Can a AR10 take a unmodifed G3 mag?

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The G3 mag is a surplus mag. That is why they are inexpensive right now. Sooner or later the source of these mags will dry up and the price will start to climb. At one time you could get FAL mags for $5 or less each. The price had risen to 3 or 4 times that before the current sharp jump. Any lower designed to take a surplus mag from a non-current issue gun will run into that problem. The source of surplus mags will end and prices will rise. One of the things that made M16 mags cheap was that they are producing them in quantity for many current in front line guns. Large production equals less expensive. The current price situation is not normal concerning anything to do with guns. There is no mags available that you can count on being low priced for long in the current market environment.

CMMG has already done the research a development work for a G3 mag .308 lower. A short run of G3 lowers might pay off for them If they weren't already running their machines flat out making regular mag lowers.

I would buy a G3 lower right now if I came across one at a reasonable price. Then I would then immediately buy a lifetime supply of G3 mags or at least as many as I could afford.

This is total speculation on my part.

The three rule of predictions-
1. As soon as you make a prediction you know you are going to be wrong. You just don't know by how much and in what direction.
2. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
3. And most importantly, if you are ever right, don't ever let them forget it!

A question- Is it 'gouging' if the price of a mag goes from $5 to $9 in less than a year?

Have A Good Day.

To answer why they stopped. The article I read said you had to do a small clearence cut on the upper. That combined with the increasing availablity of other reasonably price mags made the G3 lowers not as marketable I'm guessing.