Finding a good mag without wasting ammo
 

Ok so I have a few boxes of AR mags in my safe. I have found that brand spankin new mags are a little tight and don't like to feed the 300 whisper all that well.... Especially chambering the first round. I really don't want to burn up 300 rounds testing 30 or so mags to see which feed the best. Any one got any hints on picking a good mag... The older mags that have seen some use and are well broken in seem to work the best... How about Black or Green followers. The Black have a little more play in them and may better accomodate the chunkier round. Although with that extra play they may not feed very well... Any and all advice would be appreciated. Once I get about 10 mags identified as good 300 whisper mags... I'm gonna mark them and use them for nothing else.

I've been getting really cosistant feeding from OKay 30 round, black follower and found Isreali made Orlite's to be total POS for Whisper rounds but pretty functional for .223? DPMS 10 round did alright as long as your not feeding RN's.

I use Brownells 20 rounders and Radway Green 30 rounders-I always download a couple of rounds and never have any problems.
geichal

I'm using my old colt 20 rounders, reserving 30's for 223 so always know who's who at my house. The were well used and function fine.

Good Mags
 

The H&K mags I've tried didn't work well for the Whisper - they need a light file on the front edge to lower it slightly. The DPMS (Labelle) curved 20 round mags with magpul followers work well though.

Nick