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bigcoastie
5 March 2009, 08:08
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii328/bigcoastie/tdmag2.jpg

Looks like the new mags will be out very very soon. You can't order them yet :mad: but as soon as you can I'll have my order in and let ya'll know how they are.

http://tangodown.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=126

adrenaline151
5 March 2009, 09:19
Yeah, but they're 25$ a pop, you can't take them apart, and they aren't made by Magpul:P What can they do that Pmags can't, for 10 bucks more?

Army Chief
5 March 2009, 09:26
That's probably going to remain one of those "facts not in evidence" things for the near-term, but the initial feedback on these mags is pretty favorable, and I for one am never going to complain about having too many top-notch options.

That said, after reading this paragraph on the TD site ...


A basic problem for plastic magazines is that they have to have a constant curved interior to be molded in one piece. There is no other way. But the magazine well of the M16/AR-15 weapon system is straight. So much compromise has to be reached from a design standpoint to make the two work together. So side effects of magazines not dropping free, are often seen. The optimum solution would be a straight upper section to properly present cartridges through the magazine well, and a constant-radius lower section to accommodate remaining ammunition. However, this design has been impossible to produce in polymer… until now.

... I would be interested in Magpul's opinion of this assertion. Seems to me that most PMAGs drop free just fine.

AC

bigcoastie
5 March 2009, 12:15
AC check this out it's a decent read if you ignore the I love this company or this is ugly bs. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=17&t=408793 It has some interesting information that kind of got me wondering about the TD mags.

adrenaline151
5 March 2009, 13:31
reading that just makes me want a "Made in Boulder, Not in Belgium" shirt.

Army Chief
5 March 2009, 22:16
That's pretty much what I gleaned from it, too. I'm not suggesting that the TD isn't going to be a worthy product, but the early dialogue to this point hasn't been terribly informative.

AC