Aero EPC Mag catch upgrade
$29.95
22 in stock
Description
A replacement magazine catch for the EPC lower that raises the installed height of magazines to help with inherent feed issues.
Best results are obtained when used with Macon Armory Builders kit Or a Macon Armory Barrel and Buffer coupled with an AERO bolt.
Faxon Bolts and similar clones have issues and Macon Armory advises strongly against their use with our products.
As always….Macon Armory Deadblow buffers are intended to be used with a standard 5.56 AR carbine recoil spring.
5 reviews for Aero EPC Mag catch upgrade
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22 in stock
Ezra Lopez (verified owner) –
This single handedly solved all of my failure to feed issues. I built an AR-9 using the EPC-9 upper and lower receivers. I had all the parts that are well regarded as optimal for an AR-9 build, but the gun still would not feed hollow points. Even with the Macon Armory Guaranteed to Feed barrel.
A fellow Redditor pointed me to this mag catch, so I gave it a try and I have had 0 malfunctions with Federal HSTs and Sig Sauer Elite V- Crowns, two of the most jam-prone bullets in the AR-9 platform.
If you’re experiencing feed issues with your EPC-9, get this. It takes less than 5 minutes to install, it’s affordable, and it works.
Detailed Reddit post with pictures and videos here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AR9/comments/wefhl0/epc9_ftf_solved_with_macon_armory_mag_catch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
frank stair (verified owner) –
hey, I am the first to leave a review, yeah, all joking aside Rudy you are the man! I love your mag catch for the EPC-9 lower! it not only raises the mag up so the bullet is lined up with the bore better but it also eliminated all the slop I had with the mag being able to be pushed up or down with the factory Aero catch. thank you so much for all your help on all the forums too! I will try and post some pics if that’s ok and if it works.
https://i.imgur.com/t8NZL2x.jpg%5B/img%5D
with factory catch:
https://i.imgur.com/rqVfzLi.jpg%5B/img%5D
with Macon catch:
https://i.imgur.com/i6zVpup.jpg%5B/img%5D
Mark Hedges (verified owner) –
This was the final piece I needed to resolve the feeding issues I have had with my EPC. Now my EPC easily eats all the flat-nosed and JHP rounds that it used to choke on. Thanks, Rudy!
Sidney Sonck (verified owner) –
So… Mixed reviews. I bought two of these and tested them out on my EPC9’s – I have one with a Faxon bolt and barrel that ran flawlessly with this upgraded mag catch. Absolutely 5 stars – I can shoot hollow points, flat nose, everything. Now here’s the negative; I have another EPC setup with a Taccom Bolt and barrel – with this upgraded catch, the magazines will not fit. If you leave the bolt open and insert, it’ll fit but the first round will jam. Kind of a bummer and I hope Macon and Taccom get together to fix this.
Rudy Koester –
The Taccom bolt has a different profile than just about every other bolt on the market. The mag catch and our barrels are made to function with the vast majority of bolts on the market. It simply isn’T economical to tailor the mag catch to one companies propriatery offering.
Daniel (verified owner) –
I have been waiting to get my hands on this thing for almost 18 months. After extensive back and forth in 2021 with Rudy including sending him my barrel for feed cone machining and buying a new dead blow buffer, we eventually settled on this as the next best hope for saving my Range toy EPC9 build that would not shoot flat point subs out of a 33 round Glock mag.
Finally, after missing who knows how many batches of this thing I got one and went and tested last weekend. The results were stellar. Chewed right through an entire mag of flatnose subsonic, even with a dirty weapon. I am out flatnose for now because I stopped buying it due to this issue, but it’s great to know the build has been saved and is now more reliable than ever.
If your EPC is having trouble feeding and the magazine feels “loose” vertically in the mag well, give this a shot.