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Anyone else use the Beta C Mag's? I'm contemplating purchasing, but the price of them seems 'SPENSIVE for genuine plastic! Are they reliable? Durable? For how many rounds?

I've never heard anything bad about reliability and functioning of them from a reliable source, only good things. If you have never held one in any calibre they make fully loaded, you cannot really grasp how heavy they are. That is not a bad thing, just a fact. If you think the price of them is high now, you should have priced them before the AWB ban sunset. People were paying well over 1 thousand a piece for them, makes the $250 give or take that a new one costs now seem pretty cheap.

We used to issue them for a specific use.

The ones that ran, ran well enough I guess, but about 40% of them would NOT run reliably in all of our rifles, so given the weight of load out, and the factor of losing say 50 rounds or so if the Mag got dropped in favor of a 30 round mag in a emergency reload, we ditched them. Still have them in the armory, covered in dust.

Cleaning and lubing the things is a PITA so it didn't bring a tear to my eyes, and they did stress the dickens out of the mag catches.

For a fun toy I love 'em!!!
Just hit the fun switch and melt the handguards off!!:D

Just my .02
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