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Best AR15 Magazine in 2026: Aluminum, Steel, or PMAG?

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27 COMMENTS

  1. Lancers and Pmags are all I trust, Ive got other magazines, aluminum, steel, polymer but none are as good as Lancers and Pmags.

    Pmags are about half the price of a Lancer so Pmags win by default.

  2. Replace the followers in aluminum magazines with MAG110, check the spring lengths/diameter, and gauge the feed lips. People talk trash about aluminum mags but they are often the best priced. All my steel mags have sharp feed lips that shave brass into the action.

  3. P-mags.. and lancers aren’t bad.. I tend to go with Daniel defense mags just because I’ve literally not had one issue with any of them.. but I also haven’t with pmags either

  4. Everytime I took my own magazines to the range in the army to qualify I never had a single malfunction. Several people had malfunctions every iteration but no one wanted to listen when I said it was their magazines doing it.

  5. My days in batt came after yours. We had the aluminum mags with the green followers, absolute trash. We eventually got the updated tan anti tilt followers that were better, but the PMAGs were the most reliable and indestructible. Most people went out and bought their own and put their initials on them with a paint marker to keep people from stealing them.

  6. And be aware that not all polymer magazines are created equal. I tried some budget ones from Sportsmans Guide just because. Well, cheaper is…well… cheap. More failures to feed in one trip to the range than i ever saw in 11 years in the Army.

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