Posted on 04/17/2015 3:38:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
At the top of this year Magpul announced yet another ground-breaking product, the PMAG 17. An inexpensive polymer 17-round Magpul magazine for Glock 17s, the PMAG 17 was guaranteed to succeed even before it hit the market. About the only thing that could go wrong was if some small, but critical step or test was overlooked.
A small but critical mistake was made. Just a few days after the public release of the PMAG 17 Magpul has confirmed that some magazines are not feeding correctly when paired with other 9mm Glock pistols, specifically the Glock 19 and Glock 26.
“Of all the challenges of building a Glock magazine with single new composite, issues like [will they] drop free, impact strength and feed lip retention were foremost on our mind,” said Magpul’s chief executive officer, Richard Fitzpatrick, in a Facebook announcement. “The failure to feed came as a bit of a surprise to us and we immediately headed out to the range to investigate.”
“We found the problem. Without getting into technical details, some small, but critical geometry changes did not make it into the initial production molds. We should have caught this but no failures showed up on our factory guns during live fire testing and flaws in our internal processes of checks/balances did not flag the oversight as it should,” he said.
Magpul is being extremely up-front about plans to address the problem and has published a schedule with how it will be proceeding.
“Molds are being updated with the correct geometry as we speak and a replacement magazine body with the correct geometry should be available by May 4, 2015,” Fitzpatrick said. “These will be date coded 5/15 and later and will replace any magazine bodies in service of earlier manufacture. Just use your existing spring, follower and floor plate with the new body.”
Customers who ordered magazines from Magpul, Brownells and Midway will be shipped replacement magazine bodies automatically. If you bought from those companies you’re in the clear, all you have to do is wait. People who purchased their magazines locally will be able to pick up free replacement parts from the stores they bought from and of course, Magpul customer service will tackle this on a case-by-case basis if need be.
No company is above mistakes, but as an industry leader, Magpul is taking the initiative to show the world how companies can fix things when the inevitable happens. “In short, we are updating all of the affected magazines released as quick as we possibly can,” Fitzpatrick said.
Agreed. Generally.
Have both. Long time 45 fan, but think I actually like the 40 better.
I’ve started making 30 and 42 round bench loaders for Pmags in .223, and they are selling well. Next up is .300 blackout, and 7.62x39 (I have the mechanics on that one worked out, just pondering the production right now). Somebody today challenged me to make a 100 round loader for drum mags, so I’m going to mess around with that, too :).
“I carry a 9mm daily and have never felt under-gunned...”
Not to be too picky, but any handgun you can carry concealed is under-gunned.
I have two Magpul mags for my .45 that never cycled properly. Magpul wouldn’t make it right. Screw Magpul.
I don’t doubt you but still are you certain they were Magpul brand? I really don’t know for sure but don’t think I have ever seen Magpul mags for the 1911.
I have been wrong before tho.
I don’t doubt you but still are you certain they were Magpul brand? I really don’t know for sure but don’t think I have ever seen Magpul mags for the 1911.
I have been wrong before tho.
I stand corrected. It was for my 9mm, not my .45 which was another company. But still Magpul didn’t do me right.
Your point is well taken...
These days, I’d prefer to carry an MP5, SBR or even my M1A around many places I have to go...
But the local gendarmes look askance at us peons sporting that much hardware...
So I tend to carry concealed...
“Under-gunned” is always a relative term...Like I said, to each his own...I’ll never tell you your choice is wrong; that’s for you to find out...Same with me...
Shot placement is all that matters.
I have never seen anyone volunteer to stand in front of .22LR.
LOL to your last post.
My personal carry preference would be a Remington 870 with a ten round tube, side saddle, a belt full of buckshot and a few rifled slugs, just in case. But that would be a carry piece in one of those imaginary worlds liberals inhabit where there are no tradeoffs and unicorns handle the farts.
For concealment in the real world I carry a baby Glock in .40 caliber. Not sure I’ll ever change. My baby and me have a long and mutually beneficial friendship.
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