Just rebuilt some bad magazines

for my Franken-15.  I picked up 4, 20 round metal mags from CDNN, i don't remember the actual manufacturer, it might have been ProMag, it might have been someone else.  I don't think it was ProMag though, otherwise I'd KNOW if these were their magazines.  Anyway, from the time I got the mags until I got fed up with them and threw them in the junk box, I'd have nothing but jams, FTF's, double feeds, you name it, these mags did it.  CDNN gave me credit on three 20 round polymer ProMags but I had to pay the difference plus shipping.  No biggie.  However I REALLY wanted the metal 20 round magazines like I had when I first joined the Army.  Yes it was 1985 and the 30 round mags were standard.  UNLESS you were a Medical Specialist.  Like I was.  We got 4, 20 round magazines and one 180 round bandolier as part of our load out.  That was IT, unless we were issued a sidearm.  In which case, my Reserve Unit STILL issued the M1911A1 and you were issued 5, 7 round magazines and a box of 50 rounds.  You could have one or the other, but not both.  In my unit you had to be a Spec-4 or higher to get a sidearm unless you were specifically tagged to be a driver.  If you were a driver, weeeeeellllllll, you had some interesting choices available to you.  One of our drivers was issued a M1 Carbine another was issued an M3A1 Greasegun, yet another had a Mossberg 500A1.  Most of the other drivers just carried a 1911, except for the Colonel's driver who had an honest to God, Thompson M1 SMG, in addition to his 1911A1.  Remember I was a Medical Specialist and my unit was a HOSPITAL Unit.  A 300 bed hospital unit with most of our gear and equipment already PrePo'd in Germany in Connex containers.  Most people wouldn't think that a hospital unit would be issued weapons.  However we were an Army, Hospital Unit, and everyone from the lowliest supply duster up to the C.O. had at LEAST, ONE weapon that would be assigned to them in our Arms Room/Vault.  We had 6, M-60's and TWO count 'em TWO M2 .50 cal's in the Armory.  Me?  I had an old Cadillac Gage M-16A1 with the triangular handguards, that the front sling swivel was bent, issued to me.  My Platoon Sergeant had an Underwood Typewriter marked 1911A1 as his sidearm and my Platoon Leader's 1911 had Remington on the slide.

But back to those 4, 20 round mags I had bought.  These have given me nothing but trouble since the day I bought them, so I was browsing Brownell's and I found the old style rebuild kit with the original type followers.  Meh, for 13.00 bucks, what could it hurt.

I just got them in this evening and I've already rebuilt my 4 magazines, and I can tell you that so far, I haven't had any problems with them AT ALL.  All 4 mags now feed properly, and if it doesn't rain this weekend, I see how they stand up with some live fire.

I can tell you right now though, the followers that these magazines came with are supposed to be the anti-tip, but the friction of them on the insides of the magazines have cause me nothing but problems.

These mags won't be for any serious use.  After testing them for function, they will probably never get loaded with more than 5 rounds of ammo ever again, as I'll use them specifically for ammo and accuracy testing.

But I should now have 4, functioning 20 round magazines.