AR-15 Magazine Followers – Magpul vs. Brownells USGI Tan

Some time back Brownells began producing USGI magazines with a tan no-tilt follower. As soon as these were released, many people, myself included were interested, as no-tilt followers tend to run more reliably in AR-15 magazines than the old USGI green and black followers.

One of my first purchases after buying some USGI magazines with the green followers was a handful of Magpul no-tilt followers for them. I was having some feeding issues with the green followers, and I’m one of those guys that has to have the newest, coolest thing, and at the time the Magpul no-tilt followers were just that.

I’ve run the Magpul followers in seven of my magazines for about a year now, and since doing so, my feeding issues that I was having have went away. Now, I’ve not done a complete torture test on these magazines, but I have used them in multi-gun matches, [...]