Magazines - should I buy Hi, Mid or Low cap?

[White_Wolf]

Hi everyone.

 

We are just starting in airsoft after years of playing paintball...yes it was time to get real  

 

Having bought our assault rifles we really want to add some further magazines but the advice we are getting from the shop is pretty useless, they just want to sell the most expensive we think.

 

So what would you buy?  Hi cap, Mid cap or Low cap.

 

I would say our playing style is likely to be more along the lines of not shooting at thin air...well not too much anyway...we hope.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.  

 

Thanks in advance.

[DerDer]

Usually bring about half a dozen mid caps and a hi cap per aeg to a site. The hi cap can be useful as a backup or for longer games.

If say one of your friends' guns goes down it's a lot easier to loan them an Aeg with a hi cap. Particularly if you are using snowflake magazine guns rather than something Stanag/M4 magazine based. 

 

Also depends on the brand, certain models of LCT have proprietary magazines and their midcaps are absolute dreck.

 

So to answer your question a mix of Hi-caps and Mid caps.

[Mik3F]

Do you want to be winding a magazine to keep shooting?

 

If not then Mid Caps

 

I carry 4 mid caps and 1 high cap as a backup

 

You can get Mid Cap mags that hold over 200 rounds now as standard

[ButcherBill]

You might wind hicap mags but TBH 1 Highcap wound properly just once will allow hundreds of shots before you have to wind again, With low caps (for the realism) you'll need to reload about 5-6 mags for the same capacity.

I use both & prefer using hicaps in my AEG's, GBBR you're limited to around 30 shots in each mag.

 

[DanBow]

I prefer mid caps as I hate the rattle of high caps. I'm not stealthy or anything,  it just annoys me. Oh, and I kept forgetting to wind up high caps and wondered why it wasn't shooting anything! Lol I carry 6 mid caps but rarely use more than 3 or 4 per game.

[Rogerborg]

Ahoy, and welcome. 

 

What they all said: by default, mid caps, with a backup hi-cap (which you probably got with the gun) is generally a good shout for most AEGs.  It does depends on the gun, and play style / site though.  Are you running anything peculiar?

 

Low caps are pretty much pointless, because you can just partially load a mid-cap if you want to run real capacity for a milsim or to play in hard mode.

[Atlas_45]

The usual games I participate in last around 30mins to 1hour and I find that my usual loadout of having 5 mid-cap mags, including the one in the gun, with a loaded speedloader will suffice when shooting conservatively. Now I've been pushing my AK into a suppressive fire role and I would switch to having 4 mid-caps on myself and either a hi-cap or a drum mag on the gun. The hi-cap I'm using is a 6L31 quadstack AK mag with around 1000rnds and as for the drum mag is an electric winding RPK-16 with 2000rnd. With me having to push the AK into the suppressive role, I find that I don't even have to sometimes reload the hi-cap/drum mag at all. And when I do, I just dump the hi-cap/drum mag into my backpack and revert to only shooting at what I can see.

[White_Wolf]

12 minutes ago, Rogerborg said:

Ahoy, and welcome. 

 

What they all said: by default, mid caps, with a backup hi-cap (which you probably got with the gun) is generally a good shout for most AEGs.  It does depends on the gun, and play style / site though.  Are you running anything peculiar?

 

Low caps are pretty much pointless, because you can just partially load a mid-cap if you want to run real capacity for a milsim or to play in hard mode.

Hi Roger

 

I'm running the Specna Arms Core 17 with HAL ETU. Everything standard. Wife is running Specna Arms Core 12 with HAL ETU. Again everything standard.  Just know we don't want to be running around with a bag of bbs 😊

 

As for playing style...I won't be the fastest on the field by a long way. My thoughts...let the young ones run and I'll be in the action when I get there.

 

[Galvatron]

It's already been said by many but in the context of the AR-15 platform, mid-cap mags are my favourite personally. Like Dan Bow, the rattle of high caps annoys me much more than wanting to be stealthy. These days, I pretty much reserve my high-caps (for AR-15) to my loaners for my friends from outside airsoft who came along.

 

I have a variety of 140-250 round mid-caps with my AR-15 AEGs, the latter is the PTS EPM1 mags.

 

 

 

[EDcase]

I would suggest to start with Hi-caps and then go to mid caps once you've played few games and need more magazine interaction.

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

1 hour ago, EDcase said:

I would suggest to start with Hi-caps and then go to mid caps once you've played few games and need more magazine interaction.

 

Good advice here^^^
 

I started off with hi-cap mags, but the Tactical Maracas sound drove me mental

I soon moved to mid caps for my aeg’s 

Theres nothing more satisfying than a tactical reload in the middle of a firefight!

[Cannonfodder]

As others have posted a few mid caps and a spare high cap is a good choice unless you're the trigger happy type and often put down alot of suppressing fire then stick with hi caps. Also with mid caps you've got the option of trying film or milsim games where there's ammo limits etc

[Angelvill3]

Low offer the most realism 20 - 40 bbs per mag. Best suited to milsim. You'll be heavily out gunned in skirmishes

 

Mid caps offer the best middle ground with realism but enough rounds to stay in a fight. 80 - 200 bbs per mag (dependson brand). Can be used in both local skirmish and milsims.

 

High cap have the most bbs per mag 400-650 bbs. Can't use at milsims good for players who constantly pound the trigger or saves on money as you need less to play. You'll also have to wind a wheel constantly to get through the mag i.e every 75-120 rounds

 

I personally only buy mid caps as I hate the rattle and having to wind when running or shooting with high caps

Edited February 13 by Angelvill3

[Rogerborg]

5 hours ago, White_Wolf said:

I'm running the Specna Arms Core 17 with HAL ETU. Everything standard. Wife is running Specna Arms Core 12 with HAL ETU

 

Solid choices.  It's really up to how much you want to spend.  5x Specna brand mags will set you back £36 in either mid-cap or high cap.  If you're out together, you might find that 5x mids + the 2 highs that came with the guns are all that you'll need for typical games, as you can share if one of you goes ham. You might need some extras, or to bring a speedloader out with you.

 

On that, if you do go with mid-caps, an Odin crank speedloader clone like this (not a recommendation, just an example) makes loading them a lot quicker and more pleasant.