Thread: Wartime mags?
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Unread 03-02-2003, 03:59 PM   #2
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Eddie, I think it just comes down to real use. The magazine got beaten up by normal use

or maybe

They went to the range, all the guns were laying there, others loaded the magazines and so they got mixed up

Or by armorers, soldiers, some got broken and some got replaced

And then our GI's brought a gun home and I have heard more than once that a guy had two magazines, one nicer and he kept that one, while he gave away the numbered magazine.

All those things led to mismatched guns and magazines. The magazine is the easiest thing to mismatch, harder to do that than grips I think.

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