Mag Couplers?

[Singer B]

Bandoliers and other makeshift means of having and/or carrying additional ammo- for any weapon look great but perform poorly over time in my opinion. Protect your ammo (and the mags it's loaded into) and your weapon - carbine or whatever, will perform the way it's supposed to...

The first day of SWAT school started with everyone showing up at the training field in full uniform with all equipment. Each person then had to run a 100 yard course where instructors shouted commands to stop, roll over, do 5 burpees, run, stop, do 6 jumping jack's, etc. When you reached the end, they had you look back and see where all of your gear was laying on the course. It was a great lesson in the need to secure your gear properly.

[USGI]

If the carbine has a serious flaw, it has to be the magazines. Two tiny nubs are all that is holding the thing in the weapon. They are a wear item as the nubs eventually start to wipe off.

Here's pics of mags with worn nubs (nibs) - when they start measuring very much shorter than 1.5" from the top of the mag, you can start getting failures to feed. The mag shown in pictures #2 & #3 is about .035" short of that. I've got another "shooter" mag that measures about .020" short and it still functions OK. - Bob

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