Very Impressed
Reviewer: gpshrader
10/21/2009
I purchased two of the South Korean KCI Glock M19 magazines, received them this morning and took them to the range to check them out.
After reading all the reviews I was skeptical, but being a Glock Armorer with plenty of parts, I thought: "If I have problems with them, I'll rebuild them with Glock springs and followers."
To my surprise both magazines functioned perfectly.
Just like Glock factory magazines they were difficult to load fully at first but after 4 or 5 reloads they began to soften up and take 12 to 14 rounds. I had none of the problems with the springs as some reviews had.
I'll leave them loaded for a few days and then I should be able to get 15 rounds in both of them.
Feeding was perfect. I fired about 50 rounds thru each magazine without a single malfunction.
As a firearms instructor, I'm not recommending these as primary defense magazines, but for practice, they are excellent.
I suspect the manufacture date on the packaging (8-10-09) may explain the perfect functioning. The South Korean KCI company may have listened to the customer complaints of prior manufacture and made corrections to the mags.
As a Glock Armorer and one that has daily carried Glock pistols and give law-enforcement and citizen concealed carry training, I can say the Glock factory magazines are not perfect, but they are very reliable. Time, and several thousand rounds should tell me how good the KCI mags are.