Grendel mags?

[bwaites]

On arfcom he said "the Tango Down, PMAG and TAPCO all split down the spine" but "the Lancer and MSAR suffered little or no damage."

Um, apparently not: "The CProducts Stainless steel mag also died on impact with flattened feedlips."

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_3_17/468826...1#i4345555

I don't see much applicability to the real world in torture "tests" like these. I mean, how often are mags going to be run over by a truck, or dropped from a height of more than 8 feet? Let's see some testing based on the way mags are used in reality.

Well, it was 2 years ago!

Dropped? I've dropped my mags from height several times, jumping out of trucks, etc. I usually have jumped over a pickup side when its happened, and I'm 6'3" so they probably fell 7 or 8 feet. I've seen one run over, but it was a lost mag, and then found when the truck moved. It was soft ground and undamaged, and it was an aluminum mag.

The nice thing about stainless is you can bend the lips back, if the spine splits, you are done.

If I remember right, the MSAR wouldn't drop from his AR's, and he liked the Lancers.

All my stainless mags drop free, as do my Pmags, as do my aluminum mags. (Yes, I have about a dozen Pmags. They work, but for the price difference I would probably buy regular 5.56 mags now.)

I just wish we had more than one option, because having only one supplier of anything worries me!