alpha type2 mags, how are the quality?

[6brshooter]

Got a tikka sporter260 in a xlr chassis. I was using la mags in the original laminate stock and worked great. My current load is 142 smk, lapua brass and 44.1 gr h4350@ 2.330 oal from ogive. That length isn't close to fitting in an aics mag. I would need to seat bullets to 2.295" to fit and feed without tips dragging. That would be a .055" jump, hate to jack with the load much as it gets me 2850mv, 7.xx sd, and shoots in the .3-.4" ave and put 5 rds into snuff can size groups at 800. I have saw good and bad reviews of the type 2 mags, just seems like the bad reviews are more current. All different sources on the net, what's the folks at the hide say?

 

[Killswitch Engage]

my experience with them is they feed and function ok but cannot take more then 7 rds in them before the sides puff out enough to make them terribly hard to get in and out of the magwell and or strip a round from. unless they have changed the metal or design? i went back to aics mags.

 

[6brshooter]

That was one complaint i read about, thanks for your input killswitch. About how old are ur mags? A yr old, 2,3; i guess if they haven't changed anything it wouldn't matter what vintage they are.

 

[Killswitch Engage]

They were a couple years old at least

 

[mkollman74]

my experience with them is they feed and function ok but cannot take more then 7 rds in them before the sides puff out enough to make them terribly hard to get in and out of the magwell and or strip a round from. unless they have changed the metal or design? i went back to aics mags.

Ditto for my experience with them. They may be better now, but I would need a very good reason to move away from AI mags. I have also used JP mags which were bombproof as well.

 

[Red_SC]

Have a smith drill out the spot welds that hold the steel shim in the front of the AICS mags and weld the holes back closed.

 

[6brshooter]

I got a bunch of AICS mag, my reason for a change is oal constraints. Thank u both for ur experiences