Followers on some aeg midcap magazines.

[emilianoksa]

I'm thinking of those small bullet shaped pieces of plastic that stick out when the mag is empty.

Is there a danger of them breaking off:

When you put an empty mag into the mag well?

When you drop them in a dump pouch, or replace them in a mag pouch?

I have three G&G mags which have these things and they look to be be rather fragile.

 

[Lozart]

They'll be fine.

Also - why would you be putting an empty mag in the rifle?

 

[Ongemakje]

They are sturdy, they wont break easily, i took them out of mine however, it made feeding a living hell. (for some reason)

but yeah. push the pin back in before you put an empty mag in the rifle for for show.

 

[emilianoksa]

When I watch youtube videos people do it repeatedly.

Especially with pistols.

People like to play with their guns.

I don't do it myself but lots of owners keep dry firing their guns, attaching and removing their mags, racking

 the slides and hitting the slide release levers apparently because they like the sound.?

 

[BibbsOnTour]

One of these things in one of my midcaps for my avalon just disappeared one day... Literally only after having it for a week or so.

Didn't see it fall our or anything and the mag still feeds ok so no idea what happened to it.

 

[Lozart]

When I watch youtube videos people do it repeatedly.

Especially with pistols.

People like to play with their guns.

I don't do it myself but lots of owners keep dry firing their guns, attaching and removing their mags, racking

 the slides and hitting the slide release levers apparently because they like the sound.?

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Not a problem then, is it?

 

[emilianoksa]

It could be.

How many of them wear their guns out early by constantly racking and firing them to no purpose? We don't know.

Not necessarily a good idea with pot metal parts.

That's why I would be a bit wary of buying second hand pistols.

 

[Lozart]

It could be.

How many of them wear their guns out early by constantly racking and firing them to no purpose? We don't know.

Not necessarily a good idea with pot metal parts.

That's why I would be a bit wary of buying second hand pistols.

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I actually meant that as YOU don't do it, it's not a problem for you, but you raise a valid point.

Racking the slide a few times compared to the hammering it gets in use is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things but general poor maintenance is an issue on second hand sales.

 

[Druid799]

Racking the slide a few times compared to the hammering it gets in use is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things but general poor maintenance is an issue on second hand sales.

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Totally agree, I’d think you’d need to do a serious amount of racking and dry firing to have a failure due to wear and tear ? 

BUT due to poor quality materials ? Yea I could see that happening .