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The Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate replaces the floorplate on the real 5.56x45 PMAG/EMAG for AR/M4 carbines. That's right, it's made for real guns. When equipped the magazine, "the PMAG Ranger Plate provides unsurpassed speed and control during high stress, tactical magazine changes." These are direct substitute for the 550 paracord loop taped to the bottom of magazines by the military forces. From the looks of their design, it's easy to see that they provide more stable control of magazine changes than the original para-cord concept.
Although the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate is made for real gun magazines, they work perfectly well on the airsoft PMAG/EMAG replica. This article provide a run down of the Ranger Plate on various airsoft magazines.
The Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate comes in a package of three (see photo above). The manual for their installation is actually inside the cardboard backing. Based on U.S. law, the instruction for military firearms cannot be shown to foreigners. In the case of the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate, installation instruction is not really necessary, because you are just pulling the existing floorplate off the magazine and sliding the Ranger Plate onto the magazine base. It's even easier to perform on the airsoft magazine, because it doesn't have the locking tab that exists on the real magazine. The photo below shows the molding of the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate from all sides.
The photo below shows the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate on an airsoft Magpul EMAG 30 round magazine. The magazine is made out of polymer, while the Ranger Plate is made of extremely tough rubber. The Ranger Plate can break the fall of the magazine onto concrete floor in a speed change situation.
The photo below shows what the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate and the Magpul EMAG 30 on the APS ASR106 airsoft gun looks like.
It's possible to slide the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate onto a standard metal M16 magazine, such as the airsoft version shown in the photo below. The plate is extremely tight on the magazine, so there is no slipping. It's also rather easy to slide off with some force, when you want it off. The only problem is that the round end of the Ranger Plate won't match the rectangle shape of the magazine, so it sticks out.
Overall, the Magpul PMAG Ranger Plate is an excellent accessory, because it lets you perform fast standard reload. The process is: 1) pull a new magazine out with two fingers; 2) Pull the old magazine out with two other fingers; 3) load the new magazine; 4) tuck away the old magazine. You can do all that with the gun sight on the enemy.
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