panzermk2 wrote:
In correct. FNH has not changed how they make their mags recently and the steel is molded into the top lips of the magazine.
I stand...er sit corrected. I took a closer look, and there is indeed some sheet metal molded into the magazine near the lips. The reason I didn't notice the metal is that it is matte black. In the pictures posted at the top of this thread, it looks like bare, silvery sheet metal. I'll see if I can figure out how to post pics to this forum.
panzermk2 wrote:
New gun or crappy SS197 ammo.
It is indeed a brand new (not previously owned) gun. New factory SS197SR FN ammo, fresh out of the box. When you say "crappy SS197 ammo" do you mean that I may have gotten hold of a bad batch, or that SS197 ammo is all crap? (That would be bad news, as I just ordered 1K rounds of it...)
By the way, I picked up the notion that FN had eliminated the metal from the magazines from an old post of yours (which I perhaps misunderstood), dated Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:58 pm:
panzermk2 wrote:
I need to take a pick, but the recent batch of FN factory mags no longer have that small piece of metal in the mag body.
Here we go. Also the FN verbiage is no longer present. Also the number of small hole like indents have changed.
Thanks for your reply!