The mag is hollow and serves as a shell catcher. I think it would fill quickly and can cause a malfunction.If it loads from the top, why does the third pic have a tan pmag in the magwell? Just to keep the right "look?".
The mag is hollow and serves as a shell catcher. I think it would fill quickly and can cause a malfunction.
The mag is hollow and serves as a shell catcher. I think it would fill quickly and can cause a malfunction.
These have been around for three or four years, cost has really come down much on them even tho places like cheaper than dirt and sportsman's guide have had them. I just don't see the advantage of the smaller round in a full size action.
Elmores in Greenwood usually has a couple on hand if anyone wants to fondle one. 5.7 ammo is just too spendy for me to justify it.
Joe
you mean you can't spring for $25 / magazine?
I'm assuming you are being facetious? I sure hope so...
As previously pointed out in EVERY thread on EVERY forum that has ever mentioned the 5.7x28 cartridge:
* The 5.7 ammunition is no more expensive than any common pistol cartridge. 50 rounds of 5.7 ammunition can currently be had for as little as $18 online, and $21 in brick and mortar stores, with $23 being the more common real world price. These top shelf cartridges are NO MORE EXPENSIVE than bargain bin practice 40 and 45 ammunition.
* Despite the ammo craze, FN kept the flow of 5.7 ammunition constant and, more importantly, NEVER inflated the price. This is despite the fact that FN has established a sizable captive consumer base.
I don't even own a 5.7 caliber weapon, but it really GETS MY GOAT to hear people who shoot 40, 45, 357, ect. complain about how they will never buy a 5.7 due to ammo COST.
Your not paying $25 for an 8 round, 1911 magazine here. Your paying $23 for a 50 round magazine that holds an entire stinking box of bullets.
i was being facetious. but unless you're buying bulk online, the best you can hope for, like you said, is about $23/50. you can get .40 at walmart for $16/50. it's more than a modest difference, but for some people it's enough, especially when you start talking 50rd mags. so while it's not prohibitively expensive, the cost was enough to prompt me to make a bulk order of 5.7mm online so that i could reload for cheaper as i burnt through the factory ammo.
that being said, i shoot/reload both .40 and 5.7mm and based on the amount of time it takes to size and trim all of those tiny shells, i'm still up in the air as to whether or not it's worth saved.
That's technically true - but Walmart is one of the FEW retails that hasn't jacked their prices through the roof. Most retailers have 40 and 45 priced at $23/$25 for Blazer, WWB, and PMC.