Pmag infomercial, lol

[Mr_Willson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCfcqjlooV0&NR\
because im tired of my magazines randomly catching on fire

 

[Richard in LA]

There is a LOT of information in that video... and it pretty well sums up some mind-sets.

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Even better is his description of the video.

gunninghillbilly — April 18, 2010 — bored in Iraq, so why not promote a company who's products I cant trust with my life. Thanks Magpul

 

[kengel2]

So, it's really ok, yall can give it a rest. I think everyone understands the fact that you don't care for magpul.

 

[jdindadell]

If you watch the vid carefully he appears to drop something into the al mag. So methinks the vid was rigged. I am not 100% on this so I have dis-assembled all of my ar15 mags and placed them in a bucket of sand on the front lawn. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Born4spd]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0vFV4BEtM4&NR=1[/ame]

 

[Born4spd]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDkZcAKQgBM&NR=1[/ame]

 

[Ben Segrest]

So, it's really ok, yall can give it a rest. I think everyone understands the fact that you don't care for magpul.

They LOVE magpul compared to The Red Horseman.

(NSFW-language)
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10675979&postcount=12

 

[Richard in LA]

So, it's really ok, yall can give it a rest. I think everyone understands the fact that you don't care for magpul.

I don't have any hate for magpul. I have some of their stocks, and a box of their mags. I was just pointing out that he "cant" trust them with his life, yet he is trying to say they are for professionals.........

 

[Nolacopusmc]

I don't have any hate for magpul. I have some of their stocks, and a box of their mags. I was just pointing out that he "cant" trust them with his life, yet he is trying to say they are for professionals.........

Why can't he trust his life with them?

 

[JadeRaven]

Why can't he trust his life with them?

Yeah what's wrong with pmags? I love my pmags.

 

[Mr_Willson]

I don't have any hate for magpul. I have some of their stocks, and a box of their mags. I was just pointing out that he "cant" trust them with his life, yet he is trying to say they are for professionals.........

me neither!!

ive got nothing but magpul furniture on my AR and im using Pmags!


i just thought the video was funny

 

[Richard in LA]

Why can't he trust his life with them?

I don't know, email him and ask him, he is the one that typed it in the description of his "infomercial". Look at the quote in my post, the 3rd in this thread. I copied it verbatim from the youtube video.

 

[Sin-ster]

I don't know, email him and ask him, he is the one that typed it in the description of his "infomercial". Look at the quote in my post, the 3rd in this thread. I copied it verbatim from the youtube video.

Typo?

 

[Richard in LA]

Typo?

Probably so. My reply was an attempt at sarcasm that was taken as magpul hate, which it was not.

 

[Nolacopusmc]

I don't know, email him and ask him, he is the one that typed it in the description of his "infomercial". Look at the quote in my post, the 3rd in this thread. I copied it verbatim from the youtube video.

Got it. I misread what he typed. I get it now.


Wasn't sure who was going for the sarcasm...you or him.

 

[CloudStrife]

The only thing I dislike about PMAGs is that they don't stack nice and flat like USGI mags. They've got all those ridges protruding. Bullets do slide out of them smoothly though.

 

[Sin-ster]

The only thing I dislike about PMAGs is that they don't stack nice and flat like USGI mags. They've got all those ridges protruding. Bullets do slide out of them smoothly though.

They won't fit in my Pelican SOPMOD case that has cut out for USGI mags. Nonetheless, of the horde that I have, I have only opened one in an attempt to get it to fail. It has spit out around 5k rounds through two different rifles without cleaning, and never had a single failure. 55 grain FMJBT, 62 grain M855, 62 grain PSP, 69 grain OTM, 75 grain TAP and most recently, 77 grain SMK. Snug in the mag well, reliable and sturdy-- above all of their other products (of which I own many), the PMAG is by far my favorite.

I definitely understand LSP's point, as well as some of the other detractors on this board that have issues with their marketing practices. Both are efforts to elevate the training and products over other, equally viable options, and a lot of people find it funny/annoying/tactless. Frankly, I feel that way about all advertising, so I am easily capable of ignoring it. But they are valid objections, just the same.

 

[Nolacopusmc]

They won't fit in my Pelican SOPMOD case that has cut out for USGI mags. Nonetheless, of the horde that I have, I have only opened one in an attempt to get it to fail. It has spit out around 5k rounds through two different rifles without cleaning, and never had a single failure. 55 grain FMJBT, 62 grain M855, 62 grain PSP, 69 grain OTM, 75 grain TAP and most recently, 77 grain SMK. Snug in the mag well, reliable and sturdy-- above all of their other products (of which I own many), the PMAG is by far my favorite.

I definitely understand LSP's point, as well as some of the other detractors on this board that have issues with their marketing practices. Both are efforts to elevate the training and products over other, equally viable options, and a lot of people find it funny/annoying/tactless. Frankly, I feel that way about all advertising, so I am easily capable of ignoring it. But they are valid objections, just the same.

Wouldn't it stand to reason that every company believes their product provides something superior to others? Otherwise why would they bring it to market?

No matter what product you go with, there will inevitably be trade-offs over its competitors.

Other than stacking and backwards compatibility with relic GI issue gear, give us a couple of ways that the old GI Mags or Gi collapsible stocks are better that a PMAG or CTR?

granted, some companies are just putting out crap (TAPCO comes to mind) but according to many here, MAGPUL puts out "great gear"

SO what are these "advertising practices " you are referring to?

Could the entire US Military, which is slowly transitioning over as the enormous GI mag supply dwindles down, almost every person who carries a carbine in the performance of their job, and every guy I know who has done actual trigger time overseas be wrong?

i guess so.

I just do not see, in the instance of the PMAG, how it is not a superior product to most other polymer mags and metal GI mags.

And for the others, save me the MAGPUL kool-aid ****. This argument can be transferred to almost any product line on the industry, but this thread is about Magpul.

 

[f350drvr]

I have never used Pmags, have heard alot of good things. What makes them better than the metal GI mags?

 

[Nolacopusmc]

I have never used Pmags, have heard alot of good things. What makes them better than the metal GI mags?

That's my question...or actually the opposite.

Pros:
They do not get dented.
The feed lips do not bend the same as Gi Mags
They do not retain heat like aluminum mags.
They do not cut you like aluminum mags
They come in different colors for coolness and different ammo loads
They are easier to grip when wet / muddy.
They have dust covers, that may help for some.
They are polymer which makes them impervious to all conditions which affect metal.


Cons:
Currently more expensive than GI Mags
DO not fit some older gear.
Do not stack as nicely as GI mags



If anyone has more of either, lets discuss.