Mission First Tactical MF-1 Extreme Duty Magazine

For the last couple of years, I've been using Mission First Tactical's standard polymer magazines, and I've loved 'em. I've used them on the tour, I've given them to a lot of students, and I've had a lot of students test and evaluate them, especially, seems like almost two years ago when I first started checking them out to make sure that they were as rugged and durable as we need, not just for professional use and for staging for home defense, but also out here on the range where we're dropping 'em, stepping on 'em, and really beating 'em up when we're doing the high volume practice that we do when we're developing our training skills. But now, Mission First Tactical is upping their game when it comes to magazines, and they've got a new Extreme Duty, new polymer magazine that's actually pretty cool. When you see it right next to their original standard magazine, you can tell right away it's just, it's beefier, it feels more rugged and sturdy in the hand, and the main reason why is because this is using a new polymer, it's 50% stronger and three times more impact resistant than their original already pretty darn good magazines. And this is with a longer fiber. So that's the deal here is it's got a longer fiber strand mixed into this polymer, and what that does obviously is make it more durable and more impact resistant. It's also got a flared base. You can see it's very narrow at the top, so you're gonna get easy into the magazine well, and definitely that drop free that you're looking for for your magazines when you're doing your reloads. But it's got a wider, more rugged grip which obviously is gonna make it more durable, but also gives you more to hold onto when you're pulling this magazine whether it's from a pocket, off a belt, outside of a vest, wherever you've got these staged. Now you can see right here, we've got some really good neurals for finger grip here, when we're inserting, I like to put my finger up at the top so I can find that magazine well. Once I find that magazine well, I wanna push in and insert and then give a good tug to make sure that it's seated. And this grip area is gonna definitely let us do that. It's got a four-way anti-tilt follower and that's a self-lubricating follower with a material that it's constructed of. It's got a very durable GI Spec spring, and one of the cool things I like about this extra thick base plate, is that it is tool is disassembly. So, the notches here are wide enough, you can get your fingers in there and just slide that back and actually take this apart right there without even pickin' up so much as an empty piece of brass to push those in which is nice. The other cool feature you see down here on the bottom is it's got a little series of dots so that you can fill that matrix in to code, you can use a paint pen to color it one color for your training rounds, one color for your home defense rounds, maybe you're gonna do some other kind of code for your hunting round, something like that. Or, you can use these rows or these dots to number your magazines also so you can track them that should you have any problems in the middle of your training, you can know, "Oh, that was magazine number three," and see what that issue was. But quite honestly, I wouldn't expect must issue from these extreme duty rugged magazines- a new thing from Mission First Tactical, like I said, I was really happy with the old ones which they are still going to construct. Those are the standard magazines. These extreme duty, I think these are gonna be great. And if you're looking for something that's even more durable than their standard magazine, this is the way to go. Look for 'em at a store near you soon.