Drum Mag's Your Opinions?

[Soliex]

Im considering on buying a Drum mag for my M15A4, not exactly sure which brand because i have never personally seen a drum mag for the m16. Id like to get some people's opinions about them, im not to trigger happy and do conserve ammo. But i do find myself a lot of the times getting hit while reloading/swapping magazines. So im wondering if its worth shelling out about $150 for a drum magazine.

[Gestapo]

Stupid... as... hell.

Reloading under fire makes the game that much more realistic and fun. Unless you have a SAW/RPK/MG36/M240b/1919, DONT GET A DRUM MAG. It's deffinitly a firefight ruiner getting shot at by an MP5 with a 1500 round drum.

[Jacko]

Putting a drum mag on an AEG is cool, right up until your mechbox fries itself. I was using a C-Mag on an SR-16 for a while until the piston tore itself pieces during operation. It ended up cracking the mechbox shell and tearing up some other pieces. If I were you, I'd spend the money on buying a box of STAR mags and some standard magazines.

[Rogue1]

Roger that! The trick is in the tactics. You need to make the other guy run dry so you can bag him when he is reloading!! ;D

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Lame..

[Soliex]

by the sounds of things people dont like it so i probobally wont get one, it was just a thought.

[Crazyman™]

I agree with everyone else, go for the Stars or some mid-caps. They're much more fun! I prefer Star's since they're so cheap! If you lose a few, no big deal.

I happen to own a Hero Arms C-mag and It's been used once or twice as a saw type weapon to even out the teams in a small skirmish.. It's wasn't as fun as I expected. It totally dominated the other guys except for their saw gunner ( but it did compete ).

I wouldn't waste money on one unless you really have your heart set on it.

[Zorak]

Drum mags absolutely suck. Along with all the issues pointed out above, sooner or later you'll go to an op with mag limits. Then you get to decide whether to leave your $150 toy at home or become the guy everyone hates who won't stop whining about the mag limits.

Buy some Star mags and practice changing them. It's definitely something you can speed up with practice.

[Enkidu]

Not to jump on the drum-mag hate-wagon, but I'd like to add something I've noticed at recent events. If you blow all your mag money on a drum, you've set yourself up with a single point of failure. One bad BB or piece of sprue, and you're out of the game because your only mag has jammed. Any other malfunction will likewise set you out of the action, unless you have another mag. I saw it happen at OP: Flash Fire and at others as well.

If you're stuck on high ammo capacity, try buying a box of MAG brand midcaps. I happen to like swapping out lo-cap mags during games, but if you don't feel the same, midcaps are a great compromise.

[Jumprefusal]

Yeah I have one for my MG36, and even though it's a support weapon, it's useless to me now that the drum mag broke.

[Jacko]

jump, which drum mag did you get? I was thinking of maybe converting my G36k to an MG36 as backup for my SAW.

[Jumprefusal]

It was the TGS, back in the day when that was the only brand of drum mag you could buy. It was also 200 bucks. It worked great for almost 2 years though, now it won't feed and I can't seem to figure out why.

[Jacko]

Hmm. Does it make any noise when you try to operate it? Does it seem to be pushing BB's at all? I never had any real problems with my old C-Mag and TOP box mag except for BB's getting jammed up (And an ill-placed staple) in the gearing mechanism. I assume you've already tried to completely disassemble it, yes?

[Gestapo]

I remember your box mag jamming up at Northern Flight about... 2 years ago Jacko. That's deffinitly a problem with drum mags. I've seen them jam more than P90 high caps.

[Jacko]

Yeah, that's definitely their major failing. I've got a MAG boxmag for my 249 now which has the gearing mechanism self-contained though I've yet to test it out. We'll see how it goes.