King Arms magazine question?

[yumadtho?]

I'm looking to buy a 5 pack of King Arms magazines for my Dboys full metal M4 CASV. Will they fit the magwell?

[nukeduster]

More importantly are they any good? The answer from my experience is no. Poor quality control. MAG brand mags seem to be pretty decent, about half my team runs them as a cheap mid-cap and have had no failures so far.

[axisofoil]

I had nothing but positive experiences with King Arms VN mags. They fed in pretty much anything we tried them in (the exception was a g36 with an m4 magwell adapter): including a dboys m4.

[nukeduster]

That is my point, its a lot like cheap motherboards and computers.. sometimes you get a good one and it lasts you faithfully for years, but often times they fail right out of the box, or shortly thereafter.

Team mate just bought a king arms loader and it failed right out of the box.

That is what poor quality control means. Some good, some bad.

[axisofoil]

I have 4 (out of a box of 7) MAG brand VN mags that failed within two uses. And the other box that a teammate bought of MAG VN's didn't work right, either.

So MAG also must have poor quality control?

Maybe on that product line. I have seen hundreds of MAG brand full-size m4 midcaps that worked flawlessly (with only a few that didn't work quite right). I have seen lots of faulty full-length king arms m4 midcaps that sucked a big one... and I have never seen a faulty king arms VN mag. So it is more likely that their QC is non-existant or their "engineers" are inconsistent in specc'ing through multiple product lines.

I believe the term "quality control" is being misapplied in this aspect. Quality Control's purpose is simply making sure that a product meets physical design spec's as printed on schematic/blueprints/drawings/whatever you want to call your manufacturing spec sheet. If those spec's weren't set out right to meet design intent, the best QC in the world won't make the product meet the design intent, only the manufacturing spec.

It might be worth the question: were you looking for full-size m4 mags, or VN-sized?

[wolfenblaze]

may i suggest looking into Magpul magazines. they appear to be some of the best on the airsoft market. evike.com is selling em 9 dollars a Mag or 42 dollars for a set of 5. though i heard the cheaper E mags work with G&G m4 magwells along with some other brands m4s.  but that is just my Two cents.