Thank you for this video. Magazine construction requires a lot of thought. The Soviets had a special focus on feed lips of self loading firearms. They even machined feed lips into the TT-33. They knew that a magazine is the weak link of a self loading rifle. Make it tough, make it durable.
I love seeing old ass machine tools still running and putting out good work. I used to run a lathe that was retrofitted for CNC, it was original run with the paper ribbons with holes punched in to program it. Despite its age it could hold half thou tolerances
One of the most strangely beautiful things I have seen. Men doing a job and doing it well. Producing a quality product from start to finish in a single factory. Knowing that there is honor in work, all work, no matter how hard or dirty or repetitive. I think I'm going to watch it again.
Agree, but the thing is they produce something that has one single purpose, which is to carry bullets, which also have only one purpose, which is to destroy things. All these man of great skill do, every dat when they go to work in this factory, is contribute to more and more destruction on the planet they live on. Destruction done by humans of course. It's kinda sad to watch actually, because they can use their skills for so many other things that are much more useful and benificial to mankind and the planet as a whole. It means it's basically also a waste of raw materials. The more I think about it, the more sad it gets....
@@sandervandenberg977 Sometimes you need to destroy to protect.Would you not kill a man that was about to rape/kill your wife?If you wouldn't i don't want to live in the same neighbourhood as you.Also i don't think you apply the same standarts to wildlife even though they do same things- hunt other beings for food,kill to protect the pack.Life eat's life That's the way thing's are.
@@sandervandenberg977 While I perfectly understand where you're going with this, the fact is that pacifism just doesn't work. Yes, guns and knifes kill people. But those Guns and knives at the end of the day are tools, and we can choose to use them to protect good/innocent people from the 'wolves'.
@@2312TOMAS Ofcourse I would kill or hurt someone who's about to hurt or kill, rape whatever one of nu familymembers. But you're missing the point here. The point is: Why make something that is designed to hurt or kill other living (human)beings? Why designing that in the first place? Wanting to hurt others comes from fear. It's fear that we have to overcome. Of course we need to be able to defend ourselves against "fear", but eventually it's better to battle fear itself. Then you won't need these horrible weapons anymore.
@@Commanderhurtz1 It all depends on how you see or perceive yourself and humanity. Pacifism is a very tough road, and requires saying the "right" things combined with the willingness to sacrifice and to stay NON-violent no matter what. It is however (I think) the answer to all of your "problems". There are many people though, that believe that humanity is inherently doomed to keep killing & hurting eachother, because that's in our nature, our genes or whatever. I don't think that's true. But if most people believe this, then THAT will become our common reality. Such is the power of (human) belief. So all I'm saying is: Be very careful with what you believe (in).
Just bought 3 of these for $12.97 each. Considering the amount of manual labor put into building these they are a bargain plus they have a lifetime guarantee. A real quality product.
@@freshcancer713 what are you talking about?? Wages in Bosnia are not significantly lower than surrounding countries. Whole Balkan has low wages, and Bosnia stands somewhere in the middle. You singling out Bosniaks makes me think that you have some personal problems with them...
Get that poor guy at 3:40 a chair or lift that machine up! Watching him hunched over like that and knowing he's doing that every day is killing my back! lol. Excellent video.
I work in gun factory my self , i love CNC machining and love to watch videos like this , great video , just one thing i didn’t see anybody using safety glasses , bye!🇺🇸🇲🇽
Someone should add an explanation of all the processes involved and the reason for them using the subtitles. Seeing it is one thing, but understanding it is another thing entirely.
Perhaps unrelated to the Matra I know, the one that makes radars, missiles and answering machines. But that was interesting to watch, and rassuring that there are still people who manufacture products like that.
That bend in the mag adds so many stages and pieces to the production. Complicated compared to a FNFAL M14 which from memory is 1 piece of sheet I think not sure been too long
croatian or ex yugoslavian mags are made with such good craftsmanship and they feel so awesome when they are new out of the box.. you cant go wrong with one of those!
That's a whole lot of parts, labor and processes and in Hollywood films guys just shoot up and chuck the empty mags like empty matchboxes. Part two should've been the title credit scene of "Lord of War". Nice video btw..👍🏽👍🏽
If they did this in the USA, it will be one operator and one big ass computerize machine. One large roll of metal sheet on one end and at the other end a completed 30 round magazine costing $75.
1 word. Ergonomics! LOL. Stop making your workers hunch over all day. give them chairs or raise the machines so they don't get back injuries over time.
I wish that these would have been good magazines. I bought six of them and though they all locked into my rifle, five of the six jammed my rifle every other round. So I sent them back for the warranty. I got the five bad ones replaced. Out of those five, four were bad and one worked. I tossed the bad ones into the trash and bought Polish surplus mags and a 40 round bakelite. Now my rifle functions perfectly. Apparently, I should have heeded all the bad reviews that these magazines have. No other magazine jams my VEPR AK.
I recognized every part, every spot weld...and even what looks like factory “pre-weathering” with the paint! ‘Tis a beautiful thing! I’ll take 50, please!
I purchased a few of the Gibbs-Matra mags and the quality control was non-existent. A large percentage of people couldn't get the mags to lock up in their rifles (including Wasrs, Saigas and npaps). Reaching out to Gibbs Rifle for warranty replacement and they said it was normal for new mags not to fit and they just needed to be filed. I've never had a new or surplus mag need filing to fit any of my rifles.
WOW, I always wanted to see how these mags were made, very impressive, so these are blued, like the Yugo mags? These really aren't that much more expensive than a good surplus mag, I've seen them between $17.50 and $18.95. When are the 20 round mags going to available, are they still going through testing?
Unfortunately for these guys, metal AK magazines are being replaced with polymer for armies that use the AK, or are looking to procure it for their army.
Next is to get the decoilers in and setup the presses for auto runs most of you dies look like they are built for auto feed. Good work. How would you like the machine making 12,000 to 20,000 parts in 8 hours.
What happened to Matra & the Gibbs AK magazine? The website does not even exist anymore. Did the company disolve or is there a current import ban from Bosnia?
@@comus3 OK, thx for update.. Do you know if the Croatian BHO mags currently being sold in the U.S., are comparable to these Gibbs mags? Some people say they may be made in the same factory.
Seems like an overly manual production process for something so simple. It is interesting to see the processes though. Who would have thunk spot welders are used so much throughout the process.
Old, heavy, practically indestructible machinery. Something I think we have lost in this Modern Age. I can't begin to count the parts that fail and have to be replaced in modern machinery, because they just weren't built robust enough. The spot welding brought back memories. I worked on an assembly line in a Fisher Body plant, Pontiac Motor Division in my youth. I spot welded rear deck lids into the bodies. A little bit of copper is lost on each weld and the copper tips erode and become useless very quickly. This means only the first round of welds are ideal. They slowly get worse and worse. I noticed every tip in this video was brand new! LOL! Only show the best! Don't let them see the ones that are close to rejection! Still, love the Hands-On.
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As a gun enthusiast, former machine shop worker, and person who is fascinated with how things are fabricated, I could watch stuff like this all day.
I want to know why no one ever told me jobs like existed
I just recently started learning how to do this.
Me too:-)
Ok then.
@@hitman_s1 Aight now.
Thank you for this video. Magazine construction requires a lot of thought.
The Soviets had a special focus on feed lips of self loading firearms. They even machined feed lips into the TT-33. They knew that a magazine is the weak link of a self loading rifle.
Make it tough, make it durable.
I've seen this several times and it never gets old. Simply amazing!!
Do you know what's that welding type heat treatment?
I love seeing old ass machine tools still running and putting out good work. I used to run a lathe that was retrofitted for CNC, it was original run with the paper ribbons with holes punched in to program it. Despite its age it could hold half thou tolerances
One of the most strangely beautiful things I have seen. Men doing a job and doing it well. Producing a quality product from start to finish in a single factory. Knowing that there is honor in work, all work, no matter how hard or dirty or repetitive.
I think I'm going to watch it again.
Agree, but the thing is they produce something that has one single purpose, which is to carry bullets, which also have only one purpose, which is to destroy things.
All these man of great skill do, every dat when they go to work in this factory, is contribute to more and more destruction on the planet they live on. Destruction done by humans of course.
It's kinda sad to watch actually, because they can use their skills for so many other things that are much more useful and benificial to mankind and the planet as a whole.
It means it's basically also a waste of raw materials. The more I think about it, the more sad it gets....
@@sandervandenberg977 Sometimes you need to destroy to protect.Would you not kill a man that was about to rape/kill your wife?If you wouldn't i don't want to live in the same neighbourhood as you.Also i don't think you apply the same standarts to wildlife even though they do same things- hunt other beings for food,kill to protect the pack.Life eat's life That's the way thing's are.
@@sandervandenberg977 While I perfectly understand where you're going with this, the fact is that pacifism just doesn't work. Yes, guns and knifes kill people. But those Guns and knives at the end of the day are tools, and we can choose to use them to protect good/innocent people from the 'wolves'.
@@2312TOMAS Ofcourse I would kill or hurt someone who's about to hurt or kill, rape whatever one of nu familymembers. But you're missing the point here.
The point is: Why make something that is designed to hurt or kill other living (human)beings?
Why designing that in the first place?
Wanting to hurt others comes from fear. It's fear that we have to overcome. Of course we need to be able to defend ourselves against "fear", but eventually it's better to battle fear itself. Then you won't need these horrible weapons anymore.
@@Commanderhurtz1 It all depends on how you see or perceive yourself and humanity.
Pacifism is a very tough road, and requires saying the "right" things combined with the willingness to sacrifice and to stay NON-violent no matter what.
It is however (I think) the answer to all of your "problems".
There are many people though, that believe that humanity is inherently doomed to keep killing & hurting eachother, because that's in our nature, our genes or whatever. I don't think that's true. But if most people believe this, then THAT will become our common reality.
Such is the power of (human) belief.
So all I'm saying is:
Be very careful with what you believe (in).
Just bought 3 of these for $12.97 each. Considering the amount of manual labor put into building these they are a bargain plus they have a lifetime guarantee. A real quality product.
Rich McIntyre this is because bosniaks are basicaly the mexicans of europe, their wages are ridiculisly low
Over 20 years ago I bought nice heavy gauge 40 Rd mags for 10 bucks.
Rugged as hell.
@@freshcancer713 what are you talking about??
Wages in Bosnia are not significantly lower than surrounding countries. Whole Balkan has low wages, and Bosnia stands somewhere in the middle. You singling out Bosniaks makes me think that you have some personal problems with them...
@@armija bosniaks are well known in europe for being labourers more so than their neighbours
@@elmoantero99 erm no...
Thank you Matra for a great video. It's great to see quality production with knowledgeable workers and traditional machinery.
Bogu hvala da jednom vidim naš program,s engleskim titlom,!! svaka čast onome ko je ovo snimio
Very simple machines. We have been trying for years to build a decent ak47 in the US and these guys can do it in an old rundown factory.
Those mags look so legit and very durable.
Get that poor guy at 3:40 a chair or lift that machine up! Watching him hunched over like that and knowing he's doing that every day is killing my back! lol.
Excellent video.
swansea007791 Holy cow! Awesome!
я тоже об этом подумал, такую дылду ставить на такую работу не следовало, или правда на стульчике бы сидел. на долго его не хватит.
Or hire quazimoto
Either sink the man, or raise the machine. No need for him to bend over like that. Unless he just wants to. Which I don’t imagine he would.
swansea007791 where is that video
Alot goes into making AK magazines. Also the most rugged and reliable magazines.
I work in gun factory my self , i love CNC machining and love to watch videos like this , great video , just one thing i didn’t see anybody using safety glasses , bye!🇺🇸🇲🇽
because it's not the US? That means no OSHA.
Wow if that was done here in the USA those mags would cost $75 each!
flgliderpilot fuck us
flgliderpilot in balkan u cane buy magazine for 10€
at least your country has the decency to make guns
Георгий Дюрич were 10 euro I will 20 euro for new ones 100% will buy 20 of them
No bro we already have US companies making them.i 4get the price
These mags are ten times better than any plastic crap they could make today.
Someone should add an explanation of all the processes involved and the reason for them using the subtitles. Seeing it is one thing, but understanding it is another thing entirely.
Perhaps unrelated to the Matra I know, the one that makes radars, missiles and answering machines. But that was interesting to watch, and rassuring that there are still people who manufacture products like that.
That bend in the mag adds so many stages and pieces to the production. Complicated compared to a FNFAL M14 which from memory is 1 piece of sheet I think not sure been too long
Bravo momci, jedva čekam da dođu vamo u SAD
Good work fellas , can't wait for them to arrive in the USA
Proud Bosnian American
Pozdrav, Bošnjak brat! Thank you Serbs and Bosniaks for all the great artillery you guys make!
croatian or ex yugoslavian mags are made with such good craftsmanship and they feel so awesome when they are new out of the box.. you cant go wrong with one of those!
That's a whole lot of parts, labor and processes and in Hollywood films guys just shoot up and chuck the empty mags like empty matchboxes.
Part two should've been the title credit scene of "Lord of War".
Nice video btw..👍🏽👍🏽
Wow very nice. My aks are now watching this video.
I bought six of these. IMO, these are the best new production steel mags out there. Beautiful fit and finish.
+civiliansheepdog3842 Where did you buy them?
Old Western Scrounger $12 each
Music can make anything beautiful. Also AK can make anything beautiful too
The finish on all those mags on the table at the end already look like surplus.
Gloves boys, were are your gloves? Metal sheet is very sharp... In Serbia similar situation in guns factory, so we have accidents.
Please show a drum ak and or .223/5.56 as well ! Thank you for posting the video and taking the time to do it !!! 06/16/19 Spokane WA !
That was an awesome video. I always find it amazing the amount of thought and work that goes into even the most mundane items. Bravo guys.
Can the one guy bent ver fishing out catches get a stool or something? Made my back and neck hurt just watching.
underground water drilling matchine
If they did this in the USA, it will be one operator and one big ass computerize machine. One large roll of metal sheet on one end and at the other end a completed 30 round magazine costing $75.
1 word. Ergonomics! LOL. Stop making your workers hunch over all day. give them chairs or raise the machines so they don't get back injuries over time.
Rob Tucker watch their follow up video Chairs
ma to samo za snimanje
Over in Europe there is no knowledge of ergonomics,
That's why 90% of Americans are fat and lazy
This is soviet Russia machine doesn't come to you. You come to machine
I like the music. I don't know why but its weirdly calming. Anyone know what it is?
the freedom to work well in their own shop
Very interesting video. Heard nothing but great stuff about these magazines. Wish they made them in 40 round capacity....
+Joey P they do make 40s
3:39 someone get that man a chair.
I wish that these would have been good magazines. I bought six of them and though they all locked into my rifle, five of the six jammed my rifle every other round. So I sent them back for the warranty. I got the five bad ones replaced. Out of those five, four were bad and one worked. I tossed the bad ones into the trash and bought Polish surplus mags and a 40 round bakelite. Now my rifle functions perfectly. Apparently, I should have heeded all the bad reviews that these magazines have. No other magazine jams my VEPR AK.
I recognized every part, every spot weld...and even what looks like factory “pre-weathering” with the paint!
‘Tis a beautiful thing! I’ll take 50, please!
I got four of their magazines, excellent quality.
I purchased a few of the Gibbs-Matra mags and the quality control was non-existent. A large percentage of people couldn't get the mags to lock up in their rifles (including Wasrs, Saigas and npaps). Reaching out to Gibbs Rifle for warranty replacement and they said it was normal for new mags not to fit and they just needed to be filed.
I've never had a new or surplus mag need filing to fit any of my rifles.
Awesome!
WOW, I always wanted to see how these mags were made, very impressive, so these are blued, like the Yugo mags? These really aren't that much more expensive than a good surplus mag, I've seen them between $17.50 and $18.95.
When are the 20 round mags going to available, are they still going through testing?
These are made on Yugoslavia tooling. Croatian and Serbian mags are basically identical.
These are made on Yugoslavia tooling. Croatian and Serbian mags are basically identical.
Never been a huge fan of the AK (only own one 47 and one 74), but I know who's magazines I'll be buying for sure.
Great video..
Wow very cool, a lot of work goes into producing these magazines
I'll take ten.
Germany : we've robots in every factory.
Russia : Never heard of em...
Simply a great video.... just know what they are making
I looked at my Bulgarian AK steel mag, saw all the spot welds, and wondered if they had a video of manufacturing it.
I am not disappointed.
I cut my 30 round mags down, and made 20 rounders out of them, for ease of carry and use.
All I want is steel 5.45x39 magazines, because I could only get my hands on 4 of them... :-(
I just ordered ten of these from AIM Surplus. At just over ten bucks for a well built steel BHO magazine, this may be the best value out there.
Not the same magazines as the ones in blue bags. We don't know where they came from but they are not Matra mags so says the importer.
Jarrod Knudson those are Croatian made mags.
Yea...wish they'd do a run of Valmet 76 magazines in 223 Remington (5.56mm Nato)
Innovation to create a magazine for one of the worlds most formidable weapons. AWESOME.
Damn! Ill never complain about paying $8 for a new mag again..even if its korean..
Anybody notice that they don't make the springs.
Thank you...some will think this is a thing of death...maybe ..but its also an thing of freedom..
Now you show me an American magazine done with such perfection ! Am American both this is beautifully done.
Very well made video thanks for taking the time to make and share. Interesting process.
Reminds me of the opening sequence to the Nicholas Cage movie "Lord of War".
Svaka cast momci...dali bi se mogla posjetiti fabrika?
Built to last a lifetime.
Absolutely fascinating. Always wanted to know how they are fabricated. Great video👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nice press break
Unfortunately for these guys, metal AK magazines are being replaced with polymer for armies that use the AK, or are looking to procure it for their army.
I would like to order a 25 shot mag for my Remington Model 8 in .35.
really cool video
Next is to get the decoilers in and setup the presses for auto runs most of you dies look like they are built for auto feed. Good work. How would you like the machine making 12,000 to 20,000 parts in 8 hours.
Amazing! Didn't knew these curvy sticks can be that beautiful, and the music very nice too!
Very cool video!!! Thank you posting this.
This is apocalypse magazine, made of stamp steel.
Nice safety glasses and hearing protection. Lol
What? :D Show me only ONE time in this video where you need glasses or headphones.
Lol :-D
What happened to Matra & the Gibbs AK magazine? The website does not even exist anymore. Did the company disolve or is there a current import ban from Bosnia?
motohead077 military contract demand is strong. Not exporting to US right now
@@comus3 OK, thx for update.. Do you know if the Croatian BHO mags currently being sold in the U.S., are comparable to these Gibbs mags? Some people say they may be made in the same factory.
now make some PSL mags and sell them for cheap pls
Awesome off-center spot-welding electrodes!
(I’m not crazy foe envisioning this kind of setup, then!)
How many steps in process from coiled steel to finished product? How many man hours on average per magazine?
Thumbs up for the vid!
Seems like an overly manual production process for something so simple. It is interesting to see the processes though. Who would have thunk spot welders are used so much throughout the process.
I would be very happy to see AK101/ Beryl pattern magazines come from you guys. Awesome video by the way!
Awesome video Broskies......
Thing of metallic beauty.
Why don’t y’all build some kerosene heaters so you don’t have to work with your jackets on? 😂😂😂
nice to see cold forge and hot forge being used on key stress point such as the front and back lugs.
Correction to the title:
Building the toughest rifle magazine ever, for the toughest rifle ever!
Sweet vid!! All my Gibbs Matra mags run fine in the M92. I'll be buying more soon
That machine gun will make a man rich beyond his wildest dreams.
Cool!
What is the music? Please!
Outstanding! just ordered a stack of these and can't wait to run'em.
That has to be the most expensive way to produce a firearms magazine. 😱
Military equipment made with lifetime guarantee, the only way. Only US military equipment has the mark "best before..."!
Old, heavy, practically indestructible machinery. Something I think we have lost in this Modern Age. I can't begin to count the parts that fail and have to be replaced in modern machinery, because they just weren't built robust enough. The spot welding brought back memories. I worked on an assembly line in a Fisher Body plant, Pontiac Motor Division in my youth. I spot welded rear deck lids into the bodies. A little bit of copper is lost on each weld and the copper tips erode and become useless very quickly. This means only the first round of welds are ideal. They slowly get worse and worse. I noticed every tip in this video was brand new! LOL! Only show the best! Don't let them see the ones that are close to rejection! Still, love the Hands-On.
no safety glasses or hardhat in sight.
None needed.
No gaurds in the machines. Won't someone think of the children?!?!?
Joseph SepulvedaIf. it was a joke, it was a good one.
Those safeties will not save you if you are stupid. If you are smart you will not need most of them.
They are Russians.
Amazing, are you all gonna produce more videos of other gun parts?
I went and bought one of these mags from a buddy and loved it, now i own 10.
Purple Nurp how much it cost u?
Bosnia made quality like Sweden, Germany, Japan
And better bro
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@LargeFarva Magazines are produced in Republic of Srpska, not Croatia.
I own so many dozens of ak mags in 7.62x39. Best gun ever designed.
*sighs with a smile*
Imagine inventing something which has caused over a billion deaths
How to get this job
Fantástico show
A great gun of a great Nation
дорогой и сложный в производстве получается магазин. Небольшими партиями. Куда и зачем это ?
thats Serbija, making of Magazin from M70 with open Bold. Nice
bosna i hercegovina ja mislim za metke
@@antoniovojvodic8374 sigurno je da je nase a ne tude. Niko nije izrasdivao kao Jugo sto je proizvodila nekada. Steta za tu zemlju
looks like this is not possible to be handcrafted like the receiver
Buena fabricación