Hey all, just bought a p290rs, but have about a 2. Week wait till it gets added to my permit.

I was gunna order some mags and saw promag makes some cheap ones...

Anyone know if they work?


I know my 229 and 226 hated them so I sold em. But my 220 ran fine with them...

Sinice the 290 is single stack maybe they'll work?


Anyone try em yet? At $10 difference per mag it's tempting but not worth a jam in a carry gun if they are questionable reliability....


Thanks in advance!

Hey, I have no experience with the pro mags... That being said, promag may be who makes the mags for the P290

The general consensus is Promag = utter shit.

The rare exceptions were 220 and 225 mags if you swapped springs.

For 10 bucks difference on a gun that you won't have a ridiculous number of mags (probably) I think you be batshit crazy to buy promags. Respectfully.

Stay far away from Promag.....terrible stuff

Promag blows donkey dicks. Get real or get none.

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promag makes some cheap ones

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!

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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.

And we will need a range report. After you buy real magazines!

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.

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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.

Usually it's Mecgar making Sig mags. Not sure if they make the 290 mags but stick with Sig brand or Mecgar brand.

I haven't had good results with Pro-Mag.