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Mag or Lazer Mag

Jarnotski

By Jarnotski
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HarryG Community Regular

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I have a Lazer Mag and I love it. But I don't think the additional money is worth it. I think weight is a more important than how fast the whole is drilled. IMO the additional $100 will be better spent on other thing. Also, from what I am told, the Mag re-opens holes better than the Lazer. My LM has no problem with re-opening holes, but that is what I was told.

Good Luck!!!!

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computerboy Enthusiast

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It all depends on what your requirements are. If speed and ease of drilling are really important to you, a Lazer Mag would be the way to go. If money is tight, you might want to consider a used Lazer Mag to save on cash. In fact, there’s a fellow FM’er selling an almost new LM-8 with a 12” extension for $300 in the For Sale forum…but it’s probably not going to last long at that price. Another option would be to wait until the end of the season when the stores clearance them out. You'll be happy with either one though.

If this helps at all, the one thing I can say with total certainty is that I would never trade my Lazer Mag for a Mag chipper + $100 cash.

Have fun with your new toy!

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I have had a Mag for about 5 years now and it is a great machine. Not to bad for weight, runs good. Would like to get a Lazer and will probably buy the auger and put in on my Mag this year so I can drill holes faster. That being said, I have drilled lots of holes with my Mag and for the price would buy one again. They are a good machine especially for the price. And like the previous post says you can use the other $100 for a lot of other good gear.

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Borch Grand Master

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I've owned them both. Is the lazer mag worth the extra $100. For the way I fish definitely! I'm a runner and gunner. I could easily drill 2 holes with my lazer mag for every one with the mag2000. Plus I'll be exhausted after 30 holes with the mag and still pretty fresh with 30 holes using the lazer mag. You just have to do more work when using the the mag than the lazer mag which you don't even need to lean on to drill.

Just my 2 cents.

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But, it's not near as much work as drilling 30 holes by hand. grin.gif

I've owned the Mag for about 4 or 5 years now and like posted above, it gets the job done. I was also looking at replacement blade cost when I bought mine. The chipper blades are cheaper.

The Lazers are nice. You basically stand there and it pulls itself through the ice.

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But, it's not near as much work as drilling 30 holes by hand.
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Been there done that. I rarely fish before I've drilled at least 15 holes so I can start searching. I usually start out with 20-30 depending on the type of structure I'm fishing.

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If this helps at all, the one thing I can say with total certainty is that I would never trade my Lazer Mag for a Mag chipper + $100 cash.

AGREED, get the Lazer, you will not be disappointed.

I've had mine for 8 years, bulletproof & fast.

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