cory Wrote:I think you're assuming just any company designs and builds the mag. I find it hard to believe that it'd cost Magpul (a company that specializes in polymer mags and accessories and releases newer gen pmags on almost a regular basis) anywhere near that much to develop a prototype and produce it on one of their current pmag lines.I think Bill was indulging in a bit of hyperbole with that "hundreds of thousands of dollars" comment. However, it would still require expenditure of no small amount of money to produce a magazine for which there seems to be negligible customer interest.
MagPul is in business to turn a profit. With "small-dollar" items like magazines, that requires high sales volume. I don't see that happening in the relatively low-volume Grendel market. Or perhaps you have an idea how to show MagPul they could be sure of getting a good return on their investment?
The only idea I can think of -- in the absence of adoption by some military, somewhere -- is if Mark were to produce and sell quantities of billet-machined Grendel magazines for the LWRC Six8 receiver set, as per http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...post101494 That would demonstrate a market demand, but how many Horde members would pay that much for mags, in addition to a receiver set that costs 2-3 times as much as a standard receiver?