Reviews & Ratings for E-Lander Mags AR-15 .450 Bushmaster 7 Round Rifle Magazine — 4 reviews — Page 1

Doesn't hold 450 rounds, just a standard 5.56 mag with 450 bushmaster engraved on the side.

The good: can hold 8 rounds, smooth and sleek so insertion is easy, full metal, easy removal floor plate, slight curve aids holding the mag, high quality spring metal. The undecided: stagger load design follower. The bad: front of magazine is straight -no half circle cutout, the follower is not anti-tilt by far - it dips in about an inch or more, the feed lips are ajar so the cartridges get stuck sometimes.

I had a heck of a time at the range - constant jams. The main issue was that the ammo sat way back in the mag so when you drive it into the receiver, the top casing would interact with the bolt catch protrusion mean to activate bolt last open function (when the follower touches it upon last cartridge being spent). The naturally heavy recoil of 450bm would push all the cartridges forward so sometimes things did cycle correctly. But not reliably at all.

So I did the following fixes: opened the mag and reversed the spring front to back so the tip now supports the front of the follower; tapped the two tabs in the back of the mag so they hold the cartridges farther forward, exposing the follower correctly so it can interact with the bolt catch, hammered in the lips with a hard plastic hammer so they hold the cartridges tightly

Problems solved, but there are better mags for less money, like the ACS 7rnds which is an absolutely well constructed mag

Like my spouse... sturdy and functional. Full metal with rivets on the edges, screen printied E-Lander Mags with logo and .450 Bushmaster - wish it was a bit brighter, but it's still legible. I was surprised that the follower is plastic and very much looks like a 556 follower - dark gray. So when you load the 450 ammo, it kinda staggers them in a very slight zigzag pattern. Oh and the description is wrong - it actually holds eight (8) rounds, comfortably. With eight in it, there's a 1/4" inch give when you push with your thumb, and nice bounceback. 450 Bushmaster is a "straight wall"... kinda. It tapers at the end ever so slightly, so haveing a "kinda" banana mag makes sence in the feeding sequence. The follower is NOT tilt proof and it will tilt forward, deep, as the spring is pushy on the back. But the follower never got snagged - it always bounces right back. Pushing the eight rounds out with my thumb to clear the mag is effortless - got caught up on the very last round a bit, but that could be because the spring isn't broken in just yet. The bottom plate is tentioned by the spring but held in the a rather large detent, whcih is easy to push in with the time of the bullet so the plate can be removed. The front lip of the magazine is straight - some people use a dremel to file it in a crescent moon (half circle) so the ammo can "leave" the magazine better. I find that's completely unnecessary here, because the design of this mag pushes the top cartridge high, high enough in...
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This is the biggest size magazine I could find for 450 Bushmaster and it works great!