Today, Magpul announced the new Hunter X-22 chassis, a replacement stock for the Ruger 10/22 rifle. Made of reinforced polymer, the X-22 sports the following features:
– Ergonomic grip
– Adjustable length of pull
– Adjustable comb height
– Multiple sling mounting options
– Non-slip rubber butt pad
– M-LOK accessory slots
Colors: Black, FDE, Grey, and Olive Drab.
Will be available starting Summer 2015.
www.magpul.com/products/hunter-x-22-stock-%E2%80%93-ruger%C2%AE-10-22
Today, Magpul has launched the new Sand PMAG M3 magazines. Featuring the standard 30-round capacity, the new M3 magazines also incorporate a new material technology and manufacturing process which improves the strength, durability, and reliability of the magazines. Additionally, these new mags are more receptive to water-based dye processes, so they more easily be altered to any number of colors. Available with and without window.
www.magpul.com/products/pmag-magazines
M-LOK Hand Stop Kit
The M-LOK Hand Stop Kit is a lightweight, low-profile index point for improved weapon control, or as a forward stop to prevent the shooter from touching the hot front sight assembly or muzzle. Included with the kit is the Hand Stop, an M-LOK index panel, an M-LOK Rail Cover Type 2, as well as an M-LOK Hand Stop MOE adapter.
Available in Black, Flat Dark Earth, Olive Drab, and Stealth Gray. Made in U.S.A.
www.magpul.com/products/m-lok%E2%84%A2-hand-stop-kit
M-LOK Tape Switch Mounting Plate
The M-LOK Tape Switch Mounting Plate is designed to attach SureFire ST pressure pads on M-LOK compatible forends. Made from polymer, the Mounting Plate is lightweight and rugged. The plate’s low-profile design allows users more mounting options without interfering with other equipment, and it features rounded and beveled edges for a snag-free design.
Available in Black. Made in U.S.A.
www.magpul.com/products/m-lok%E2%84%A2-tape-switch-mounting-plate-%E2%80%93-surefire%C2%AE-st
In addition to the new stock for the Remington 700 short action, Magpul also introduced a box magazine retrofit kit that fits their stock as well as OEM stocks.
It’s a simple swap. You remove the factory bottom metal insert and replace it with this kit. Designed to work with AICS pattern, short action magazines. This kit also includes the new Magpul PMAG 5 AC which just happens to be Magpul’s new polymer, Accuracy International pattern mag.
With the advent of the M3 magazine, Magpul decided to give you any color of magazine you wanted, as long as it was Black. Since then, they’ve been working on their materials and with this new Sand color, they are introducing a new material solution that will hold up to the rigors of use with firearms. Not only is it stronger than the current Black material but it can also be dyed to other colors or even distinctive designs and camouflage patterns.
SAND
SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE GEN M3 LINE OF PMAGS, THERE HAS BEEN A RECURRING THEME IN REQUESTS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS, AND THAT HAS BEEN A CALL FOR COLOR OPTIONS. UNTIL NOW, THE GEN M3 LINE HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED ONLY IN BLACK. WE’VE BEEN QUIETLY WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES ON SOME THINGS, AND WE’RE FINALLY READY TO SHARE ONE OF THOSE WITH THE WORLD.
We’re introducing a new color to our line. This color, officially named “Sand”, is as much an overall material development as it is a color development. “Sand” is a light, “non-black” color that closely matches some of the lighter tones in popular military camouflage patterns as well as many environments on the current battlefield. In addition to being less significant in the IR spectrum and ideal for many desert environments, this new material has several other meaningful benefits.
STRENGTH
This new Sand colored material shares many of the properties and components of our latest black material. Endurance, reliability, chemical resistance, stability, and other parameters are exactly the same. The main difference, due to some proprietary developments in composition, is strength. The GEN M3 AR/M4 PMAG is extremely resilient in black. However, as tough as our basic black material is, the Sand material is even stronger. We’ve seen very significant increases in feed lip drop and other rough handling tests from -60F to 180F—to an extent that it made our initial results hard to believe. Similar proportional increases in the other magazines in our line have been seen in our testing. With this increase in drop strength, we still see the resiliency that makes the PMAG what it is—Feed geometry does not change, unlike metal or softer polymer magazines—and so reliable feeding is not affected by this punishment.
ADDITIONAL COLORS
In addition to its physical properties, the color of the Sand material was chosen for another reason. It serves as a perfect foundation for water-based dye processes to change the color of the material or add camouflage patterns without adding surface thickness or scratching off with use. You can see some of the results of a few minutes with common RIT dye and cellophane wrap in the inset photo. If paint is the desired method of camouflage, “Sand” forms a great basis for this also. Dyed magazines can serve as the base for additional paint pattern options.
Expect to see the new “Sand” material making its way through our magazine line very quickly. We’ll have some video tutorials about using dye and paint to change the appearance of this material coming soon.
Check out this new magazine color as well as the entire line of Magpul products on their newly updated website.
In addition to a new look, it also features the full line of new products for 2015. What do you think?
As soon as Extreme Gear Labs saw the new 60 round D60 magazine unveiled earlier this week by Magpul they knew they had to make a pouch for it.
This is the first go around. Expect it to be refined as the magazines hit the streets.
