Bought 2 Promag magazines

[Okie21]

Been a few months and I haven't had any more failures since that first time using them. I do get a "gritty" feeling as I load them and the spring compresses. I took them apart and didn't find anything wrong inside.
And even though I wasn't too impressed with them, I ended up buying 2 Promag 17 round magazines for a surplus Beretta 92s that I recently bought. Magazines are hard to find because the mag release is on the heel of the grip. I found 2 at my LGS/indoor range, so I grabbed them. Those work fine.

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[Beauetienne]

I have several 32 round promags. Maybe 3-500 rounds through each and zero issues. Not sure about the 17 rounders . But I love the 32 rounders. Gotta love mag compatibility, here's a 32 rounders in my 9c

I just received a 32 count for a Beretta. Good to hear something positive. Will know soon.

 

[Saudade]

Been a few months and I haven't had any more failures since that first time using them. I do get a "gritty" feeling as I load them and the spring compresses. I took them apart and didn't find anything wrong inside.
And even though I wasn't too impressed with them, I ended up buying 2 Promag 17 round magazines for a surplus Beretta 92s that I recently bought. Magazines are hard to find because the mag release is on the heel of the grip. I found 2 at my LGS/indoor range, so I grabbed them. Those work fine.

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OEM Beretta mags have the notch for the heel release.

 

[Saudade]

I had a few for my FS M&P 9 and my Mini 14. Had "fail to feeds" on them. Some of the Mini 14's would not even fit in the mag well. A couple others would fit but not lock. Had to file the tab down to fit. Granted, they were half the price of Ruger mags but took too much work to fit them and they were still unreliable.

If yours work, Carry on!!

 

[Okie21]

At the range today, one of my M&P Promag magazines failed. I had a FTF, dropped the magazine and saw the remaining rounds loosely bouncing around inside the magazine. As I carefully removed them, I could see the mag follower was stuck. I grabbed that mag and my other M&P Promag magazine, walked over to the trash can and dropped them in.

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[00 buck]

PRO MAGS. Suck......the end

 

[hoc9sw]

When GM was closing up, and stuff was heavily marked down, every mag off the rack was gone EXCEPT the ProMags. Story I heard later was that they finally sold them as a batch to a gunshow booth guy for $5 each.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

Pro-Mag has a crappy reputation, but they do sometimes make mags that are OK.

Years back, when there was a limit on mag capacities, I got my first 9mm compact CZ, and you couldn't get hi-caps for them. Pro-Mag made a bunch of mags for the CZ-75 Compact in .40, a gun that CZ designed but never imported to the U.S. (or anywhere else, except maybe in very small quantities.) I bought several and had great success, as did many members of the CZ Forum. They held 13 rounds and ran fine. The mags for the full-size CZs were more trouble than they were worth, but not the "compact" mags.

I also had some good success with some CZ-75B full-size factory 10-round mags from CDNN (which I used in IDPA.) When I opened the package, I found (on the rear of the label card inside the package), that they were made by Pro-Mag. The front side of that label card looked exactly like other CZ factory mags. As best I could tell, and over the years, those mags were identical in every respects to the factory 10-round mags, and probably were "factory" mags, even though they were made by Pro-Mag. (I think CZ had mags made by several different firms back then; Mec-Gar didn't start making them until several years later.) These Pro-Mags never failed and I may still have one or two of them.

If the S&W mags mentioned in the original post were packaged as S&W factory mags, it may be that they were also made to S&W specs rather than the less stringent Pro-Mag standards for some mags that wear their own brand.