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V, your memory ain't gone just yet! I think there's a slight curve to them.

Mine are straight. I'm about 300 miles away as the crow flys at the moment, but when I get back I'll dig one out.

Nine or ten years ago, when I wrote my first 6.5 vs 6.8 article, AA was marketing a straight, 17-rd mag. It didn't have a rear reinforcing rib, and may not have had the middle rib, but I can't recall for sure. I guess maybe those didn't work well, and that's when AA switched to CProducts?

I think you're right. Maybe due to different case taper than for 5.56mm? Doesn't seem like case diameter would matter, since there are straight, 20-rd and 25-rd mags for the M14 and FAL.

Now that you mention it-- you're right. They were billed as 17 rounds. I was only putting 15 in 'em (to keep increments of 5 rounds). I forgot.

I thought they were made by CProducts for AA. I'll see what the floorplates say when I get back. I might have ordered some direct from CProducts or 44mag.com. I ordered random batches back then of whatever was on sale. I remember getting one batch of CProducts mags (25 rounders I think) that were so bowed that the bottom tail of the spring in some of them was sticking out of the gap between the body and the floorplate.LOL i took a vacation from ordering them for a while after that.


Like Smokepole said, it was recommended that they switch to curved, but I don't remember seeing any. I do remember Bill A. saying they weren't going to carry them anymore, as they weren't reliable.

I'll see what I can dig up out of the pile when I'm back.