I have been shooting .30 cal carbines for over 30 years. Always for fun. These mags are the best built I have ever used. I do own a Triple K mag which I purchased to check the quality. In my opinion the CTD FN mags are a bit more solid and seem to be better built. Nothing against the Triple K, it works fine, but I am back here to order two more of these FN mags.

I am bragging again on the FN/USGI mags CTD sells for the M1 Carbine, have bought 4 more and each work as well as the first. The price is worth it, very minimal surface rust, cleaned that up and the mag is fine, only one had more rust than the other 3. But that was minimal it would not take away from the appearance of the mag or function. That cleaned well with a wire brush on a drill and in about 5 seconds, sprayed with clear dull-cote lacquer and done! Thanks CTD! Buyers beware of knockoffs that others sell. as I said before the mags are POS, would never depend on them for my life in a self defense situation. If u dont like the FN/USGI Mags return them for a refund simple as that. Always had great luck with CTD!

I want to say I shot from the FN mags or the USGI mags today. Not one jam and ran 30 rounds through the rifle in succession, a National Postal Meter from CMP. I didnot have one jam, one stove pipe or one double feed, however, I had another mag that I got from Sportsmanguide and it did its usual knock off thing, stove piped, it is a POS. The FN's that Cheaperthandirt advertises work, not saying all will, but mine works great and will buy more. The 30.00 bucks is worth it if the thing functions as designed. Buy and shop where you will but anything other than geniune USGI or FN issue maybe be a imposter than can get you killed in a tight if you don't know how to deal with a stove pipe, double feed or jam................

For $.03 more you can get better at TripleK without any pot-luck chance of getting a fizz-bomb that could ruin your piece or chances of surviving in a sel-defense role.

After reading the CMP review on 30 rd mags, I was happy to find the ones you sent were recommended as high quality. They were FN made issue to Belgium and Holland. They had the correct markings and were not faked. Although not USGI, they were high quality.

These are not real GI magazines. The cutout on the back is not correct. They are missing the crimp on the front roll.

Cheaper Than Dirt Says: After further inspection of these magazines, we noticed that we have a mix of US GI and international military issue. We have suspicions that some were made here and then shipped overseas for military use by other countries. Then they must have re-surfaced again in the US and are being sold as GI. Thanks for the info, Ed. Hopefully we have these magazines described properly now and some lucky customers will get GI mags at random.