I have only tried the Accurate Mags in my 6mmCM, does anyone have input on another mag to try? Pros and cons?
AI style mags.
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We make 5, 10 and 12 round magazines for the 308-ish family of cartridges, with a few of our pro-staff shooters opting to use the 6mm Creedmoor 
If you have any questions, let me know.
If you have any questions, let me know.just used my first MDT mag yesterday, fantastic and ran flawless with my 6.5x47. 12rd mag buy with confidence.
Thank you! I was looking on the MDT web site today and I’m really leaning toward MDT.We make 5, 10 and 12 round magazines for the 308-ish family of cartridges, with a few of our pro-staff shooters opting to use the 6mm Creedmoor
I switched over to Pmags, they are the only pmags that I like. They run smoother then the AIs and cheaper too.
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I was using AI mags, always worked well. Have 1 Accurate mag with a plus 2 extension that works great. Just bought an MDT 12 rounder that I look forward to trying out. I've also ran the magpul polymer AICS style and as long as theres no pressure on the front of it it feeds well too
They are cheaper but can't honestly say they run smoother than the Pmags. At least not using them with a Defiance action with AICS AT stock.
If you're AICS or other metal mags are scratching brass they just need tuned up.
Just sayin!
My 10 round AI and MDT mags both run 6mm creedmoor well. If I had to pick one, I would run the AI because it can also handle my x47 just fine.
Your right, I could spend some time cleaning them up. Or I could leave them on the shelf where they have been since I got my Pmags lol
I also like the $37 price tag.
Love my MDT 12rd metal mags in my 6.5cmWe make 5, 10 and 12 round magazines for the 308-ish family of cartridges, with a few of our pro-staff shooters opting to use the 6mm Creedmoor
Mine had the plate but I drilled out the spot welds and removed them.
I’ll have to measure mine but it seemed mine was a bit roomier.
I can go to almost 2.95 in my ARC mags
LOL! I can't tell you how many times I've heard that at the range ("Fuck that, I'm not paying $80 for a magazine!").
Then at the match I often hear "WTF? My mag malfunctioned! I think (fill in the blank with an excuse)."
"What kind of mags you running?"
"PMags, why?"
"That's why you're having mag malfunctions" (as the RO shakes his head and writes "DNF" on the stage score).
I have never understood how someone can spend well over a $1000 (minimum) on a rifle, and bitch about an $80 mag that lasts forever.
Penny wise, and pound foolish.
Accurate mags without plate or ARC mags.
Mine feed 2.95 coal 260 loads.
Not sure where MDT sits.
You can remove plates, I’ve done it to accurate mags but I can’t cut on my AI mags and feel good about it.
I’ll save them for a possible stubby 6 build.
The one with the longest internal capacity!
I would opt for the MDT without binder plate.
Our magazines will allow for 2.960" without binder plate, but technically an AI AW magazine will run up to around 2.980" if your action allows it!
Ok..... I just checked, and my numbers were wrong. I’m showing an accurate mag at 2.955”-2.960”. The Pmag is the one I was thinking of when I said 2.890”.
So to be clear:
Accurate mag w/o binder plate ~ 2.960”
Pmag ~ 2.890”
So to be clear:
Accurate mag w/o binder plate ~ 2.960”
Pmag ~ 2.890”
The COAL capacity on the AW mags is crazy. I run 140 Bergers in my 6.5 CM .015" off the lands and still have a ton of room left in my AW mags.
Its a spacer that keeps your round back in the mag so that they dont catch under the feed ramp of your action. MDT has some good images.
Binder plate keeping the rounds back
Binder plate removed and now the round can catch under the action.
I thought the binder plate was also a reinforcement for the tack welds on the front of the mag(?). Essentially, it keeps the stress of a full mag (which wants to bulge the mag), distributed across the tack welded front.
Just going off memory here, so could be completely off base...
Just going off memory here, so could be completely off base...
Im sure there is some merit to that but in all the situations Ive seen the topic raised in its mainly for action and cartridge length compatibility.
If you want to run the rounds as long as possible you need that physical space available to you by deleting the binder plate. However if you do that then you need to make sure that they are able to rise up into your action by choosing an action with a mag well large enough to accommodate the length or to notch the action in order to make it so.
The original AI magazines built for the AI Chassis System (AICS) utilized a binder plate for two reasons (as far as I know); to give the weld a better adhesion during the manufacturing process (the name of the process escapes me now) and to strengthen the magazine. Whilst they could have tried to weld the seam without the binder plate, or possibly tried to spot weld it, the binder plate was added for ease of manufacture and the ammo of the time was M118 which would always be loaded well within the maximum OAL of the mag.
Now that we're loading longer and have sped up alternate manufacturing processes, there is no real need for the binder plate, except to keep with the legacy design, and to not hang up the tips of rounds on certain actions.
