I was looking at their site and noticed a deal for 2 Tapco "composite" magazines for $14.99.
All of my AR magazines are aluminum and I have them numbered. The reason they are numbered is so that I can identify the ones with bent lips or whatever the problem is that makes them make the gun not go bang.
Curious, I ordered a few of the magazines. They did take a few days to get here, of course Amazon has me spoiled rotten as far as shipping times.
The magazines are thickly made with waffle pattern reinforcement, the base plate is also thick and less likely to be damaged being dropped during a mag change.
In this second picture (apologies for quality or lack of!) you can see the base plate just under the spring behind the follower. The base has a long slot with which you can use a field knife or screwdriver to disassemble the mag for cleaning. The spring is SS, and the anti tilt follower has relief cuts around it to allow debris to pass through into the mag body instead up jamming your rifle.
You can see that 3 of the mags fit well inside a GI 3 mag holster.
The one problem I did have is with this Tactical Tailor mag holder.
The magazine on the left fit OK, the one on the right was very snug, the one in the center will go in no farther at all. Gi aluminum mags fit fine in this panel. I believe that the problem is the panel itself. First because the mags fit my old Alice holster fine. Secondly, this TT vest with accessories was bought used but has never seen dirt yet. It had tape all over it, but I'm sure it hasn't been outside, not in anger at least.
Ok, so how did they shoot? I only shot with 2 of them. One reason is the weather, the other was the price of ammo. I shot 60 rnds from 1 and 40 from a second.I never had a single malfunction at all.
In a few weeks I will go to a "class" where these mags will get a decent workout, if they fail I will let you know.
The best price I have found on P mags, which are by all accounts the gold medal standard, used by our troops in bad places, is about $12 from Midway. I think for just $3 more, for 2, I am going be ordering some more of these.
I am in no way connected to Midway, Budk, or Tapco.
BTW, thanks Harry Flashman, with out seeing Budk on your site, I would have never known.
Tapco has been around a long time. I always felt happy with their products I bought. The polymer mags work ok for me. I bought a bunch of surplus Israeli ones and the work in my Olympic Arms AR-15 and my Colt SP-1 just fine.
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