I found a place online where someone is selling some of the OLD 20 round AR mags. Do they hold any collector value? If so do they have to be made by a specific company to have value?
I found a place online where someone is selling some of the OLD 20 round AR mags. Do they hold any collector value? If so do they have to be made by a specific company to have value?
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I don't know about collectability but I brought several home after my tour.
Nothing collectable about anything to do with an AR-15.
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image.jpgI would disagree to a certain extent. Original GI from the Viet Nam era is certainly collectible. The older guns "look right" with 20's, the gun is less bulky, easier to case, carry, get in and out of a blind with... If you are shooting in a CMP or NRA hi power match the 20 is much better for prone. For zeroing off of the bench it's kind of a "must have" unless you don't mind being up in the air.
I had a bag of them checked out for the third Mar Div intramurals for my dental team and in the interim they re-equipped with the 30's and would not take them back...
I like to carry a 20 with 5 rds in it for hunting. It slows down my shooting on running turkeys, weight is lighter, etc.!
Last edited by Griff Murphey; 06-30-2016 at 10:04.
There are variations which are difficult to find with both the 20 rd and 30 rd magazines
Photo shows pre 1964 "waffle magazines" in special pouch, these waffle magazines run from $200 to $300 eaP1010027_0023_023.jpg
Lets say collectability would be minimal except in really unusual cases. I personally like 20 round magazines on an AR, not as bulky, and fewer feed problems
Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur
Like collecting en bloc clips or carbine magazines, there will be someone interested in the variations.
When you bought your early AR-15 in '64, the magazines had a white dot sticker and had the small "CAL.223" on the floorplate
Cooper magazines had a lot of rejections and a cancelled contract - there are a lot of variations for the collector
early "sterile" AR-180/AR-15 30rd magazine from '69 made it to Viet Nam before the Colt 30 rdP1010018_0017.jpgP1010006_0006.jpgP1010031_0026_1.jpgP1010009_0004_004.jpg
What does sterile mean?
Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur
Can't be traced back to the United States. Used in clandestine operations.