Last week I published an article with lots of great info on Magpul’s upcoming M3 PMAG. Originally, Magpul had planned on offering a standard baseplate (or floorplate) as well as an accessory ‘slimline’ baseplate. However, they’ve abandoned this approach and gone with an all new, single design.
Here you can see the original design.
And the new style. Notice the improved interface between baseplate and magazine body.
I’ve had a couple of offline discussions about the new baseplate design and I keep hearing people use the term “compromise” when they ask me about it. Well, I’m going to throw that word right out of the window because to me, “compromise” means they gave something up. From my perspective, that isn’t the case at all. Rather, they looked at both variants they had developed prior to SHOT Show and in testing over the past few months, developed a new baseplate for the magazine. For one thing, this baseplate slides on from the rear. It’s also a low profile design but you can still get a grip on it and the design offers a slight rand all around the base of the magazine but it’s not so pronounced that it causes issues with mag pouches.
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