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BVAC reloads are done on commercial presses so I feel safe in putting them through my guns. Others may disagree. That being said, I have shot several cases of their 9mm reloads through Glocks and M&Ps without issue. It's dirty and it's on the lower end of the velocity scale but I haven't had any issues with it.

Mags are boxed up and ready to go. Just need to tie up some administrative stuff w/ Maks before they can ship.

Got the order from Maks. He gave me some advance notice of what all was being purchased so I've been building extra mags with each production run to minimize the wait.

I just got a call from a distributor who got 20rd black PMAGs in. I explained to maks via PM that I'm currently behind by about 500 of them however I did snag enough to cover what I need to get shipped to all my customers, INCLUDING this group buy, and then some. So long story short, green light on everything.

FYI, folks...20rd black PMAGs are in short supply. Distributors are waiting on Magpul and I've managed to grab all that my three primary distributors for Magpul had left but am not sure how many are needed to cover this group buy.

Correct, 30rd mags have the four way anti-tilt follower which is more reliable than that of the 20rd mag.

Of course, of course! I actually have a case of "other" polymer mags for the AR platform that have been sitting for about six months. I was going to build another 10rd/15rd limited cap mag but I've been so busy, I haven't even had time to nail the production process down.

I'd love to but honestly, I am swamped with work right now just making PMAGs. The overwhelming majority of the mags I make are sold to other dealers and distributors and I feed a number of brick and mortar gun stores in 12 states.

EMAGs and MagLevel PMAGs are now part of the buy.

I think so. He's got the pricing from the last buy which I said I would hold to. I'll add EMAGs too if there's a request for them.

I use a semi-translucent material so the spring and the painted coil show up very well against it.

He kept track of who wanted what, collected money from people, called in the order, paid me, then was in charge of distributing the mags once I shipped them to him. Due to volume, I can't run the buys the way I did the first time (individual orders) as I am selling more mags through distribution than retail.

If someone wants to organize one the way Keith did last time, I'm down like a clown, Charlie Brown.

I'm here every day I just don't post much unless someone has a question or request

Thanks for the recommendations, guys. Even if you ultimately don't order from me, please look to your board sponsoring vendors first for all your firearms needs!

Funny thing is those MWS rifles of mine were used in a local SWAT demo and all they wanted to run were my super short stubby mags since that's what they deploy with in the field now lol

A little teasing I've got another MWS wearing a Bushnell 5-15 that I should get pics of sometime.

I look at it as there are commercial ARs and there are, for lack of a better term, military ARs. Bushmaster, CMMG, DPMS, Rock River Arms, Stag all get grouped into the former while LMT, Colt, BCM, Daniel Defense get lumped into the latter. In carbine classes, I personally have noticed that the commercial ARs tend to experience more issues than the military ones. Speaking with multiple instructors, they have observed the same. I don't delve too much into the minutae separating brands within a group because I don't think there all that much separating them as far as features/specs are concerned.

Tracked, hard data? Maybe at Magpul. From a real world usage standpoint, instructors see failures in classes. A good friend of mine shoots a fair bit and he's broken three OD PMAGs within a year or two of purchase. All failed at the spine.

Weak point is the spine of the mag. A crack develops with use. Feed lips don't necessarily weaken on PMAGs so much as they snap off. I've seen both failures on the range. Make no mistake, while PMAGs are a vast improvement over the original USGI mag, they are not perfect. They happen to be one of the best options, though As for color, what causes the colored mags to be weaker than the black mags are the addition of dyes. The dyes have different cooling rates and therefore through some voodoo of chemistry that I don't pretend to understand, the resulting colored mags are weaker than their black counterparts.

Got more in!

Not any time soon, guys. I think the last one before this was six months ago

Good to see you guys here!

UPS was good to me today and I've got some Mega stuff back in stock! The much-talked about, hard-to-find MTS4400S receiver sets are back in stock after being out of stock for about four months! And the ever popular forged lower made by Mega is also back in stock! MTS4400S sets are available HERE and the forged lowers HERE

Nope. I've used mine to build a bunch of ARs too. Have yet to have a single one come back due to failure/breakage.