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What kind of rifle does this mag fit?
texastradingpost
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It is larger than 7.62x39.
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Stay Alert! Stay Alive. Good luck out there.
John
My guess is .308 since it appears the magazine was adapted to a mag well designed for a longer cartridge i.e. the 7.62x54 in the Dragunev.
Just for reference for those that might think I have the dates confused, the single stack AK's were developed in 1998-1999 after the 1997 executive order that prevented the modified AK's from coming into the country. It was initially a temporary ban that started in fall of 1997 and became permanent in spring 1998. That executive order basically cut off the loopholes from the 1989 ban that had caused there to be thumbhole stock AK's in the first place. The 1997-1998 ban prevented the guns from coming in even if they didn't have: a pistol grip, regular or folding stock, no bayonet lug, no flash hider, etc. The models that had come in since 1990 had had all of those features removed, but still took a regular mag. Even though they came with just a 5rd, they would still take a high cap. The executive order and then later "ban" specifically said that if it is capable of accepting a high cap mag, then it can no longer come into the US even if it doesn't have the other offending features. It wasn't until after the importers figured out the single stack mag concept that they figured out they could put enough US parts into them to allow them to qualify as a US gun and take high cap mags again. That is what we have been seeing since about 1999.
John