AK Mag Collection Overview & Favorites 

Something Misha may be more suited for as he has a bigger variety than I do. I typically just buy what's available and I know works regardless of if it matches country of origin on one of my rifles. Misha makes sure to get matching mags for his AKs and is pretty knowledgeable about the differences.

I’d like to see that to.

Agreed, like collecting ak mags. What's crazy is the bakelite 74 mags used to be like under 3 bucks because NO ONE wanted orange mags. You could buy 4 black ones with a pouch for like 25, 30 bucks. They're probably crazy expensive now. Edit, yeah, east german bakelites $50 or more. They were like literally dirt at one point. Wish I had bought a truck of them.

The AK and everything about the AK is more interesting than AR’s lol

Because they undercut OEM and Mecgar pricing.

I’ve only used a promag once and it locked up my slide on my Colt 1911 to the point where I had to bang it out with a rubber mallet to release it. Never again

Their archangel stuff for .22’s is Good stuff.. But I agreed on the mags

I.O. funded them for awhile as they put PMs with all their AK variants.

Misha Oh Jesus that’s never good if IO funds you for anything having to do with the ak’s 🤣

For all the shit that ppl give Tapco, I’ve used the 7.62 and 5.45 slabs and never once had an issue

@@n.speezly1467 Same here. First polymer mag I ever bought for my WASR 10/63 was a Tapco Intrafuse mag....I still have it, and never once has it ever failed me. For a long time it was the only polymer mag I had before I bought a new Circle 10 for about $40 at a gun show (those were the days, lol). Same with the one ProMag that I have.....I can't speak to anyone else's experience, but mine has been good with the limited use I've had with it.

Yep..those Bulgarian mags you mentioned are awesome.

Are you in the market to sell one or 2? Haha😂. Man I can't find them to save my life!!

@@Godisinkontrol russian surplus dot net website had some recently. They're pricey and they have a couple different versions from some factories.

Where did u find them sir

@@lynbertjohnson1948 gun show

@Sean Donovan wish I would've bought more when I realized it was that good of a price

@Sean Donovan Yes, they're made of steel.

Forgotten Weapons has a video you should find informative.

Also the subreddit has a great wiki

I have Yugos (mentioned in the video as other bolt hold open mags). Also mentioned in the video, I don't have any Asian AK mags.

I have the croation ( yugo ) BHO mags. They have to be modified to fit in stamped receivers, but after a small adjustment they run great. Replaced all my followers with BHO in all my AK mags.

I have 4 Chinese flat back mags I got 15 years ago. Are those supposed to good or are they junk?

@@markwhite6782 never had issues with them myself. As long as they're not damaged in a way that would cause feeding issues.

@@markwhite6782 their crap, I'll take those off your hands. Just because I'm a good guy.😏

Thanks!

I can't get anything to fit my 107 except those cheap clear Radom mags he showed. The actual trigger snapped off too. So far not very impressed considering the pretty penny I paid...

@@spoonman73 Holy shit, the trigger made your trigger snap off

It’s an ak what do you expect lol. They are not built to a standard like an aye area milspec. You could get 2 identical Aks that will be different and work with different mags or need some brand mags modified to fit one where the same mag will fit the other ak just fine

Thanks!

I’ve been into the AK game for twenty years on now. I acquired all my Bulgarian “waffle” mags back when three different vendors were importing them and they were going for the paltry sum of $8.99 each. Yes you read that correctly. Also they were imported in five different colors iirc. Anyway they were made tight fitting so they could fit into a large array of rifles from various nations and manufacturers. Always use sand paper and slowly and lightly sand away the excess material and NEVER mill out an imported rifles mag well just to “fit” a particular mag. As for Eastern bloc steel mags the project manger at Magpul stated on a forum that while they were R&Ding their AK mags they tested and destroyed every mag known and concluded that the Polish steel mags were the most robust and reliable out of all the other Eastern bloc nations. Russian steel mags will only go up in value so I leave the ones I have in a safe. The Russian “Bakelite” mags are not made from Bakelite at all and are in fact constructed out of AG-4 phenolic resin. Actual Bakelite material is constructed from polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, say that one fast three times.

They are almost double that price now.

@@TheRetiredVeteran yeah I saw they got stupid greedy and jacked their prices way up. They can keep them for that price. I’d rather buy a genuine Bulgarian or the new palmetto state mags for like $20-25 that are polymer with steel lugs and feed lips. They are supposedly very nice mags.

@@cfltitan What are the "palmetto state mags?"

@@TheRetiredVeteran Palmetto state armory is making their own AK mags now. They’re pretty nice mags too and very affordable.

from the back here this guy comes.

I think the issue was mainly breaking locking lugs when the rifle was balanced on the mag, or dropped on the mag while in the rifle. Like I said in the video though, I've never had issues with them but would prefer reinforcements on my go-tos.

I love the Pmags even the cheap ones. AregularGuy made a huge stink about the plastic locking lugs but I think they are very durable unless you are puposefully slamming your gun against the ground to break them. Most other polymer ones are too brittle. I suspect that America has superior polymers compared to other countries.

I've had one loaded for about a year now with no issues, but I haven't actually fired one much. I forgot about that one for this video and am only just now remembering I have it.

Are you sure they are surplus (military issue)? I think the Korean mags are commercial made.

The Korean ones I have owned double feed bullets and cause problems. I have some old metal Chinese ones. Some polymer ones and I prefer the Chinese

No they’re not surplus. I just mentioned the Korean mags bc they’re cheap and those are the ones I always use to shoot simply bc they’re cheap. I’ve never had feeding issues with them, although people have complained about having that issue. It’s not to say it won’t eventually happen bc the springs aren’t stiff in them, hence the feeding issues that occurs for some people. I use my Korean mags to shoot bc I’m not going to use my good mags. My favorite mags by far, are the Bulgarian steel and polymer mags. I have more Bulgarian steel and polymer mags than anything. My 2nd favorite mag is the zastava polymers. I love the zastava polymers bc they’re very thick polymer mags, has ribbed sidewalls, steel reinforced, except for the feed lips. If the feed lips were reinforced, then they would be a tie with the Bulgarian polymers bc the zastava polymers definitely are the best looking polymer mags of any polymer mag imo. They’re a little more expensive than Bulgarians, but well worth the money. I’m just not a fan of BHO mags though. With said, I really like my ac unity mags as well. But all my good mags I keep stored away to keep them new, so I run the cheap Koreans just to shoot and have fun

Finnish variants are interesting too.

Misha yes indeed they sure are ... I am still searching for a few of them to add to my collection, hopefully one day, for the right price .. lol 😊

Tried messaging you but your page didn't have a contact link. I have some very interesting info I wanted to share and hear from you also to compare notes about "The Chief". Hope that you can Comment back when you see this man, I'll see that, and can go from there.

You probably answered your question, just do surplus steel. Basically the most reliable anyway.

I have a few of the magpul ak mags and they just work.

I seriously wonder what happens inside the promag factory

Arsenal will do the service. www.arsenalinc.com/usa/sam7k-conversion-service.html As for brace, easy enough to do at home

It’ll take any double stacked ak mag, but from my experience they sometimes have fitment issues. I’ve had to file a few mags to get them to fit

Thanks.I got a bunch of mags ordered. Rusty surplus lol .

Try a fully loaded 5 cell pouch of them from the 1950s. I sware that thing weighhs as much as the rifle itself.

Tula, Tapco, and CAI work well in mine.

Pretty cool

Do they hold up fr? I want a drum but heard SK isn’t good...

they work great in my m70ab2T but can't lock in my maadi or arsenals . but still a great mag well built .

@@tonydavidson3660 how do you like the Maadi? I've heard everything from "Top of the line" to "way over hyped", but never even seen one in real life.

@@rat.bastard.reviews2485 mine came in the same time the mak 90s hit .they made them on the org machines by russians later anwar sadat kicked them out shut down the plant then reopened and made the misr rifles they came out as junk . mine has 3000 rds for sure never had a jam once paid 329.99 for in the 80s . just got a legiun saiga 12 all the work has been done on it grip moved back to org position chaos rail . thanks for sharing . snapped a pic of the gas chart you showed . thanks and stay safe !!!!

@@tonydavidson3660 All true, and also where do you think Poland, Romania, Hungary, and others got their tooling from? Most of it was all from Russia. Egypt was just smart with their marketing and advertised the fact more. They even shipped them originally with certificates lol.

Those Croatian mags fit perfectly in my NPAP and my AES10B, but they refused to lock in my SAM7R and my Romy G kit built on an old 1.0mm ArmoryUSA receiver. Some filing on the rear locking lug has them working now.

Ima might have them! Ima-USA is the website

@@Pandrnchicken nope it's ganna have to be a guy that has a few extra these days TBH .. I've been on the sites. ... Out

Jeremiah Cherry i bought 5 of the same brand, thinking the same thing, and it did not. I also saw a youtube vid where he had problems locating mags, that would work without modification. Im not to worried about modding the mags, but id rather avoid that

Polish/Romanian (as said above) have the best shot of working with tight magwells/catches. They're usually thin enough to work in everything. If THOSE don't work, you may have to take some material off of your mag catch. Depends on the fitment issue you're having (i.e. if it's front to back or side to side).

Jay from Mishaco the fitment issue is in the front. I have swapped the other mags to a rifle that handled them. I will look into some of you fellas suggestions! Thank you

@@jaysblades Both of myy Lynx's took WBP poly mags just fine. Just realise that when brand-new, most poly mags are oversized, so fit very tight, but they wear in quickly. Don't be afraid to use some elbow grease when it comes to AK stuffs.

Yeah that's why I snagged a couple even though they were beat to hell

There are several types of mag with the cirlce11 marking. Some were even made by FB back in the late '90s for use in their final run of AKMSs. After 2000 though, the marking has bounced between makers, including PAC.