>>63985978Wafflefag here, I love the waffles, they look great, feel great, the 42 rounders are great. I do competitions with a team of 4, and considered getting the NATO stock for magazine interoperability but it's very rare to share mags as everyone has a full kit and no stage uses more than a couple mags. In a couple years of running competitions I think I shared a mag once, but lost dozens of mags because whenever loose AR mags end up in a pile my team mates seem to make off with them. They can't use my AUG mags so noone takes those.
The only real actual and true reason to get the NATO version would be if you already have a bunch of kit that holds AR mags and you don't want to change anything. It was a bit of a shock and pain in the ass to get my plate carrier and belt setup with waffle mags due to the catch on the back of the mag and the fact I was set up for AR mags. I ended up modifying some AK mag inserts to get my shit to work.