Nice, it's heavy! Always great to have a makeshift hammer with your AK. OR if you run out of ammo, you can throw it at your target and knock them out. Still I think your a tad wrong on the maximizing spending per mag. Just gotta find a batch of surplus steel Romanian or Polish AK mags, that might be a tad rusty and beat up, WD40 and some steel wool clean them up nice. I got a pack of 50 poor condition surplus Romanian AK mags a long while ago (all really beat up, REALLY BAD & covered in cosmoline), for sub 200, I cleaned them up and sold a lot of them to my friends and made back what I put into it and extra. The seller did mess up a little and accidentally included a Russian Tula mag (It was very rusty, and wouldn't have been able to be noticed unless it was cleaned up for like 5 minutes, like how I did it), big score on that, never would've went out of my way to get one since people want 60 bucks+ for them. That said, the best 7.62x39 AK mags in my opinion are the Chinese flat back mags, always work in every AK I put them in. I have tons of them from my friends finding them at pawn shops, garage sales, or gun shows, and thinking of me since I collect old Chinese AKs and getting me every single one of them. I don't know if it is a complement anymore, since they will come together at Christmas and put all of them they have found into a 5 gallon bucket all mixed full of empty steel case 762x39 and give it to me for me to search through to find the mags (Some years there's like one mag in the entire 5 gallon bucket, and once it was a 5 round mag) (Mags are wrapped in bubble wrap too, don't worry about scratches). They even found a 40 rounder flat back Chinese mag one year which surprised me since I never seen one before, sometimes some Sino-Soviet mags, a Chinese Transitional mag, and some rare Chinese "all stamp" magazines. A very small few of the rear catches of the flat backs also be a stamped piece of metal that's welded on, seems to be even rarer, and I only found 2 in my entire collection, but they seem to be extremely rare(?), don't see many online. I have a few 20 round Type 63 mags as well, including a Bakelite Type 63 mag. The Type 63 mags go for as much as a full AKS762 depending on the variant. Literally worth it's weight in gold. I have one with a star that regularly goes for 1500+ that I found at a gun show and bought with 2 other Type 63 mags for around 120 beans all together, old guy probably didn't know their worth since they were marked as unlabeled Chinese mags, and probably thought he was robbing me 😅. It does kind of hurts to be known as "that one guy with those weird China AKs" and everyone's like "Hehehehe, here dig through this bucket of casings and find a treasure".
Nice, it's heavy! Always great to have a makeshift hammer with your AK. OR if you run out of ammo, you can throw it at your target and knock them out.
Still I think your a tad wrong on the maximizing spending per mag. Just gotta find a batch of surplus steel Romanian or Polish AK mags, that might be a tad rusty and beat up, WD40 and some steel wool clean them up nice.
I got a pack of 50 poor condition surplus Romanian AK mags a long while ago (all really beat up, REALLY BAD & covered in cosmoline), for sub 200, I cleaned them up and sold a lot of them to my friends and made back what I put into it and extra. The seller did mess up a little and accidentally included a Russian Tula mag (It was very rusty, and wouldn't have been able to be noticed unless it was cleaned up for like 5 minutes, like how I did it), big score on that, never would've went out of my way to get one since people want 60 bucks+ for them.
That said, the best 7.62x39 AK mags in my opinion are the Chinese flat back mags, always work in every AK I put them in. I have tons of them from my friends finding them at pawn shops, garage sales, or gun shows, and thinking of me since I collect old Chinese AKs and getting me every single one of them.
I don't know if it is a complement anymore, since they will come together at Christmas and put all of them they have found into a 5 gallon bucket all mixed full of empty steel case 762x39 and give it to me for me to search through to find the mags (Some years there's like one mag in the entire 5 gallon bucket, and once it was a 5 round mag) (Mags are wrapped in bubble wrap too, don't worry about scratches). They even found a 40 rounder flat back Chinese mag one year which surprised me since I never seen one before, sometimes some Sino-Soviet mags, a Chinese Transitional mag, and some rare Chinese "all stamp" magazines. A very small few of the rear catches of the flat backs also be a stamped piece of metal that's welded on, seems to be even rarer, and I only found 2 in my entire collection, but they seem to be extremely rare(?), don't see many online. I have a few 20 round Type 63 mags as well, including a Bakelite Type 63 mag. The Type 63 mags go for as much as a full AKS762 depending on the variant. Literally worth it's weight in gold. I have one with a star that regularly goes for 1500+ that I found at a gun show and bought with 2 other Type 63 mags for around 120 beans all together, old guy probably didn't know their worth since they were marked as unlabeled Chinese mags, and probably thought he was robbing me 😅.
It does kind of hurts to be known as "that one guy with those weird China AKs" and everyone's like "Hehehehe, here dig through this bucket of casings and find a treasure".