I had a Korean 40rd mag follower bend. The bolt hold open follower made it so the front of the follower ran into the front of the mag after firing the last round and it bent the shit out of it after maybe 10 times locking open. Replaced it with a follower from a broken Bulgarian ISD mag and it runs fine now.
Magazine fit and function is a rifle by rifle and magazine by magazine thing. My AKM variants are M70 parts kits builds. they run Croatian magazines fine. They run the KCI 20 round mags like scalded apes. The KCI 30 round magazines turn my rilfes into expensive bolt actions. i have heard similar stories about the Croatian mags as well. The name of the game is buy one or two of any kind of magazine and if it fits , functions and feeds in your rifle then buy more of them.
know now what Croation mags are. The Listed for sale unissued Croation mags currently are actually made in Bosnian and are the Mantra Mags previously sold only by GIBBS RIFLE
I just got some early Croatian mags and they look exactly like the Yugoslavian mags same deep spot welds wider grooves I'm willing to bet the early ones are Yugoslavian mags its not like they're going to throw away new mags just so they can make new ones
Tula1940....what did you say "difference" between Yugo M70 & M64 mags ?....did you say "bolt-hold open" ?....I thought all Yugo AK mags have "bolt-hold open". Appreciate your clarification.
M64, M70 and "Chugo" mags hold the bolt open. The M64 has a specific cut in it to work with a bolt hold open mechanism in couple specific Yugoslavian AK variants what will hold the bolt open even after the magazine is removed. All Yugoslavian magazines will hold all AKs open but bolt will drop as soon as the magazine is removed unless it's specifically a Yugo AK with a bolt catch using an M64 magazine.
They are. Before getting the Croatian magazine I thought perhaps they were made on ex Yugoslavian stamping dies but that is clearly not the case. They are made to be clones of Yugo military mags however the steel on the Croatian mags are a little thinner. There is a somewhat noticeable weight difference. You decide if weight or durability is more important.
@@Tula1940_LB Will do. Issue would be distinguishing unmarked Croatian from a Serbian. If they are made from the same tooling and both unmarked we'll never know. Then there's also Iraqi mags which are also supposed to be the same.
@@glautreu8431 interesting... I've never heard of or seen Iraqi two rib mags however Yugoslavia was the country that provided Iraq with the means of manufacturing the AKM so I can see why they would exist.
