ETS Group Translucent AR Magazines with Coupling System

[markm]

For what it's worth - I did experience a lot of jams with the DDMK18. After every couple of rounds, the round would fail fully seat in the chamber, or would have a failure to feed. But like I said, this was the dirtiest gun they had + the can. Just to prove it wasn't the magazine - I ran that same mag the same day on one of their DDM4 (not sure which). Did a mag dump and it worked flawlessly.

Those friggin DD 10.3s are so ridiculously over gassed it's amazing the things run at all without suppressors.. let alone with a can. A mag spring simply can NOT keep up with such absurd bolt speeds.

[Thompson]

Those friggin DD 10.3s are so ridiculously over gassed it's amazing the things run at all without suppressors.. let alone with a can. A mag spring simply can NOT keep up with such absurd bolt speeds.

Something I didn't really look for back then - but I could definitely see that now that you mention it. I'll look out for that the next time I shoot it.

[UWone77]

Ran the ETS magazine yesterday:

Used it as my primary magazine, typically in a 4 magazine rotation.

Shoot just over 500 rounds or so.

Dropped it free, frequently onto the concrete.

The magazine ran well. A couple of guys who had never seen a translucent magazine were impressed with the novelty of it (these were not gun guys obviously)

The magazine had no damage, and no malfunctions. I say no malfunctions, but I did have an instance when I dropped free the magazine during a couple of secondary malfunction drills. The magazine fell feed lips first into the mud. Because of the low light, I did not initially notice a large amount of mud had scooped into the magazine. The gun would not feed until I cleared the mud. I don't blame the magazine for this malfunction.

I'll continue to run the ETS magazine.

[ETSGroup]

Ran the ETS magazine yesterday:

Used it as my primary magazine, typically in a 4 magazine rotation.

Shoot just over 500 rounds or so.

Dropped it free, frequently onto the concrete.

The magazine ran well. A couple of guys who had never seen a translucent magazine were impressed with the novelty of it (these were not gun guys obviously)

The magazine had no damage, and no malfunctions. I say no malfunctions, but I did have an instance when I dropped free the magazine during a couple of secondary malfunction drills. The magazine fell feed lips first into the mud. Because of the low light, I did not initially notice a large amount of mud had scooped into the magazine. The gun would not feed until I cleared the mud. I don't blame the magazine for this malfunction.

I'll continue to run the ETS magazine.

I'm glad to hear they ran well for you. Thanks for taking the time to post.

[Eric]

I added a short review here. I've been running the non-coupled version.

[JHoward]

Nice review!

[ETSGroup]

Thanks for taking the time to write up that review! We will change the top round to the opposite side in the next gen.

Also, I think we have permanently fixed the issue where the follower can break sometimes in a violent drop. We removed the back leg on the follower, this prevented all that strain on such a small area when an impact occurs. Since making that change and testing I have now dropped a few mags over 30 times and have yet to see a broken follower.

I'm glad to hear they are standing up to any abuse you throw at them in your classes. Please continue to run them and let us know how they hold up for you in the long run. We have a few members of a SEAL team testing them for us and they have put a lot of rounds though them in training exercises and have not had one malfunction yet.

We are very excited about all of the great feedback coming in.

Thanks again!

[Thompson]

I will also add, that I do like the ribbing on these mags - as compared to the PMAG Gen 2's. These are a bit more raised compared to the PMAG Gen 2's, and as Eric said, provides a solid grip to the mag.

[UWone77]

[GOST]

Is that the new duty rifle?

[UWone77]

Is that the new duty rifle?

Yes, otherwise you'd never see me with a M&P15

[GOST]

You brand snob.

[WHSmithIV]

Yes, otherwise you'd never see me with a M&P15

you could just spray paint the mag well UWone - then nobody would know for sure

[mustangfreek]

Just put a sticker on it...it confused others before..lol..

[ETSGroup]

Elite Tactical Systems Group is please to announce that we have reached a settlement agreement with Magpul regarding the patent infringement suit. We have agreed to make a small change to the follower in our AR15 magazine and to pay royalties for mags sold between May and October of 2014.

We would like to give a little background explanation about our design and how the suit progressed. Among other things, Magpul's patent states that their mag design has a follower with a front and back leg, wherein the legs limit tilt if the follower within the housing. When we designed our mag and follower, we engineered all of our anti tilt functionality with just the front leg of our follower. Thus the back leg on our follower was simply there to act as a spring guide, nothing more. We thought that was not infringing on their patents. However, during the course of the suit we became aware of another patent in which Magpul claims only a follower with a front and back leg, no mention is made of those legs limiting tilt of the follower. Once we became aware of this claim and patent, we immediately agreed to remove the back leg from our follower. We knew this would have no impact on the overall anti tilt function of our follower and thus it would not affect the performance of our magazine. We started by manually removing all of the back legs from our existing inventory on 11-17-14. Every mag sold since that date has been of the new configuration without a back leg on the follower. In the following months, after some back and forth, we reached a settlement agreement with Magpul. That agreement was submitted to the court and signed by the judge on 2/19/2015.

We are excited to resolve this issue and move forward. We want to make it clear to everyone that we will continue to sell the most advanced and durable AR15 magazines on the market.

We also want to state that we absolutely did not copy Magpul's designs when we set out to create our magazine, as was evidenced by absolutely no affect on performance when we removed the back leg on our follower. We spent a year and a half designing, testing, tweaking, and perfecting our revolutionary mag to get it ready for market.

The following is a list of features that separates our magazine from a Pmag:
1. Material (obviously our translucent polymer is not even close to the material used in a Pmag, especially in impact resistance)
2. Our patent pending, completely integrated coupling system
3. Super easy disassembly
4. Our specially designed grip ribs on the housing of our mag
5. The grip rib on our floor plate that aids in extracting our mags from a pouch
6. Our RRS (Rapid Recognition System) colored follower and base insert pieces for fast easy recognition from any angle with our see through housing

We will continue to manufacture the best AR mags money can buy and we look forward to new and exciting products coming shortly.