Nahhh I have two of the same mags, one in black and one in FDE and neither have any red lines on the springs. And they’ve never been messed with other than pulling out of the bag and loading
Tbh : as a PROFESSIONAL forklift driver person , I would have just took that for some kind of manufacture proof mark or consequence of the manufacturing process or something lol. I’ve always wandered about that myself but I don’t own any . I got like 20 windowless and I have zero ops so why buy more right lol
There should be paint on the spring that’s what you judge by.when you fire a few rounds it should line up with 25. I thought the same thing though when I first got one myself
you might not see any rounds in the mag after shooting/removing 15rds, but you do still see the orange mark on the spring indicating how full/low the magazine is which is still more helpful then not knowing how many rounds you have left at all like a standard p mag.@@xxxod
Hey man I'm an idiot too I don't own one of these magpul window mags but I never knew about the painted spring line as an indicator so we have been educated, good sir.
Thats a compensator line - on a full load when the brass can no longer be seen in the top of the window you still have ammo in the mag you just can’t see it because of the mag well so the powder coated line on the spring is marked below the full 30 rounds that comp line will be on 25 when you only have 25 rounds left or 10 so on and so forth
If you load 20 rounds in it, then look through the window and the spring arm that is matched up with the mark in the window labeled 20! This is the Spring arm that should be painted, if it isn't painted already...
I've seen people have this issue with cz .223 mags as well, you're not supposed to look at either the rounds or the follower, there's a line on the spring that actually shows the round count, you're not an idiot it's just not obvious at first
They line up correctly once you insert them into the mag well and pump the sniper button a few times. You might also have to cycle the shoulder thing that goes up once or twice.
@Adventure3Man you don't know about the sniper button? How else are you supposed to get a rifle that weighs as much as 10 boxes that you might move with to shoot accurately?
@Richthofen.115 the "sniper button" "shoulder thing that goes up" and the comment about an AR weighing as much as 10 boxes are all comments made by anti gun politicians who claimed to be gun experts but unintentionally proved they knew very little about firearms. The creator of this video made a mistake, and I'm throwing a jab at him for fun.
I appreciate your humility in these comments. My issue with the mags is that even the indicator line can be off by as many as five rounds. But the advice "It's to look see how soon you need to reload," is the best there is on the topic. Fire enough and you'll build the instinctive knowledge of how many are left after just a glance. If you don't have that wealth of experience, you at least know what full, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4 rounds left looks like.
No one is born with all the knowledge apparently you have. This is someone asking legitimate questions and instead of being reasonable and sharing your wealth of knowledge, you decide to be an ass.
everyone is talking about the line on the spring , I got news for y'all , not all of them came with line on the spring , I bought 10 of them and only one of them shows a line on the spring .
@@skwissgaar_skwigelf_kdz3251 don't think a big company like palmetto state is going to sell knock off mags , you're an idiot if you believe that , they can get sued big time , it's not worth it for them .
I've found the line on the spring to be off sometimes. I bought Sprinco flat wire springs in and repainted the line myself and it's more accurate than stock round springs.
Magpul's product video is very informative. i for some reason dont see a highliter orange painted coil, however, as per the product video, the last round should be right underneath that lower circle on the window, which you have here. So that is also another indicator of the 30rnds in a mag. Odd I dont see that very visible orange coil, maybe an assembly mishap??