SKS Detachable mags

[Stainer]

Anyone have any experience with some good METAL detachable 30 round SKS mags? I have a Russian(even though I don't think it matters) and am exploring options. Your answer is NO, there is nothing wrong with my box magazine, just looking at other options. I see some from Pro Mag and Hitech online, just not sure how they are on quality.Thanks

 

[sakima]

Detachable Mags

Several years ago, I went down the same road with a Norinco SKS. I had two different manufacturers metal mags. I do not recall the maker of either...sorry, but I think one may have been promag. One mag I purchased and one mag was given to me because a friend could not get it to feed. Both mags required some feed lip adjustment to function half-way reliable. I never got 100 percent reliability so I went with the Chinese fixed 20 round mag. It worked great and I used it until I sold the SKS.

 

[gunman41mag]

Anyone have any experience with some good METAL detachable 30 round SKS mags? I have a Russian(even though I don't think it matters) and am exploring options. Your answer is NO, there is nothing wrong with my box magazine, just looking at other options. I see some from Pro Mag and Hitech online, just not sure how they are on quality.Thanks

I have two USA brand sks mags that work, I must have gotten the only two that work, I know that they sell some plastic MAGS

 

[jblomenberg16]

Most of the metal mags need some tweaking and tuning to run well. If you are set on using a duckbill style mag, the only one that I can vouch for that runs 100% are that Tapco 20 round polymer mags.



Just remember that after you take the original mag out of the rifle, and add the after market mag, you now have to abide by the 10 or less rule of 922r for C&R rifles.

 

[Stainer]

Most of the metal mags need some tweaking and tuning to run well. If you are set on using a duckbill style mag, the only one that I can vouch for that runs 100% are that Tapco 20 round polymer mags.



Just remember that after you take the original mag out of the rifle, and add the after market mag, you now have to abide by the 10 or less rule of 922r for C&R rifles.

Yeah Sorry forgot to put the made in the US part in about the mags. If they weren't it would push me over 10 and cause me to have to buy more parts which I don't really want to right now.

 

[gunman41mag]

Yeah Sorry forgot to put the made in the US part in about the mags. If they weren't it would push me over 10 and cause me to have to buy more parts which I don't really want to right now.

I've never heard of anybody being charged with breaking 922r laws

 

[Stainer]

I've never heard of anybody being charged with breaking 922r laws

Yeah but against the Feds, do you wanna be the first to get charged? It's not hard to be compliant, even if you want to keep the original stock, there are plenty of parts out there to swap that are made in the U.S.