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until they don't :wink:

Or until the dropped dirty kicked stepped on extra. I will stick with PRI when lives are at stake like my wife and little girls and CP when there not or for playing games

 

[Test_User]

NO I like the CP mags jsut fine. I own 6 of them and use them frequently but for target and training only. The loaded mag that is in the gun when I go to be at night and the 5 others in the pouches next to it are PRis. Because if I ever have to pull a trigger more then once the last thing I want to be reliving the rest of my life is the silence when I pull the trigger instead of a boom and seeing my loved ones die all becasue I wanted to go cheap cause they seem to be good enough when I knew for a fact there was something better that was not prohibitively expensive. As RCrandall why he only uses Barretts on duty and CP for practice.. There is not a single person that knows mags that can holds a PRI and a CP and says they are both of equal quality. The fact is if you change to a stronger steel that PRI uses $5 and then upgrade the spring $10 to what PRI uses you are paying very little extra for the PRI label. I am never going to understand why people have trouble spending money on a good barrel and bolt but will buy a $300 hand guard or will have not trouble buying box after box of $20 a box ammo that at least 2 boxes will be gone in one range session but have trouble spending $40 on a mag that will last almost forever.

Match Barrel and LMT E bolt top accuracy useful life 10,000 rounds Cost $500

10,000 round (even reloads @ .35 per round $3,500) factory $8,000

Barrel and bolt cost per round $0.05

Mag life 20,000 and that's only needing a $10 spring change but for the sake of argument $40: $0.002 per round

When you put things in perspective its insignificant the money spent.

Yet an area you can save money that has zero effect on quality or performance and people turn away when you mention annealing their case necks which will double the life of the cases which will cut your case cost by 50% and with only 1K cases pay for itself and that is if you buy the most expensive auto annealer on the market.

Just something to think about.

 

[Test_User]

Absolutely. Everything is a balancing act no doubt. My only point being these are one time purchases that for all practical purposes never will need replacing. Some people have to be very careful and plan their purchases but for 99% of Americans they spend more on coffee, fast food then it would cost to buy a few of the PRi or pick some other item or whatever every month. You get to 1 if all you need is for HD. IF its really for total defense preparedness then 6-10 but once you have them you are done.Its as simple as working out a budget. If you can't afford it now then get a CP and work toward getting something better. But after all of this it is only nothing more then my opinion and whether it makes logical sense or not doesn't change the fact thats its only my opinion and everyone has one and will choose what they think is improtant. But when you have people that beleive a LaRue or DD rail is absolutely necessary which does almost nothing for reliablity of the weapons basic function but then are not willing to spend money on something that really effects function makes little sense to me personally. But that is me and obviously others will see it differently.