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#10MinuteTalk - Metal and Polymer Mags: Why Two Types?

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Polymer Vs. Metal Magazines. Is one better than the other? If so, why? Jimmy and Mark tap into frequent magazine user/competitive shooter/Military and LE Account Manager/amateur historian, Adam Maxwell, to get his take on the pros and cons of each. Sometimes, to get the answers we seek, you have to go back to the  beginning. And for Adam, that is always “The Cold  War”.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody we have 10 minutes here with Mr. Adam Maxwell excited for this one because he said it would be a good solid 10 minute talk kind of toss this idea his way at first and just had the question of metal

0:14.0

Metal mags versus polymer mags metal mags kind of being I guess you could call it kind of a little old school

0:21.7

I mean, I think they look cool. They kind of got like a in a lure to them in some regards

0:27.0

Polymer mags sort of being what you see generally speaking most days now most commonly

0:32.4

We have AR mags here on the table. I'm pretty sure probably magazines when it comes to pistols will be a whole nother conversation

0:38.2

But Adam what

0:40.7

What do you have to tell us about metal versus polymer mags?

0:43.8

Well, I guess where to begin. I think if we like look at them

0:48.3

Well, like you mentioned pistol mags and stuff like that like usually when a manufacturer comes out with a firearm

0:54.0

They come out with a magazine to go with it and they're pretty much the ones that offer it

0:59.6

And a lot of folks don't know that a lot of the a lot of the design around a new firearm is

1:07.2

Actually the magazine and getting it to work and that's why you see a lot of magazines or a lot of

1:12.2

Firearms coming out now that use established magazines because a ton of engineering goes into making a box with a spring work

1:20.6

Well, it's a pretty important function

1:23.2

Yeah, you do want to feed the rounds into the firearm

1:26.8

Yeah, but such a to your how you alluded to it such a

1:30.9

Simple seeming thing. I mean yeah box with a spring and a plastic thing on top of it

1:35.2

Well, and then we get into especially with ARs or you could even look over into like 1911's things like that

1:40.6

A design that's been prolific for so long

1:44.4

Has now you know the patents are long expired everybody can make their interpretation of it and

1:50.7

offer accessories for it. We've kind of seen an evolution

1:55.0

Of what's available, but you kind of got to start at the beginning

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