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Title: What is this magazine?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 15, 2014, 01:48:33 PM: Buddy found it on a construction site loaded with 5.45 ammo.

The AK mags all seem to have a bump on the front and a hook on the back. Also, the follower sticks up in back on this one, the feed lips don't go all the way back.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/KWLsOukciR-S-fyei1qTYs5SFwgu_AR0vRVxj51epzg=w123-h162-p-no)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/CGxyVY1Qy0JdxjGGdUkFHBG4F6ROnJPmn6iaF9oEMow=w228-h162-p-no)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N0We9yKCjBgJM759tM5GOPlW-CMcm_or7r-vVu3U33I=w142-h162-p-no)
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: Pb on July 15, 2014, 02:12:02 PM: mini 14?????
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 15, 2014, 02:18:03 PM: Quote from: BTR on July 15, 2014, 02:12:02 PM
mini 14?????

That would be a bit ironic. Picking a Mini up probably today.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: 41magsnub on July 15, 2014, 02:18:23 PM: wierd - I have no idea. There aren't that many rifle types using 5.45 ammo. Maybe some crazy attempt to convert a mini-14 mag to an AR 5.45 magazine (probably failed and abandoned)?

Did some google image search and that is a mini-14 magazine (unless it is a mini-30 magazine?).
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: Nick1911 on July 15, 2014, 02:20:56 PM: I have what I'm pretty sure is one of these as well. Friend gave it to me, he thought it was an AR mag maybe? It isn't.

I still have no clue what it goes to.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 15, 2014, 02:21:50 PM: Just did a GIS myself. I saw the ammo and assumed AK-variant. I'll have to compare it to the Mini mags coming in (today probably) and see if it is 5.56 dims.

Thanks BTR.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: dogmush on July 15, 2014, 02:29:44 PM: That is a definatly Mini-14 mag.

Also, the mags are in the other box. Sorry.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: lee n. field on July 15, 2014, 02:49:42 PM: everybody said it. Mini-14. I'm guessing a crap magazine, turd* out in a hurry to be grandfathered in, in the last few days before the national 10 round limit went into effect.

*an appropriate misspelling that I'll let stand. I had a few of these. Far better at the time to pick up some Promag 10 rounders. They at least worked.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: MechAg94 on July 15, 2014, 03:52:45 PM: Where was this "construction site loaded with 5.45 ammo"? Can I stop by with my truck? I would be happy to dispose of it for them. I still have the Slide Fire stock on my 5.45 AR.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 15, 2014, 09:17:53 PM: Quote from: dogmush on July 15, 2014, 02:29:44 PM
That is a definatly Mini-14 mag.

Also, the mags are in the other box. Sorry.

No worries, apparently I have one. ;)

Just picked up the rifle a half-hour ago. Looks great.
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 15, 2014, 09:18:51 PM: Quote from: MechAg94 on July 15, 2014, 03:52:45 PM
Where was this "construction site loaded with 5.45 ammo"? Can I stop by with my truck? I would be happy to dispose of it for them. I still have the Slide Fire stock on my 5.45 AR.

Another example of why the comma is the most important punctuation. ;)
Title: Re: What is this magazine?
Post by: French G. on July 16, 2014, 05:37:58 AM: Possible some idiot didn't get the difference between 5.45 and 5.56. I know supposed gun people who have never heard of 5.45. I've asked to see 5.45 AKs in gun stores and been told like I was a mildly retarded child that AKs are made in 7.62x39. :facepalm: :facepalm: Maybe that's why the mag was there, ammo no worky as planned so someone tossed the mag in disgust.