which one? pro-mag's 72 round drum is a direct copy of the chinese one except in polymer and also not made by pro-mag (they outsourced it to state factory 36 and import them). promag's square drum mags are actually made by them.
oh my bad clubby it's a 15 round drum in 12ga. tangentially related; you or anyone else here ever mess around with magpul's MP5 drums? i almost want one but also
yeah i have one for funsies and works fine on both an MP5A2 and MP5-PDW. i haven't tried it on an SD but i assume it would work alright too. the problem is that it is incredibly annoying to use because it blocks the use of the forearm or VFG (or makes i really awkward), and i dislike holding the gun by the mag in most cases since it has a chance of messing with the feed. it does work well if i swap the forearm with a railed version and stick a VFG side-ways HK21 style, but even that's not ideal with knuckle clearance issues.
good to know. i've got the wide mlok forend and a light/pressure switch on the right side as seen here and even if the drum is for smiles and laughs i don't want access to that being a pain. maybe i'll go with a couple of 40rnd ETS mags for half of what magpul wants. their 30 rounders have worked fine as far as range mags go.
Awh sweet some pretentious foreigner shitting on my hobbies! can't wait for this one!
well, a poor temper (too low temperature) on older steel formulations would often have an unpredictable plastic yield or even become brittle through work hardening and take a "set" which permanently deforms the spring at an inappropriate elastic point. pre-stressed steel going through annealing and tempering takes a large bite out of the ultimate strength of a spring beyond this yield point and as long as the spring isn't compressed or expanded beyond the limit, it should never reach a point of losing strength or taking a set. you can look up young's modulus if you want the math end of things.
pretty sure its repeated loading and unloading that does it. Probably comes from shooters' mags going bad after thousands and thousands of rounds and thousands of matches and they misattribute the cause.
Wolff(gunsprings.com) offers separate magazine springs, and there are rebuild kits with a new follower, spring and baseplate(sometimes).
You likely can. Wolff.and other companies make replacement springs for mags and guns. Pretty cheap too. I have some for some magazines for old ass guns where the mags are almost unobtainable.
most people don't consider anything a wear part. To be honest, I never heard of replacing barrels until i heard some PRS guy preaching a sermon on how .243 will "shoot out" a barrel at 1,000 rounds and it must be replaced. Meanwhile my Shooting mentor's .243 hunting rifle is 40 years old and has been shot a shit ton (the man lives to shoot) and it'll still hit steel at 300 yards every time.
God damn, and he could actually run it well before Murphy's Law caught up. Props to him for basically marketing the deagle as a USPSA pistol in 2025.
to be fair its the .357 mag version AKA the only good deagle.
Huh. Son of a bitch. I've been aware of Wolff for a while, but I never looked into what they make beyond recoil springs and mainsprings.
I was always told to keep an eye on barrels because they'll have to go eventually, but they're not a frequent replacement. Just to glance down there every few thousand rounds to see if anything looks majorly wrong. I know I'm going to have to replace several when my grandfather dies because he's got a few rifles he's basically converted to smoothbores.
I agree that keeping magazine rebuild parts on hand for rare or expensive magazines is a good idea. I also think treating magazines as expendable parts is a good idea, especially if it's for a firearm that one uses a lot.
I've got like three 30 round ruger p89 pro mags from $10 mystery mag bins. They suck ass
Barrels only really wear out in the first few inches of barrel past the chamber, and only really for over bore cartridges like the quarter bores and smaller. and "burnt out" barrels to most of these guys means the groups open up to over 1 MOA.
Mad lad. I keep thinking about bringing my garand and 1911 for some 2 gun… but I’d practically be setting money on fire with m2 ball being like $1.25 a round.
