Reviews & Ratings for Pro Mag Ruger Mini-14 .223 Rifle Magazine — 9 reviews — Page 1

Pro Mag Ruger Mini-14 .223 Rifle Magazine fits like a a factory mag.

Pro Mag Ruger Mini-14 .223 Rifle Magazine fits good and works great.

Outstanding magazine works great.i highly recommend to others.

I ordered these for my stainless mini 14 to match tge color of everything. They feel great, nice quality, perform as described and they match pretty well. My main complaint about them and this could be because they are new, is that when you try to eject the magazine it tends to get stuck in the magwell and you have to push it down with your finger or a spart casing, its not so stuck that it takes effort but trying to juat pull it out didnt work. They do feed great and i had zero other issues with these mags.

First I have to agree with Joe that they insert more easily than my OEM mags. The latch "block" is folded metal like the Ruger 5-round style rather than the welded on block like the Ruger 10-round.

The thing with these rifles is that they're very sensitive to how high the top round in the mag is. Too low and the bolt slides over the top. That's obvious. Too high and it pushes up on the bolt as it's trying to eject and can cause ejection problems. (The bolt has some slop in it to allow for it to work dirty, and if it's being pushed up and to the right, like when it's extracting the second casing, the ejector tab can barely scrape the edge of the empty casing rather than knock it loose from the extractor claw)

These can be adjusted by bending the top tabs with pliers to get it right, but you're wasting ammo and range time until you get it right. Maybe you could get it set by manually cycling dummy rounds, but you can't really simulate the way the bolt gets violently thrown around.

The nickel ones do look classy on a stainless rifle though.

The pro mags feed smoother than the actual Ruger branded mag for me, the only other mag I tried. I would not advise dropping them on the plastic bottom too often. its more of a rigid plastic than a polymer.

I previously ordered 8 10 round magazines for my new Ruger Mini-14 as the factory magazines are nearly twice the cost. At first all seemed to work o.k. with a few misfeeds at the beginning of one or two magazines per my earlier review. So I gave this product a 4 star review with the proviso that I thought the issue would resolve itself. Such is not the case however. Subsequent use indicates that there are some serious issues with how these magazines work. My latest experience was one in which I used all 8 fully loaded magazines, and during that time I had multiple random misfeeds. I was only able to resolve the issue by pulling and reinserting the magazine before it would strip a round into the chamber. As a matter of fact I got a "click" in stead of a "bang" twice from the same magazine! If I were to rely on these magazines in a self defense scenario I fear I'd be in serious trouble. Even my local gun smith (a Mini-14 guru) tried to fiddle with his Pro Mag magazines, and he gave up and got Ruger originals. I may keep the mags (for practice at the range) or destroy them, as I can not in good conscience sell them. Meanwhile, I will bite the bullet and get Ruger factory original magazines.