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magazines popping up at an alarming rate at gun shows and shooting ranges.\u00a0 So the bottom line, does the KCI do the job for cheaper or is this another piece of crap aftermarket magazine that has no business in a handgun?<\/p>\nOur Review on the KCI Magazines made for Glocks.\u00a0 Click the READ MORE below to read our article<\/p>\n
by Jessie Indracusin<\/p>\n
Many of you own the most popular handgun on the market (or at least a variant of it).\u00a0 Specifically I am talking about the Glock 17.\u00a0 I am seeing these magazines popping up at an alarming rate at gun shows and shooting ranges.\u00a0 So the bottom line, does the KCI do the job for cheaper or is this another piece of crap aftermarket magazine that has no business in a handgun?<\/p>\n
The KCI magazine is made in South Korea.\u00a0 It is offered up to a 1\/3 of the price of a Glock factory magazine.\u00a0 I picked up this 17 shot 9mm magazine at a gun show for $10.00.\u00a0 I have such horrible luck with aftermarket magazines, I would have been reluctant to even try if the price tag wasn’t so low.\u00a0 I keep hearing good things from dealers at the gun shows (who are routinely known for being one step below a used car salesman on the trust level).\u00a0 At the end of the day, when you are at a gun show and the first thing a dealer does is size up how much money you have and what is the maximum amount of money they think they can get from you, in general, they are not the most reliable source of information.<\/p>\n
Anyways, so out of curiousity and a benefit to my users, I purchased the KCI Magazine and wanted to do some tests against the Glock, trying to see how this magazine stacks up to the factory.<\/p>\n
To be totally honest with you, designing a magazine, which is pretty much a magazine body, spring, floor plate and follower, sounds very straight forward.\u00a0 So when confronted with these being produced in Asia for slave labor wages, I thought how hard would it be to really copy the most popular magazine (outside of an AR15 magazine) being produced for the American Consumer?<\/p>\n
When you compare the magazines side by side, everything looks like an absolute copy.\u00a0 I was taking some very careful measurements of each of the ![](\"http:\/\/www.civiliantacticalweapons.com\/wpctw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/img_2569.jpg\")
components and only noticed the following anomolies between the two.\u00a0 The KCI Magazine has the follower stick up further than the factory Glock Magazines and has more of the follower exposed in the rear of the magazine.\u00a0 So the real question for me was, how would it hold up firing rounds?\u00a0 Would it create feeding problems? Will the magazines fit well in the gun? Can you load up the magazine to a full 17 rounds and fire reliably?\u00a0 These were all sorts of questions I had.<\/p>\n
Playing around with the magazines in the studio, I noticed no issue at first.\u00a0 I was loading the magazines, practicing slide release and sling shotting the slides, it all seemed to work properly in the studio.\u00a0 My question was how would it survive the range?<\/p>\n
\u00a0So off the range I go.\u00a0 I had some shoot tests I needed to do and determined that bringing the KCI magazine along would be a good option.\u00a0 So I start loading up the gun with standard 115 grain Winchester 9mm Range Ammo.\u00a0 The 100 round box ammunition you can sometimes get at Walmart for just under $20.00.<\/p>\n
Everything seems to be looking good.\u00a0 I start firing various rounds, no issues, very clean.\u00a0 I have this strange look of disbelief in my face.\u00a0 Have I finally found an aftermarket magazine that is both cheap and reliable?\u00a0 Maybe how fast I shoot the gun will cause problems?\u00a0 Maybe the magazine would start screwing up after a few hundred rounds? My mind was starting to wonder what type of torture tests could I do?\u00a0 Then all of a sudden, critical show stopper.<\/p>\n
I push the eject button on my Glock 17 and nothing happens?\u00a0 Curious, I pull the magazine out of the bottom of the gun and stick the empty magazine back in again.\u00a0 Push the magazine release, nothing.\u00a0 I put a Glock factory magazine in the gun, push the button, magazine drops cleanly and hits the floor perfectly.\u00a0 Surely\u00a0KCI would not create a magazine that wouldn’t even survive a basic empty magazine drop test.\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 I even started to violently shake the gun, trying to force the magazine to drop out of the bottom.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 This magazine was stuck in this gun as tight as Donald Trump’s toupe on his head.<\/p>\n
So at that point, all further tests ended.\u00a0 Any magazine that does not drop free from a gun is a dangerous magazine.\u00a0 Everyone needs to train with speed loading there guns.\u00a0 When a gun goes dry, the fastest way to reload is letting the empty magazine hit the ground and slapping a fresh magazine in.\u00a0 Having to pull the magazine from the bottom of the gun is a complete show stopper.\u00a0 This is a definite DO NOT BUY magazine (unless you are doing a shooting competition and want to screw up your rival by carefully mixing these magazines in with his.<\/p>\n
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