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Probably a stupid question here but I am going to have faith in what my elementary school teachers used to always say "There are no stupid questions" Yesterday my father gave me a LAR Grizzly 15 M4 .223. It has a Magpul pmag 30 M3 mag in it and I am wanting to purchase additional mags. I understand that it going to be extremely difficult right now but my question is this: Will any 5.56 x 45mm mags work?

Buying Pmags is not difficult at all. you just have to be willing to pay what they are bringing right now.
and Yes any mag that will fit in an AR will work just fine

Brownells or USGI surplus have always done whatever we've needed over the years.

I've seen and used P mags. And just have never been able to bring myslef to change from whats worked over the yeras.

10 bucks or less for a brownells mag( prior to the shoooting of course) and in stock who needed more?

the mako group.com (one word) has all kinds of steel ar mags just bought 3 for 56 bucks a few minutes ago.631-880-3396 ext 304 or 306

Steel body mags are the only AR mags I've had issues with, and so common, for some reason, I just refues to buy steel body mags.

those aluminum mags are not too bad, US military issue. I have one of those and it works ok.

Most mag's work great depending on the type of spring and follower that they contain. Replacing these two items will make most bad mag's into good ones, regardless if they are made of metal or Plastic , unless the lips on the mag's seriously deformed .

Yep. My take on AR mags is this; P Mags are plastic (duh!), this means they won't bend. GI mags are aluminum, that means they won't crack. It's kinda like comparing aluminum arrows to carbon arrows, pick your poison. You have to provide reasonable care to either one of them.

I've seen a lot of abused Pmags in use by GI's. A LOT of these had feed lips that looked like they had spread a bit. With vigorous magazine changes, sometimes these mags would spit a round or two out of the magazine as it seated, of course, this will jam the gun up, especially if it is a slide lock reload. I think this happens to GI's 'cause they all LOVE to do full auto mag dumps, one after another, thereby rendering said Pmag thoroughly well done.

If you are gonna leave Pmags loaded, you probably are well advised to use that little cover that takes the tension off of the feed lips.

A GI mag that is within specs for OAL width etc (not all are, but that is a story within itself) has a magpull follower (I like the yellow ones) and a chrome silicon mag spring, is as good as it gets. Download 'em to 28rd so you can do a tac-reload more easily.

^^^ What he said.

Care for all equipment, and only load 28.