AR-10 Magazines. 10/20?

[pc_city]

DSG just got 20 Gen II 10 rounders. They won't last long.

http://dsgarms.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=852

Pennsylvania Defense Consultants has 3 unknown gen on their site.

https://ssl31.pair.com/padef/gobbels/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=38&products_id=321

[pc_city]

Would you be willing to sell some of those 11-rounders as parts-kits? With some mods to the bottom plate, I'm sure the problem could be solved.
Thanks - Corey

Corey is right. I high temp silver soldered a piece of 3/32X5/16 (McMaster 8895K363) steel about 1.50 in long to the floor plate and turned the 11 rounders into 10 rounders. If you try this make sure you bevel the leading and trailing edges of the shim or the mag spring will lock on the ends of the shim and prevent disassembly. It probably would be easier spot-welding the pieces together.

[REDHORSE]

Here is a pic of my most reliable, smoothest, and my favorite AR10 mag. It's a modified M14 mag that I bought at the Pomona show ages ago. It was modified by a gunsmith, whom I don't remember the name of now. Maybe someone will remember.

I had first seen this modified mag at the Inland Fish & Game range, from an AR10 shooter a few benches over. He let me shoot his tricked out AR10 and it put a fire underneath my feet to get me an AR10 & the custom mag.

I found and bought the mag before I could find an AR10 to buy. Luckily I found a dealer at the Pomona gun show selling the custom M14/AR10 mag and snatched it up for like ~$125-$165 (I forgot what I paid exactly, I was able to talk the price down).

I had a lot of M14 mags and had planned on modding the rest of my M14 mags like it eventually. I just wanted to see one up close, to see how the follower was done. Saving me $$ from having to buy more of Armalite's rebuild kits.

Plus SB23 was going into effect soon and AR10 mags were scarce at the time. Armalite was out of stock and back ordered most of the time.

• It has a couple parts machined: spring bushing and BHO plunger. A nail as a spring/plunger guide and a small spring.
• Mag body was machined for the AR10 mag catch, BHO plunger and still retained enough of the lug to work in an M1A.
• Follower has a couple holes drilled for the BHO plunger and spring guide.

It works great in my AR10. It has never jammed and activates the BHO every time. Only wish my Armalite mags (1st Gen) were as reliable.

[bonjing]

so probably a stupid question,but how do you know you are ordering genuine armalite mags versus some generic crappy promag or some missed advertised dpms mag?

[StoneTower]

so probably a stupid question,but how do you know you are ordering genuine armalite mags versus some generic crappy promag or some missed advertised dpms mag?

If you are talking ArmaLite AR10 mags, only ArmaLite makes mags that fit..there is no third parties making them.

Armalite used to convert M14 mags and there were some people doing a poor job a converting M14 mags and trying to sell them as ArmaLite converted mags but the generation I and gen. II are all Armalite. If it is not a M14 mag and it works in your AR10 then it is an ArmaLite mag.

[JPB]

I've gotten some "10 rounders" that held 11 also. Now I just order hi-cap parts kits and convert them myself. The trust just isn't there.

[tenpercentfirearms]

I just got off the phone with Armalite and they are going to fix the magazines they sent out by extended the follower and then they will be ten rounders again. I am sending my 40 back, they will fix them, and then send them back to me. I am impressed they did the right thing.