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The best Carbine Magazine?

Printed From: The Carbine Collector's Club
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Topic: The best Carbine Magazine?

Posted By: Retired_LEO
Subject: The best Carbine Magazine?
Date Posted: Aug 09 2022 at 9:00pm

I am attempting to make my carbine as reliable as possible. A trip to the range this weekend revealed it didn’t reliably chamber the 1st round when inserting a fresh magazine. They weren’t even loaded to capacity. My 30 round magazine had 29 rounds in it and malfunctioned as did one of my 15 round mags.

I disassembled and cleaned them and made sure the springs were in correctly.

I want better magazines. What’s the best? I don’t care about cost. Thanks!!!

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Posted By: W5USMC
Date Posted: Aug 09 2022 at 9:12pm

a new old stock USGI 15rd magazine.

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Wayne
USMC Retired
NRA Life Member

Posted By: floydthecat
Date Posted: Aug 10 2022 at 7:42am

People do seem to have more issues with the 30-rounders and short-loading to 29 is not much of an under-load. Carbine magazines can be notorious for problems, you drop one on the lips and it might require tweaking again. Compared to the vast majority of magazines, the carbine mag is down right flimsy. There are other things that can cause feeding problems like the mag-catch or spring position. I agree with Wayne on the original USGI spec. 15-rounders and some of those are better than others. I find the RUGG to be among the strongest and the MN to be more fragile. There are better choices, but one must accept reduced capacity.