I just talked to you over on the AK forum. Beautiful AK! I love mine.
What grip did you put on yours? Mine is a Polish grip.

 

I just talked to you over on the AK forum. Beautiful AK! I love mine.
What grip did you put on yours? Mine is a Polish grip.
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Thanks man! You have the exact same one as mine too haha. Mines the Polish Bakelite grip they’re selling on AOA. Do you mind posting a picture of your mag well so I can compare it to mine when I get home?

 

This mag that I took a pic of is surplus Chinese and it fits pretty tight but it slides in easily. Some surplus mags fit looser than others. The Romanian mags fit the loosest.

 

Thanks for the pictures man. I’m going to cross reference these with my jack when I get home.

 

I've seen that with Romanians, I just took a file and relieved the sides of the mag well carefully, stopping to check progress every few file strokes. It didn't require much metal removal and it solved the problem entirely. Touched it up with cold blue when I was finished.

 

Those new mags hopefully gives you a better idea. Also, AoA should be able to help you figure it out as well.

 

They do. Thanks for you help man. I’ll keep y’all updated.

 

Poor quality manufacturing is a common theme on ak47 based weapons and magazines,

After filing, hammering, etc. one can develop a cadre of working mags for their personal weapon.

 

I don’t know. My mags that I mentioned fits my Maadi and my WBP Jack the same. Talk to AoA and see what they say about it.

 

I would avoid trimming the receiver and find mags that work. I have had the same experience with some AKs.

Korean made surplus mags have been the best fit in my experience - they fit all my AKs unlike other mags.

 

Yeah I wasn’t planning on touching the receiver. My thought process was that the rifle costs way more than the mags lol

 

Huh. My experience over many years has involved commercial production rifles, kit builds, and even a home made screw build on an ITM receiver. None of them had any issue whatsoever with any milspec magazine, whether metal surplus, plastic surplus, or commercial plastic.

 

All import AKs are brought in as Sporter rifles, single stack magwells, no pistol grip. They're cut by the importer/distributor/ manufacturer/ someone to the form that looks tactical and desirable.

You are lucky if your AK fits the mags.

 

What? The only AKM that I'm aware of to have come into the US with a neutered/non-original magwell was the original WASR 10 (with the "10" representing its 10 round single stack magazine), which was a "post ban" version cobbled together for legal importability into the US. This lead to US manufacturers producing AKM's in the US to avoid such importation restrictions. Then at a later date, the monkeys over at Century did a poor job of enlarging the magwells of their WASR 10 rifles in stock to accept standard AKM magazines, resulting in many of these rifles having very loose fitting magazines - because the Romanian receivers *did not have dimples to support the sides of the magazine when installed.

This lack of dimples can be seen in the Wikipedia WASR 10 image below:

 

Maybe take a few pics of the mag trying to fit in the magwell.

 

that’s as far as they’ll go in

 

I think AoA needs to look at it. Something is very weird with it. Take a few more pics of it from the bottom so we can see if it’s hitting anything.

 

Here’s some pictures from the underside

 

Take the top cover off and take out the bolt carrier and see what you see from the top as it’s trying to go in.
Take a few pics from the top

 

 

AOA got with me earlier. I replied but I haven’t heard anything for 3-4 hours. No big deal. It is Sunday. Hopefully they’ll reach out to me tomorrow. They need to look at it, something is definitely off.

 

Is this your first AK? Are you pushing the mag straight in?
I looks from the pictures that the front lip catch is not in the magwell.

The AK mag does not insert straight in like a pistol or AR. You can't push it straight in. It swings into position. First seat the front lip inside the magwell, then swing the rear into the mag catch.
The curved mag almost points forward when you start the action.

Best to watch some vids on AK reloads.

 

Nevermind what I said, I see the pictures better now on computer rather than on my phone.

 

@Gavinha3456 any word from AoA?

 

Yes, since then though I’ve managed to fit the mags into my jack. I filed them down a little and they work decent now.

 

Where did you file to get them to fit? Picture? I’m curious.

 

I filed the sides near the feed lips

 

Try other mags. There was a time I had to write the AK name, or use a color dot matching code, on each mag so that I could tell which mag fit what AK--- until the Korean mags (as I mentioned earlier).
It became very confusing, as I had over 30 AK mags and 7 AK's. The source of the mag was not a predictor of fit. For example, a few com-bloc European mags did not fit my Saiga or Vepr AK without a struggle, magpul was too tight for others, etc...

I like the Korean steel mags, and they fit all the AK's I have-- easily attach, cost less then most, and drop free.
I like the drop free feature.

 

Thanks for the info!

 

See in the vid what zastava has to do to the guns before sales here. You see why they are so expensive now?