Knock-off PCP magazines?

I take it then you only buy parts for your vehicles sold by the manufacturer? As in you only buy OEM replacements like breaks, batteries, oil, filters etc? I don't. Charging $100 for a simple part is gouging because you can. I will admit factory parts are usually the best quality some folks are on a budget. Im not going to call out specific gun manufactures here because some might be site sponsors but a little capitalistic competition is a good thing.

Seems kind of silly that the op did not look at this cost prior to purchase of said rifle. It's like a Mercedes vs a Jetta. Buy what you can afford, but to go around being unhappy in life feeling cheated is your problem. Try a little fore-thought prior to purchases in the future and you will be a lot happier.

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Good find. ...I just love these posts about stealing people's ideas etc....some people have some very odd ideas but hey to each his own....if the airgun market was bigger in the US I would make airgun mags and accessories but it just isn't worth the effort on a production level. On the same machine I can make a 1022 part and have a much larger market....but I am building a new air rifle in my spare time and it will see production. And if someone wants to copy it part for part I will give them the detailed drawings. My guess is it would cost them 10 times what I will sell them for if they built it themselves and that's if it even worked. Production. Is all about volume making up for R&D and testing etc. If all I sold was 1 gun it would have to pay for 20-30k worth of development cost. And my guns will use a mag that another companies gun can use. I have no need to reinvent the wheel. 
I am also building a 22 rimfire prototype. ...it will use 1022 mags because I have no reason to waste money on mag development.

@Blackdiesel I found this seller on EBay who makes FX compatible magazines. I contacted him to get some information and the response was quite interesting. What he does is use better materials (more metal) and also he has them rotate the opposite direction. This way he avoids any conflict regarding patents. Once a design patent expires it becomes a moot point, i.e the car part market. I just also saw the dude who designed the side shot scope mount also developed a 22 round magazine for the impact that you can remove the normal rotating plastic piece to make loading easier. It also includes some type of adapter to fit it to the rifle. I applaud these folks for their ingenuity and hope that it continues. I sense a bit of hipocracy here as one of the posters (who I will not mention by name bc he has awesome posts all the time) was suggesting falsifying a warranty claim, now is bent out of shape bc of knock offs?

"blackdiesel"

"BEN342R"Seems kind of silly that the op did not look at this cost prior to purchase of said rifle. It's like a Mercedes vs a Jetta. Buy what you can afford, but to go around being unhappy in life feeling cheated is your problem. Try a little fore-thought prior to purchases in the future and you will be a lot happier.

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Why don't you ask before making uninformed and stupid statements? I did factor cost of magazines before buying the gun. But do that mean I have to agree with the price? It came down to if I wanted a particular gun I had to pay their price for the magazine and that's what pissed me off. There are no options except buying over priced magazines and feeling like you are getting gouged.

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I am not disagreeing that you're getting gouged a little. If you think you can make magazines cheaper and make a living doing it-go for it. You made the choice to buy it. So you lost a little beer money. My next rifle will be an fx, but I won't be whining about the 100 bucks for a second mag, rather, I'll be happy that I have a world class rifle that will be around long after I'm gone. If I wanted cheap I'd buy a marauder. Not knocking them, just not what I want.

My takeaway from this whole conversation was this one line:

"That’s just silly capitalist thinking."



Priceless !

My 2 cents.I bought Two mags for the wild cat 40 bucks a piece plus tax.One worked the other didn’t that’s bull crap.

Most mainline PCP mags have the same design DNA. At some point they stopped being knock-offs, and became variations. Variations of the same thing wind up coming from an increasing variety of sources.... “Et al.”