Nick457
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Lookin for mags for my S&W 457, and they are getting hard to find! Promag has some at $34 each.
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Promag, any good?
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Arik
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Nope. Pretty much good as targets. At best they are a 50/50 if they work or not
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There has been much posted in the past about Promags. One forum member summed it all up best by stating that if you stomp them down real good they make reasonably good door stops.
I would not put them in any pistol, even for range use, as many cause jams, and what little is saved in their lower price is not worth the problems they cause. I would recommend sticking with S&W original equipment or other quality mags.
I would not put them in any pistol, even for range use, as many cause jams, and what little is saved in their lower price is not worth the problems they cause. I would recommend sticking with S&W original equipment or other quality mags.
Arik is being generous. Don't buy them if they offer YOU $34 to take them.
Friends don't let friends use Pro Mags.
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I've bought mags from Joes Pawn for at least 6 years and I can't remember a time when he didn't have 4516 mags
I'm not sure how familiar you are with the S&W 1-2-3rd Gens, but maybe we haven't stated what is obvious to us that may not be obvious to everyone...
The full size 4506 magazines will work 100% perfectly fine in your 457. They will of course not look correct and they will hang out the bottom of the pistol, they would be a poor idea as the magazine in the pistol while it is carried, but they would be perfectly fine as backup magazines carried on the opposite side, and they would work wonderfully as range and practice magazines.
The 4506 magazine are absolutely plentiful and take very little effort to find.
As to the subject Pro-Mag...
Well, there are very few magazine makers in man's history on Earth that have as well established a reputation for pure dreck. Pro-Mag is the industry leader as perhaps humankind's WORST magazine maker. If the challenge were given "take one chance and find me the crappiest newly manufactured magazine in one single try", you'd be foolish to shop a brand other than Pro-Mag.
The full size 4506 magazines will work 100% perfectly fine in your 457. They will of course not look correct and they will hang out the bottom of the pistol, they would be a poor idea as the magazine in the pistol while it is carried, but they would be perfectly fine as backup magazines carried on the opposite side, and they would work wonderfully as range and practice magazines.
The 4506 magazine are absolutely plentiful and take very little effort to find.
As to the subject Pro-Mag...
Well, there are very few magazine makers in man's history on Earth that have as well established a reputation for pure dreck. Pro-Mag is the industry leader as perhaps humankind's WORST magazine maker. If the challenge were given "take one chance and find me the crappiest newly manufactured magazine in one single try", you'd be foolish to shop a brand other than Pro-Mag.
Well Said Sevens
Sevens,
You explained the subject of Promags better and more articulately than I have ever heard it said before, well done! I especially liked the descriptive noun "dreck", have not heard that used since I left Brooklyn many years ago.
Sevens,
You explained the subject of Promags better and more articulately than I have ever heard it said before, well done! I especially liked the descriptive noun "dreck", have not heard that used since I left Brooklyn many years ago.
scoobysnacker
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The ONLY time Pro-mags should be considered an option, is when there are absolutely no other choices available. Example: Hi-cap Makarovs. I bought one of these pistols for $199, with one (Promag) mag, which is surprisingly functional. It took me a couple of months of deep Google (and Bing) searches to find a pair of reasonably priced pro-mags; got them from a guy mentioned on a FAL forum. He charged the standard MSRP, I think $17 apiece.
Every vendor was sold out, and the auction sites were asking $50+ for promags, and $100 for factory.
The one that came with it has been 100%, the 2 newer ones seem sticky. I will make them work for range usage.
On another note, I've seen a prominent poster here say that the promags for the 39 series seem to work fine. I got one to supplement my factory mag for my 39-2, and it does work. I've since traded for a pair of 3906 mags that are a little long, but function good.
Every vendor was sold out, and the auction sites were asking $50+ for promags, and $100 for factory.
The one that came with it has been 100%, the 2 newer ones seem sticky. I will make them work for range usage.
On another note, I've seen a prominent poster here say that the promags for the 39 series seem to work fine. I got one to supplement my factory mag for my 39-2, and it does work. I've since traded for a pair of 3906 mags that are a little long, but function good.
scoobysnacker...I too have a 39-2 and was bitten by the Promag bug after I obtained the gun. Got it for less than $20 on ebay with free shipping. I was hesitant at first to buy it but curiosity won out. Read many a post telling me to "stay away". I think I had one hiccup at first use. But it's been fine ever since. With so many negative reviews on other guns/models, I don't see how the company stays in business. It must be us 39-2 owners keeping them afloat!
During the AWB, I bought a Sig 229 that came with only a 10 rd magazine. At that time factory 13 rounders were selling for close to $100. I read on the Sig forum that if you bought ProMags and replaced the spring and follower, they would work. I invested $10 in a magazine and a bit more for a spring and a follower and it worked. I bought more ProMags and found the only thing that really needed replacing was the springs. I have put many thousands of rounds through that Sig and those magazines with no problems at all. I even shot close to 3K rounds at a 3 day class with no failures of any kind. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I can't complain about my ProMags,
Who manufactured the springs and followers you put in the ProMags? How much were they?
Arik
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The ONLY Pro Mags I have ever used or owned came with the 39-2 I bought from Cabelas several years ago....believe it or not they actually ran without issue.
Seems like the single stack mags from them actually worked.
Just MY experience.....
Randy
PS. I am NOT endorsing them by any stretch of the imagination!
Seems like the single stack mags from them actually worked.
Just MY experience.....
Randy
PS. I am NOT endorsing them by any stretch of the imagination!
I was able to get the followers from Sig and the springs were Wolf. I soon learned that the springs were all that I needed.
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