Come on, guys. The Mutant is an awesome gun. Probably my favorite right now. I actually have two of them, believe it or not. My first one had some issues that CMMG took care of, and thanks to their amazing customer service (thanks Justin!) I bought a second one.


Anyway, this forum is dead most of the time so let's liven it up a bit! Here are a couple quick vids of my mutant in action. I plan to make more for sure! I actually didn't know these were being filmed, so excuse the casual nature of the vids.


Everyone else feel free to join in. I can't be the only one that loves this rifle?




Notice how little the muzzle moves even with the double tap. That brake works well.





Nothing special here, other than some great accuracy for 7.62x39. Using an aimpoint pro, no magnification. 6 inch plate at 220 yards.

Keep going back and forth between this and the LAR-47.  Sell me on it, bro.  Can you put standard AR15 rails on this, or do they need to be AR10?  And if AR10, what height?  DPMS high? DPMS low?

Its superior because the BCG is beefed up. It virtually eliminates the Achilles heel of other AR15 rifles that take the 7.62x39 round.

Some argue that the BCG is a fail because it requires a proprietary length charging handle. That's a fair point but my Badger GenII latch has been great. So no complaints.

It does take DPMS High-pattern AR10 rails. Midwest industries has got you covered there. You can check out my Mutant below:

I am really leaning toward one of these over an AK.............how reliable is it with steel AK mags?

I can't comment on that. All research I've done has been favorable in that other than some 20-round Bulgarian steel mags and the odd Tapco, they run fine.

We only have th  Magpul ones here in Canada. So far there have been zero issues with the mags other than the odd mag lock. That can happen to any AK mag.

I ant one but I need more reviews. And how do they do with steel mags

In as far as the steel mags go, literally the only ones that I have that won't run in the gun are those shiny blued Yugo-pattern BHO mags. The rear locking tab sits too low, and pushes the back of the magazine too far up into the receiver. Not quite high enough to cause a double feed, but high enough that it wouldn't fire more than 3 rounds in a string without jamming.

Every other Euro pattern mag I've used in it has worked great. Bought a set of 10 painted Polish(?) mags from AIM not that long ago; 8 locked up and fed fine, one had too much paint on the top and had to be sanded to fit (there was actually so much paint it wouldn't fit in my AK, either!), and one had a ding on the inside of the mag that kept it from holding more than about 26-27 rounds, but it still fed all those fine.

So I'd say, in my experience it's good to go with anything other than the Yugo BHOs, which isn't really an issue because you don't usually run across those too often.

I will also say that literally the only magazine I've experienced mag lock with is the 30-round Magpul that comes with it; neither the Magpul 10-rounder I have nor any of the steel mags shows the same issue. I don't know if that's just something with the geometry of the Magpul's front lug or what.

I will say if I was putting mine together again I'd skip the Aimpoint and go right up to one of those TA33-C ACOGs with the green horseshoe & 7.62x39mm reticule, because this rifle is crazy accurate.

Oh well, maybe someday when I have more disposable income.

Amazing round count before it failed doing a meltdown test with select fire lower. Only had a gas tube failure.
IV8888 video

Yep

I'm torn between the mutant and the PTR32.

I know two completely different animals but I'm looking for a durable NON AK47 platform for all my ammo and mags.