^^^ Exactly what wash said, up there. I don't even remember an internet gun supply until the very, very late 90s or 2000 sometime. Everything was through local shops - some were good, some were not good. You got what you could, you paid what you had to pay... etc. I was in the Army, so everytime I had a good mag that had an old date on it, I lost it on the range. Tragic, trying to keep track of that poop on a movement range. List all the details of the movement range on the AAR, have the Commander sign off on it, go to supply, tell 'em what happened, get new mags. I eventually got smart, and found yellow duct tape. I'd run two wraps of yellow duct tape around the bottom of all my training mags - made it a hell of alot easier to find them in the tall grass. I stopped losing mags after that. <thumbsup>