{"id":385545,"date":"2023-01-13T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/?p=385545"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:14:39","slug":"magpul-glock-17-mags-as-good-as-the-oem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/magpul-glock-17-mags-as-good-as-the-oem\/","title":{"rendered":"Magpul Glock 17 Mags: As Good as the OEM?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Glock aftermarket space is packed with magazines, grips, sights, triggers, recoil springs, barrels\u2014even entire guns that have no official affiliation with Glock but are spittin\u2019 images of the original. (Looking at you, Shadow Systems, and a handful of others.) The effort makes sense. After all, Glock is the bestselling polymer pistol brand on the market and has been for many years. If you\u2019re going to pick one brand to support, choose the one that will likely make you the most money. It\u2019s just smart business.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, the folks at Magpul have never been called stupid, so it makes sense they would make magazines for one of the most popular guns in the world, the Glock 17. Magpul has been known for outstanding magazines for a variety of guns for a very long time. From AR and AK mags to pistol mags, Magpul has been knocking it out of the park<\/a> like they know what they\u2019re doing for decades, which is good since it\u2019s kind of in their name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until a few years ago, I wasn\u2019t a big Glock guy. I didn\u2019t hate Glocks. I was Glock agnostic. I had shot a few here and there but didn\u2019t own one. That is until I won one in a charity shooting match. Ironically, I won it by beating everyone else with an outdated Walther PPX. What can I say? Walther makes excellent guns. And it proves that you still have to be able to shoot, no matter what gun you use. But I digress…<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Glock 17 was from a private collection and came with a Magpul magazine the original owner had purchased a couple of years back. He had run a few boxes through it but wasn\u2019t a big Glock fan, so he put the 17 up for a prize. Lucky me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the past five years, I\u2019ve taken the gun to the range many times, added a red dot (it\u2019s a Gen 4 MOS), and upgraded the trigger (yay for all the aforementioned aftermarket support). I also swapped out the Walther as my competition gun and replaced it with the more modern firearm. The Glock also lives in the safe under the bed as my home defense gun. It\u2019s very versatile. But this article isn\u2019t about the Glock 17; it\u2019s about the Magpul G17 magazine<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the tech specs straight from the Magpul website:<\/span><\/p>\n