Feeding Frenzy...

[Talyn]

Charting the History of AR Magazines​

For more than half a century, some variation of the M16 has accompanied American military personnel on their missions around the globe. The original M16 was revolutionary in its use of polymer furniture, aluminum receivers and tiny but fast 5.56mm NATO cartridges. Military small arms haven’t been the same since.
If a gun’s ammunition feeding system is flawed, then the whole system fails.

Feeding Frenzy: Charting the History of AR Magazines

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[Belt Fed]

More like the evolution of magpul

 

[HayesGreener]

In Air Base Defense in Southeast Asia we were issued a basic load of 10-20 round magazines, which was 180 rounds, because they thought loading 18 instead of 20 was less.lokely to cause the magazine springs to fail. What I do know is most of us topped those magazines off when we got on post, and most of us had a BUNCH of spare loaded mags in our gear bags. I don't recall us having any problems with those magazines. I have been to multiple rifle courses over the years and have run old metal mags and new polymer mags and they all ran fine.