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Oh dear.
So I was about to buy the Novritsch mag pouches that would sort me out for my STANAG and AUG mags, thinking they'd also service the M14 I just paid for.
It turns out I was wrong, Novritsch sell separate DMR pouches to cater for the M14.
Now the problem isn't so much the expense of buying 2 sets of 4 pouches of each denomination (though that would run to 120 Euros, ouch), but that I either need duplicate battle belts for when I change guns, or I need to swap them over (and messing with MOLLE can be a bit of a pain in the fingers as we know, and would eat up a lot of lunch time!)
The thing is I currently prefer to push my mags back into the pouches when they're empty so I can keep track of them, and that means soft-sided pouches get ruled out... trying to stuff mags into the likes of an Osprey SA80 pouch is not easy when wearing goggles and trying to look down the side of my (chunky) body. I currently use cheap, but effective, AliExpress polymer pouches.
So are there any mag pouches that will hold *anything*, that are fairly stiff with good retention, still allow fast reloads and that aren't super-expensive bits of Gucci kit that would empty my bank account?
If I'm looking for an impossibility with a stiff-sided pouch that'll hold M14 + M16 + AUG mags, then I suppose I could try a dump pouch setup - what are the downsides to those, apart from the possibility of a bunch of mags clattering each other? Do people ever lose mags out of them?
So I was about to buy the Novritsch mag pouches that would sort me out for my STANAG and AUG mags, thinking they'd also service the M14 I just paid for.
It turns out I was wrong, Novritsch sell separate DMR pouches to cater for the M14.
Now the problem isn't so much the expense of buying 2 sets of 4 pouches of each denomination (though that would run to 120 Euros, ouch), but that I either need duplicate battle belts for when I change guns, or I need to swap them over (and messing with MOLLE can be a bit of a pain in the fingers as we know, and would eat up a lot of lunch time!)
The thing is I currently prefer to push my mags back into the pouches when they're empty so I can keep track of them, and that means soft-sided pouches get ruled out... trying to stuff mags into the likes of an Osprey SA80 pouch is not easy when wearing goggles and trying to look down the side of my (chunky) body. I currently use cheap, but effective, AliExpress polymer pouches.
So are there any mag pouches that will hold *anything*, that are fairly stiff with good retention, still allow fast reloads and that aren't super-expensive bits of Gucci kit that would empty my bank account?
If I'm looking for an impossibility with a stiff-sided pouch that'll hold M14 + M16 + AUG mags, then I suppose I could try a dump pouch setup - what are the downsides to those, apart from the possibility of a bunch of mags clattering each other? Do people ever lose mags out of them?
