Save Bad Magazines?

[Smoke]

I put this here because I'm not sure it really fits anywhere else.

What do you do with bad magazines?

I have a couple of ProMag Mini-14 magazines and one MagPul Glock 26 magazine that's prone to malfunctions.

I put an orange dot on both and put them in my range bag for malfunction drills.

I'm pretty sure ProMag wouldn't replace their magazine and I'm pretty sure Magpul would but it's not worth the hassle to me.

I posted this as a suggestion but I'm semi curious if anyone else does this.

 

[pawncop]

Even though magazines can be costly, I believe they are disposable. If it doesn't work trash it.

 

[DixieRanger]

Never heard of a Promag that worked. I'd trash it if didn't...

 

[toddimusnimski]

I do get a nice sense of satisfaction when I complain to a company about their product and they respond positively. A negative response just reinforces my feeling to not patronize them any longer.
Give them a call, you have nothing to lose but a few minutes of your time.
Todd

 

[Denverd0n]

Never thought about keeping a bad magazine for malfunction drills. I have always just thrown them away.

 

[Smoke]

Never thought about keeping a bad magazine for malfunction drills. I have always just thrown them away.

If I throw them away I've wasted the money I paid for them. At least this way I get some use out of them.

 

[Jimbo41]

I trash them other than 1911 magazines, those I save to trade in.

 

[paladin42]

Being mechanically minded, I closely examine malfunctioning magazines to see if I can determine the root cause. And then fix them if I can. It's sort of a hobby with me.

 

[s&wchad]

I mark bad mags and save them for parts. You never when you'll need a follower, spring or base plate.

On second thought, I'm probably not a good person to give advice. We can't get a car in the garage (or even a motorcycle) and our full sized basement is so packed with "stuff", I had to spend months organizing things last year so I could get through the isles.

 

[crows]

Depends on if I can determine the source of the "bad". If the body is dented, then possibly the floor plate and the follower can be saved for spare parts. Possibly even the spring. Sounds cheap? Sure, but I had a salvaged floor plate that worked great in a swap with a different brand gun to replace one of those long pinkie support floor plates. I didn't have to try and figure out which one might work and order the wrong one.

 

[Doug M.]

I took several classes with the late Pat Rogers. He firmly advocated that a magazine is a wear item and that the correct answer to one is hammer therapy then disposal in the trash. Period.

 

[Seaburry]

No! Once I am convinced it's bad I use a small section of rail track I use as an anvil and any available hammer to send it out of reach from temptation….

 

[sparkyvega]

Me too, and iffen I can't fix 'em, I might could use the parts.

Being mechanically minded, I closely examine malfunctioning magazines to see if I can determine the root cause. And then fix them if I can. It's sort of a hobby with me.

 

[Phenix]

If I throw them away I've wasted the money I paid for them. At least this way I get some use out of them.

The magazines in question might work just fine in another gun.

 

[375hh1973]

I hate clutter and broken stuff is clutter.

Trash it.

 

[Chuck24]

There's always that drawer in the kitchen that everybody has

 

[S-W4EVER]

Depends on if I can determine the source of the "bad"…

This is what I do. If the feed lips are damaged there's no fixing it, but if the spring has weakened Wolff sells replacement springs that are probably batter than what came in the mag originally.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I had some old GI M1911 magazines that wouldn't hold more than 5 rounds, they are dedicated to strictly target shooting. A bad magazine-in addition to malfunction drills, can be dedicated to dry fire.

 

[Buford57]

I will at least try a thorough cleaning and reassembly with a known good spring & follower before writing it off. I accept the spring as a "wear item", the follower maybe. Unless there is damage to the body I try to rehabilitate it. Then again I only buy OEM or MECGAR.

 

[Mister Coffee]

I only have one bad magazine. At my current skill level, I am not capable of figuring out what is wrong with it and then fixing it. So, I'm not doing anything with it at the moment. That said, I am more than willing to toss it in the trash. I know that a lot of "gun failures" are due to magazine failures.

I have a shooting buddy who bought a new Glock. He can't get it to run without failure. This surprised me since nobody buys a Glock except for the fact that they are reliable out of the box. It turns out he was using cheap aftermarket magazines and surplus Egyptian army ammo. My friend is "Cheap first, everything else second." Making a new Glock fail takes some effort, but he found a way.