. Good. Keep buying them yourself, since you have all the good luck with them or feel free to offer these "gems" in a sale to the OP. When you recommend them to others however, perhaps you should consider that your dozen mags isn't the most persuasive of accounts particularly with respect to the multitude of reported bad experiences of shooting stars. But hey, maybe you can convince everybody that Auto Ordinance is really the smart man's Wilson Combat seeing how the whopping two you bought over the years never happened to malfunction as well. Shit mags. Please, tell us your experiences. It would seem that during the process of taking every single Shooting Star mag ever produced, personally testing them and finding every single one of them to be crap, a few good ones must have slipped by. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=889344&page=1#bottom But who am I to argue with the multitudes? |
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...maybe you can convince everybody that Auto Ordinance is really the smart man's Wilson Combat seeing how the whopping two you bought over the years never happened to malfunction as well. not related to the OP's question, but i did have a guy at a gun store tell me that auto-ordnance (along with taurus) are great and wilsons are crap, and he also added that colt mags are the best and wilson mags are junk. there are those people out there. |