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Re: AK-47 Issue

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The only other polymer mags I've heard anything good about are the US Palm AK30. They get rave reviews, but at $30 each you can get 3 steel surplus mags.
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Re: AK-47 Issue

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Fyresq wrote:The only other polymer mags I've heard anything good about are the US Palm AK30. They get rave reviews,

From whom?

Most of the one's I've read, and my own experience with them, puts them in the "nice but way overpriced". Certainly nothing about them that's better than the Bulgy's (unless you need 3 US parts).
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Lysander wrote: From whom?
From most of the people I've talked to that have used them.
"nice but way overpriced".
I think that's what I said.
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Re: AK-47 Issue

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My mags are all steel surplus, for all the reasons mentioned here. I commonly pick up a couple of extras at each gun show, so I have a buch of 'em. My wife keeps asking me, "Don't you have enough of those?"

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Re: AK-47 Issue

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I have 20+ mags for now. I keep buying more, but I also have 2 AK's.
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Re: AK-47 Issue

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Hmmm, interesting conversation to read. I've run Tapco mags in my Draco for the past couple years and haven't had any trouble. Same experience with a friend of mine's Polish underfolder; no trouble. Luck of the draw maybe?

Out of curiosity I wonder what models of AKs people are having trouble with these mags in. I read somewhere that people sometimes have trouble with the Tapco mags in the WASR models due to the magazine well size being fudged up during assembly at Century. :?
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I've used both clear and black no-waffle foreign polymer mags (I think they were from Aim), as well as steel Korean surp mags, few misc steel E European surp mags.

All in converted Arsenal SGL21 with no issues, except the mag release being too tight-- I've had to file the metal on the mag lever, and some catch lip on the steel mags. The mag the gun came with was the tightest
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I installed a Wolff extra power recoil spring in my AK, and that seems to have solved my issue stripping off the first round in a fully loaded Tapco magazine. I took a couple different mags to the range, and they all functioned flawlessly now.
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Re: AK-47 Issue

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I use both milsurp and magpul both have been reliable...

I think the key is to make sure the mags are in good operating condition, also, so many combloc countries made mags that very few countries made them to where they were consistently manufactured to a standard which means there are slight variations in each mag...
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