POTD: How to Separate Your 300 Blackout Magazines from Others
Our firearms are supposed to go Pew Pew and not Bang.
Previously at TFB, we have discussed a number of solutions how to separate – for instance – . 300 BLK magazines from the ones in .223 Rem / 5.56×45 mm.
We’ve looked at using labeled or colored rubber bands around the magazine, using different magazines but the method in Today’s Photo Of The Day is a bit more dedicated, expensive and luxurious.
But it is all to avoid things like this 300 Blackout in a 16″ 5,56 Barrel. Nope, it didn’t make it all the way.
All pictures are courtesy of iKote Ltd. (Sweden). As you can see these are Magpul PMAG30 Gen3 in 7,62×35 (300 BLK) that have been Cerakoted. You can also see some other 5.56×45 PMAGs in individual colors and patterns.
You might want to check out this 7,5″ AR-15 300 Blackout “Honey Badger”. The Honey Badger magazine would make an excellent fit.
What do you say? Is this a good way of keeping your AR calibers separated?
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Doesn't anyone ever look at the rounds as your loading a mag? Or for that matter, look at the ammo in the mag before inserting the mag into the weapon?! Try it sometime, its amazing how simple it is to do.
Black magazines only for .300 Blackout. Which have black furniture, slings, etc. Simple plan -- "Black stuff is for Blackout."
Any color BUT black for magazines and furniture for 5.56. (Exception made for my "XM16 clone"... but then, I'm not using USGI aluminum 20-rounders for anything but that gun anyway.)
Don't take .300 BLK and 5.56 guns to the range at the same time.
Not planning on issuing out multiple arms (especially in multiple calibers) in the middle of the dark, nor passing around multiple bandoleers of ammunition in the dark, so I'm not worried about grabbing the wrong magazine "under pressure", because if it's dark and I'm under pressure, the only AR15 gun or magazines I have at hand is the Blackout, because it's the "house gun". The 5.56mm stuff are down in the gun closet, along with the Garand, flintlocks, AKs, and everything else I don;t feel a need to have at my fingertips in teh middle of the night.
So, I don't have the need to be able to differentiate the magazines by feel, either.