Originally posted by captainbarred: Lol! Thanks fellas! Sometimes I wanna go cheap and need a kick in the ass to stay on the straight and narrow.
Sig brand it is!
Good choice. It amazes me how people are willing to spend several hundred dollars on a gun and then look for cheap mags to save a few bucks. I used to do it myself but now I spend the extra cash on the real thing.
I had one Pro-Mag. One was enough. It didn't work. This isn't to say you might not get a good one, but the odds are too low to suit me, let alone for actually carrying to defend myself. One aftermarket magazine brand I do trust is Mec-Gar, who actually make the OEM mags for a number of guns. (They do not make one for the P290.)
There is a school of thought that holds that aftermarket magazines, even if they cause stoppages, are OK for the range/practice while reducing wear and tear on the OEM magazines. I don't buy it. Every stoppage your gun has, regardless of cause, decreases your confidence in it.
Posts: 28951 | Location: Johnson City, TN | Registered: April 28, 2012
Originally posted by egregore: ......There is a school of thought that holds that aftermarket magazines, even if they cause stoppages, are OK for the range/practice while reducing wear and tear on the OEM magazines. I don't buy it. Every stoppage your gun has, regardless of cause, decreases your confidence in it.
Agree. In addition, the shooter is training himself to accept malfunctions in the pistol. "OK, it's just a bad magazine." A very bad practice in a defensive handgun. The malfunction could be caused by something other than the defective mag. But it gets attributed to the mag anyway.
In our SD courses we tell students to either junk or throw bad mags in the parts bin.
______________________ An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. --Nicholas Murray Butler
Posts: 4670 | Location: Pennsylvania | Registered: June 29, 2006
