Intersesting test. On a Tulla 1951 I found that I always had to shave down edges of the mag to make plastic mags fit the reciever. Because of that I never tried metal replacement SKS mags.
like i said rifle variation from year to year and from factory to factory. thats why most people who mod the mag experience issue with the mags cos the plastic is rather thin to begin with. please watch my range test vid
Thanks big time for this video. I have a Chinese Sks and recently bought the archangel LVX20 mag. I was super disappointed that it didn’t for the Chinese model. Especially since I was assured by retailer that it would. Well with 20 file strokes on back of mag it fits snug. Thanks so much! You saved my wallet and spared me some major headaches. 👍
The metal mags work ok. I have wittlled a few of the cheaper plastic ones to run smoothly but they are too much of a pain. I use 1 sks with stripper clips and an sks with 30 rd mags.
The problem I have with metal mags is failure to feed due to the feeding lips can easily be bent out of shape bcos they are too thin so if I ever dropped them or in this case arrived from the dealer bent. I'm SOL. I've tried bending them back but it got worst so I don't buy after market metal mags.
lol. i actually dont use duckbill , i did the vid for my viewers in the US (mostly). in canada we are retricted to only 5 rds in mags, even less reason to use duckbill but still popular.
File down the sharp edges on your Promag and Tapco mags. Locate the side of the duckbill and the sharp edges by the feeder and round those off with a file, and in like 30 sec they fit like a charm on the Chinese SKS.
Don't use them. It's faster to just load the built-in well; either with a strip or loose fed. It's also easier to carry strips or loose rounds than those ducky-thingys because they won't fit into a pouch.
Not to but in but just wanted to point out, i believe these are still meant to be used with stripper clips, you can just fit three in instead of one, and when you shoot ten you just simply top up the mag as you go. Technically you should be able to carry MUCH more ammo loaded up and ready to fire because you are dealing with a strip of steel that weighs grams instead of a full magazine. Thats how i rock anyways and i van carry more ammo ready to fire than my buddies shooting. 223 loaded into ar15 mags.
@gnutzguy I'm just asking because on mine if the bolt is open it will take the mags if not the mags do not fit so I'm trying to see if it's something going on with my gun
@@bigbub2118 no, yours normal and no issue with the wood. all mags, duckbill or AK mags require the bolt to be in the rear position before you can insert. SKS bolt has extra wide bottom. some people delete (by grinding) the extra width so they can insert without the bolt in the rear position.
@@deankidd1743 still, I thought they made to fit their own but I'm guessing different manufacturers made different sizes. Thank's for letting me know. I assumed they made the duckbill bigger so it wouldnt fit wood so you would had to buy their synthetic stocks.
is there any that are plug in play. I have the Chinese version and converted to the ark angel stock . I have the Archangel mag it doesn't fit very frustrating.
Having the bolt removed really is not going to tell you much even if it does fit you really need to get to see if the bolt will ride through the feed lips had this problem 2 weeks ago with KCI 75rd drum in Chinese /26\
@@gnutzguy truth but the bolt should be set to the rear before inserting. Problem occurs when you ride the bolt forward… will it jam up on the feed lips? Not saying you are wrong and I do see this video very informative and am leaning towards promag because of what you showed…. As far as bending goes I had my gunsmith file and polish the feedlips on my drum and testing this weekend. What I am trying to accomplish is getting the steel mags to work with the wood stock on a Chinese paratrooper….. I’m not sure how filing polymer would work and I do not want to replace my stock with an aftermarket
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Unless you have the now-defunct Texas Weapons SSR mag release on your gun, you may as well trash all BUT the "fancy" Archangel LVX mags. Only way to go, in my option. I had to make room on the stocks where the duckbill fits in. The stocks kept the duckbill from going forward enough. Both the original Norinko stock and an ATI Strikeforce stock, on Norinko SKSs. I also opened up the original non-matching number Chinese stock to flare like an AR mag well. These are straight-up Bubba's, lol.
Hello???? Poly stocks would be a different review. Btw I have several poly stocks but missing the fab one to begin a review. Those bloody thing cost almost as much as a rifle. 🤬
I did the bolt mod, some fitting etc , the mags all fit great. I have promag and tapco mags. The fitment is great but the bullets will not feed. They jam into the lower part of the receiver and do not get into the chamber.
LOL no dont Dremel the stock. dremel the damn magazine. I got 20 30 rd Mag's for my Norinco and had to Dremel them all. Just take little bit off at a time and keep trying them until it fit's perrfectly. Mine all do. I have a monty carlo stock.
Interesting. I have a yugo, but only have a promag, a handful of intrafuse and a couple archangels. Luckily they all fit decent,but i prefer the fit of the tapcos/archs most. Obviously they fit better with bolt locked back and now theyre broke in feed great. One thing i did find with the polys is on a couple i needed to sand/shave some plastic flash from the feed lips as it was causing bolt drag n not chambering but now sall good. I do with they offered a steel reinforced feedlip as ive found that they all show signs of the lips starting to crack however so far even the one thats missing a chunk still works fine and suprisingly doesnt drop rounds when you load n drop to shock it, but i dont know if thatll last.
I have a Chinese sks in excellent condition with a spike bayonet it has light colored wood what is cheapest best and best fitting clip/magazine would you recommend I don’t want to modify any thing on the gun and would like a metal one
Good video but in all honesty the rough machining on sks rifles makes mag fitting an individual rifle by rifle affair. Ive owned and fixed up plenty of them and every gun is different as are the mags. The sks i run now i have 6 baer 30 rd mags that are flawless but wont feed proper in my very first one ive had for 15 years. Gun by gun mag by mag if you want em running properly
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I think that it is the dealers choice with any SKS and factory mags even very from one print to another. You can get an off brand Dremel for really cheap these days, cheaper than a magazine even. Just saying.
🇦🇺😎👍 Hey mate back in the 1990s to the best of my knowledge ( I wasn’t interested back in the time ) , the only SKS released in Australia was the SKS 10 shot & the SKK. The SKK was the model sold with 3 /30 shot AK magazines upon sale from the gun dealers. Apparently they costed a little more than the SKS rifles. Mainly I think most people sore the rifles as more of a novelty as down here most people use scopes which the SKS’s didn’t have. Lots of people down here brought them for feral control in tight scrub or use at the military rifle club shoots. In 1996 a young man who was mentally handicapped somehow acquired the shooting skills of an elite SAS soldier and murdered about 35 people in Tasmania with an AR 15 .The government at the time locked him away forever without a proper trial and the result of all innocent lives being lost was the banning of all semiautomatic rifles. .Bit of a mystery that but down here we aren’t allowed to talk about that just in case it offends or scares anyone. . . Any how great video. Interesting information in history which Australians will probably never see again . Thank goodness for RU-vid yeh😉
in north american we have a different name for the SKK, we call it SKS-D . D stands for detachable mag (ak47 mag). thanks for sharing your aussy history.
I barely did any filing, it was mostly cleaning out congealed cosmoline and it went in no problem, original internal mag still fits snug. I think mines a pro mag. Not sure why everyone hates on them, you can still load cartridges from the top.