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- From: jimd@sfu.ca (Jim Davies)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Plastic Magazines
- Message-ID: <jimd.722497360@sfu.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:24:49 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
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- ##In article <1992Nov18.171411.17005@netcom.com>, pauly@netcom.com (Paul Yoshimune) writes:
- ### Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with Ramline's 18-round (!) Sig
- ### P226 magazines? I was considering ordering a couple, but would like to know
- ### what their reputation for reliability/durability is. Thanks in advance...
- ###
- ### Paul Yoshimune
- ##
- #Clayton E. Cramer writes:
- ##I used to think highly of Ramline's pistol magazines. I won't buy them
- ##any more. They don't seem to last long enough to trust my life on.
-
- #Every Ramline magazine I have ever seen has broken, usually the feed lips.
- #True Story:
- # I bought a AR-7 .22 rifle. It came with a ramline magazine.
- #I bought a spare ramline magazine for it. Took it out, shot it, and
- #within 3-4 magazines full the feed lips broke. I opened the other
- #magazine, it worked for a couple of months (at least 30 full loads)
- #and then broke. I never left it loaded, but the feed lips cracked
- #and snapped off. Which caused all the .22 shells to spray out at once.
- #Now, I was totally out of magazines, and couldn't find an original steel
- #one, so I bought a third ramline. Broke within 2 clips full.
- # The 10/22 magazines seem to be a little more sturdy... but they
- #have the same feed lip wear problem, and you can't take them apart to
- #clean them.
-
- Unless newer 10-22 mags are different, you CAN take them apart to clean
- them, and quite easily, too! Not having one in front of me, I cant
- give detailed instructions, but it is easy, using just ascrewdriver,
- if I remember correctly. BTW, I have never had a 10-22 mag ever wear
- out, and I have put a LOT of ammo thru many mags!
-
-
- # I guess I should have learned my lesson, but I recently bought
- #some Zytel M-16 mags (made in Canada). I've had way too many misfeeds
- #with these to trust them, but I haven't worn out the feed lips... yet.
-
- #In short, plastic magazines have given me nothing but problems. Platic
- #is ok for stocks, or followers in magazines, but I don't think it's
- #adequate for magazines.
- #
- Have had similar experiences to yours re RAMLINE mags :-( The quality
- sucks, I feel.
-
- Jim Davies
-