PMAG fix!

[Red Dot]

OK, so I don't take credit for this fix but it worked AWESOME over the weekend at Ultimate Airsoft.

I have 7 PTS PMAG M mags (120 rounds). As expensive as they are I was experiencing a lot of binding inside the magazine, I could see BBs down in the magazine but they were stuck and had to be violently hit to pop out. It was happening to the tune of 1 in every 3 reloads so it affected my gameplay badly. My breaking point was when a magazine got completely jammed that I couldn't free it up with dropping it from a few feet off the ground.

Beautiful Google revealed that I am not the only one and I found a few videos talking about removing the BB follower as a fix. I basically followed this video:

Beta Project PMAG fix YouTube

Obvious difference is that I didn't drill the top of the mag because it's not like the Beta Project one. You remove the baseplate, unscrew the the inner magazine out from the outer shell and then I had to remove all the screws around the inner magazine to access the spring. It does appear to have a quick access area to remove the spring without unscrewing both halves but I snapped the plastic off one pretty good so I just went the extra step to access the spring.

After I removed the follower I reversed the steps above and man, flawlessly feeding magazines all day last weekend. When I was out I would pop out the magazine and notice 1-2 BBs sitting right at the top every time. I honestly went through around 10 magazine changes over the 5 hours at UA so I am pretty confident the issue is solved.

I hope this works for any of you that are having binding issues inside your PMAGs.

[BioRage]

Good to note, I picked up 5 of these last week.

I will see how the run on this Saturday, if they have binding issues will follow this thread.

[lurkingknight]

you scan also dremel the knob so it properly holds a double stack spacing... but you have to know the orientation in the ways the BBs stack vs the pivot in the hinge. The knob does get caught on the side of the bb tube when it jams into a double stack of BBs, happens in more mags than you think.