Dummy rounds
They are adequate.
A great training tool
A great training tool which can be used for inserting with live ammo for immediate action drills, ensuring gun is cleared, practice loading, etc.
Would you recommend this?
Yes, I would recommend to a friend
Great Problem Solver
I bought these to use for 'blind' malfunction drills, hiding them randomly in magazines to force FTF events during practice. They worked flawlessly, feeding and ejecting cleanly. As I was using them I noticed (extreme)difficulty extracting with my reloads, not the dummy rounds. My die had crept during loading, all my rounds were +/-0.002 over max headspace. The dummy rounds gauge perfectly. And, yes, they instantly disappear in the grass. Paint them orange or bring your kids to find them.
MagPul 223 Dummy Rounds
I was looking for quality dummy rounds for safe dry fire practice and malfunction clearing drills. These fit the bill. Very sturdy construction and appears to be one piece construction that has good weight that feels like a live round. Loads and extracts like live rounds from two different mag manufacturers. Price is very good so I bought four sets for a full 20rnd mag in practice and for tactical and speed reloading drills with multiple magazines. Good stuff!
Perfect for training indoors
They chambered perfect for me. I use them to practice double feeds and reloads. I don't like the sound of sending the bolt home with an empty chamber. Tip: Don't use them outside in grassy areas. They will be lost.
Just ok
The armor at my work uses them so I thought I would give them a try. They are ok. They are great for checking the ejection on my rifles, but some of the ones I got had pretty large nicks and deep scratches in them. A couple of them get hung up when ejecting from my gun too. Overall they are a good tool for checking the functionality of the gun, and they are pretty cheap. Can't complain much.
Handy to have around
I bought these for dry firing and for practicing failure drills (mix a few of these with your regular ammo). No problem feeding from PMAG:s or G-MAG:s (haven't tried them in metal mags yet). My one complaint is the color - maybe black dummies work well in a desert environment, but in grass they will disappear "quite" quickly. Hopefully Brownells will start carrying the brick-colored Magpul dummies as well - I ended up buying a 12-pack of those after my first range session with the black ones. The color is the only reason this product does not get a 5-star rating from me.
Good Idea
Handy little things. Helps to have them for function testing without worrying about banging up the internals of a M-16/AR-15 during dry fire. They are also used with various other Magpul products to help install things like rails and stocks like the ACS. Only bad thing is they are all polymer with no spring in the center of the cartridge like a snap cap.
Not Bad
For the price its not terrible but would have purchased something else probably aluminum.
needed slight modification to the 'case'
like member 'sonic boom', these rounds also were difficult to chamber, and difficult to extract. I determined that the issue was that the case rim depth on these rounds is a bit too thick. I reduced the thickness by running the base of the rounds on some find grit sand paper, and they cycle perfectly now. other than the bit of tolerance mismatch, they are very nice, and a few minutes spent modifying them and they work perfectly.
