What's the point behind see-through magazines?

Manufacturing costs

see how many bullet u hav left

>>34729963
yeah what he said xd

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>>34729941
The seeing part.
Eight rounds in there.
How many in here?

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>>34729941
Ease of checking ammunition, and a positive way to tell empty/used magazines from fresh ones.

Also, they're sexy as fuck, and fun to watch deplete when firing (or rather, someone else is firing)

>>34729962
>>34729963
but it lets dirt and shit get in there

>>34729985
And if your gun is made right it should be easily brushed off to the point where it doesn't affect the function of the firearm.

What a lot of these tests don't do is attempt remedial action BEFORE shit's fucked to hell.

>>34729985
>what is see-through polymer

>>34730000
But if shit isn't fucked, why are you performing remedial action?

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>>34729985
unless it doesn't

>>34730024
there are no see-through polymer magazines, no modern gun uses see-through mags

>>34730037
see >>34730036

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>>34730037

>>34730054
>>34730056
sorry, I meant pistol magazines

there is no modern pistol with see-through magazines

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>>34730065
>not having X-Ray vision

Even though this seems like a sort of unrealistic videogame scenario: what if you were bluffing having bullets left but then because of your seethrough mag the person knew you were full of shit?

>>34730087
Shot him with the bullet left in the chamber

>>34730025
Because it WILL be fucked.
Why not brush off the gun?
Shake it a few times?
Wipe it off with your sleeve?
Nobody is fucking stupid enough to try and drive a car that's caked in mud so bad you can't tell the wheel from the wheel well.
Why should firearms be different?
>>34730024
It's a cheap way to make shitty old metal magazines have the same function while also not being made from polymer.

>>34730037
>not knowing that plastic without colorant additive is either clear or opaque when taken from raw resin and melted then molded
t. Polyethylene processing technician

>>34730084
> WATCH OUT ITS GONNA BLOW

>>34729985
>Implying a Makarov gives a shit about dirt

>>34730136
Makarovs are old milsurp commie guns, they're pretty unreliable

modern guns are made better

>>34730149
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAEbbhRJNYw

So...I believe that a crow sandwich is in order.

>>34730087
Dirty Harry would have been a lot less interesting.

>>34729962
Making that window is extra work anon

>>34729941
you answered your own question.

>>34729985
You mean when it's in the gun and completely covered or when it's in the mag pouch completely covered

>>34730065
You mean like the wildly popular ETS mags, the jet funnel mags or CZ scorpion mags, because legally that last one is a pistol too

>>34730087
What mag gun do you know of that has a mag well that wouldn't have 1/4 to 1/3 of the mag hidden in the gun

>>34729941
Just fuck you OP.

I get that you are genuinely a shitposter and are out just to get this kind of response, but fuck you.

What is the point? Obviously so you can look and see how many rounds you have left in the magazine.

>>34729985
>but it lets dirt and shit get in there
Who the fuck cares, the magazine is either a) in the pistol or b) in a magazine pouch. So no, it does not let dirt and shit get in there unless you are quite literally swimming in soupy mud or have fucking butterfingers and fumble your reload.

>>34730065
Because many modern magazines have witness holes that do that same damn thing. I'm sure some one some where has made a pistol magazine out of see through polymer but the companies that manufacture pistols didn't make any because no one asked/required them.

>>34730198
>extra work
>singular extra step fee every magazine, saves enough metal so that for every two mags you make you have enough metal left over for a third
>adds the ability to easily check the levels of ammunition left.

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>>34730149
>Makarov

>unreliable

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>>34730037
Cunt

>>34730787
yes, you wouldn't trust your life to a Makarov, would you?

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To let other people know how many rounds you have left in your magazine.

>>34730910
hell yes I would.

>>34729969
Turn it around 90 degrees clockwise and let's find out.

>>34731052
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, anyone got a flashlight?

>>34730910
I would actually, you noguns faggot.

>>34730065
H&K P8 uses them

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Makarov-chan has it so therefore it is good design and completely superior to everything.

>>34730910

I do literally every time I carry.

They're awesome little guns

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>>34731052
Still don't know

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>>34729969
>92fs-maga[1].jpg

Beretta 92 mags have holes in them that let you see how many rounds are in the magazine. Lots of other manufacturers do this.

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>>34730994
>>34731440
>>34731662
samefag

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>>34729963
Just get one of these bad boys

>>34729963
What about the bullets on the right though?

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>>34731931
Those are a thing?

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>>34729941
in this modern age, lasers can destroy material provided the material they are destroying is what the laser's frequency is attuned for. While Dynamic focus and witness precursor lasers allow for rapid adjustment, this is not always the case, nor is such equipment always available.

Lasers often pass through transparent objects harmlessly. Thus you protect your gun by skeletonizing it. Transparent polymer is a good structural choice, thus mitigating your available absorptive surface area.

I worked at my dad's nintendo factory under the laser special forces in the sega wars. All my friends area dead and I have PTSD every time I see sonic, but at the end we won. That was worth something right? right anon?

>>34731931
More info on that?

>>34732919

https://www.radetecusa.com/en/products/

a beautified version of a DIY tool. Check it out; optical sensor counts shells as they fly by, counter subtracts shells from the number you enter in.

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>>34731931
>>34733203

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>>34730037
Kek

>>34730065
Aftermarket clear glawk mags can be had, I think magpul makes them.

>>34730198
>cheaper material

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>>34730037
>>34730065
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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>>34730065
Dumbass

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>>34731931
This has been an autistic fantasy of mine since my first .22

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>>34729941
Because looking cool gets you bitches.

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>>34735468

>>34734367
>>34734382
I carry my Glock 26 with a 15-round ETS mag on the daily, can confirm they're good mags, as reliable as Glock brand Glock mags. And they just look so much cooler.

>>34733494
Hella

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>>34733203
Hoooooboiiiiii

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>>34733605
Fuck Yeah
Love my waffles

>>34732793

>Invest millions upon millions on one weapon

>Invest the same ammount for an army with weapons that are battle proven

>>34730114
Does that mean we could have see through glocks?

>>34735883
The way theyre made, they wouldnt be actually clear, just colorless plastic
Im not sure if they could be made clear like you want while still being stable enough to last

>>34735966
I know it's from Romeo and Juliet, but this has to be bait...

>>34735966
do you bite your thumb at me?

>>34735928
Rip my dreams of a glock 7

>>34735966
Is Dems.... Dymens?

>>34735980
Indeed I do sir

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>>34735966
What would you guys think of a mix of these to 92s?
Id like to make a chrome one with the exposed barrel like a P38, and have the see through mag
I'd like the cut-out slide too, but none of the other steampunk crap
Itd probably just be a range toy as there are too many open holes in it

>>34735488
I am unironically considering clear grips for my 1911 now

>>34736053
Just put some gear on it and call it steampunk, that's the trendy fashion nowadays.

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This is a thing from a game

>>34736092
But thats not what I want at all
I want a chrome 92 that you can see through with a P38 barrel
I think it wold be far more 50s buck rodgers future than steampunk

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>>34736115
>you will never shoot Russian Nazis with the unholy love child of a Mosin and K31.

>>34731753
kek

>>34730417
Yeah and that extra step takes time as does reforming the metal left over back into sheetsteel again. You aren't building it in your garage. Witness holes accomplish the same thing. Cutouts work fine but it's not magically cheaper because you get less material

>>34733203
>...in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track of myself. Sadly, my department mandated this questionably useful round counter on my service weapon, so I already know damn well that I've got one left in the pipe.

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>>34736092
I quite enjoy the steampunk aesthetic, but what I beheld there was rather pathetic.

Are you retarded OP?

>>34730036
>melts