DefenseReview (DR) owner/editor-in-chief handles the Schmeisser S60 60-Round 5.56mm NATO/.223 Rem. Mag (Magazine) with Window at SHOT Show 2023. Read and discover more about it at defensereview.com.
I traded every surefire magazine I had to one of my dealer friends for two of these Schmeißer 60 round mags per Surefire. The Schmeißer 60 round mag is superior in EVERY WAY to the Surefire 60 round mag. In the Surefire mags, I had severe loading problems with anything over 62 grain rounds, the folding follower wouldn’t fold properly in the surefire system, the spring wouldn’t provide constant pressure causing the mag to dump half the rounds perpendicular to the flow of the rounds, down into the body of the magazine completely disabling it. I sent them back to surefire three times and they cut them and welded them back guaranteeing they’d be fully functional every time, but I would never trust my life to any of them. Friends that are Marines using the hundred round mags off and take one or a couple they know work, and then just bring 30 round mags for their IAR’s. The Schmeißer mags, I would take into combat right now without hesitation. Schmeißer also makes a 60 round magazine for 7.62 x 39 mm AK-47s, and they are awesome as well. I’m not sponsored by anybody come I don’t have any kind of financial incentive to recommend one over the other, but I endorse the Kraut mag over the American mag every time based on experience with many of both, plus you can get two Kraut mags for the cost of one American mag that doesn’t work. that alone is worth considering. Also, the Kraut mag has worked and everything I’ve thrown it in from M249’s, two 10 1/2 inch semi auto SBR’s to select fire M16 A2’s, to SOPMOD BLOCK 2’s to the new Geissele uppers and LMT’s 12.5” QD barrel uppers. My buddy who is an SRT just bought a belt fed shrike style upper for when his M-16 lowers and I guess the system he said he’s getting is like a saw and that you can switch between a bag and a belt. He said he plans on using a lot of his Kraut 60 mags in it. I don’t know what it is cause I haven’t heard of any kind of upper that does that on an M16 lower, but he’s been waiting a while for it so it could be some new system. The good news is, both companies have good warranties, the resale value is great on both and if anything is wrong with a sure fire mag you can send it back an infinite number of times to get it fixed or ultimately replaced. Surefire’s has the best customer service and warranty in f any gun related company I’ve ever dealt with. I can’t say that about other companies like L3, where I have a PEQ 15 it’s been used to kill nuisance animals on ranches and farms and neighborhoods with NODS at night, and has maybe, MAYBE 20 total hours on it of run time; and is it not holding a zero. But because it’s out of their warranty period, They want $250 just to investigate and inspect it, not including any kind of repair for the slaved laser carriages or anything. That in my opinion, is bullshit. I definitely will be buying an EoTech OGL or BE Meyers MAWL instead of any L3 product for my next laser aiming device. I have a friend currently in a 7th SFG ODA who bought several full power SOMOGEAR PEQ’15’s for his private training company guns, and said they hold zero well enough to use in a guerrilla warfare situation or home defense. He said he might not be taking head shots at 25 or 50 m with them, but will still be getting solid and lethal center mass hits out to 200M+. That’s a pretty good endorsement for the $250 full power airsoft copy versus the $2500+ L3 mil spec version. if you are on a budget and want to be able to equip a fire team for the price of one milspec ATPIAL, check those out too. Sorry about the frequency hop there at the end, I figured I’d just throw it in. If it were me, I’d rather get two for the price of one, because two is one and one is none .
These are insane! Gen 2(orange follower) is dead reliable, I saw these firsthand being used on the streets and man those ten seconds of the kid blowing his wad was horrifying yet orgasmic.
