 mindlogiczero 
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Posted: 5/7/2012 8:26:35 PM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT they look like any other surplus mag I have but the button of the floorplate on one says "china or made in china" im not by them atm and the pics i took earlier are hard to read, also has a button on the floor plate to push if you want to remove it. the other one was suppost to be a Chinese mag but it doesn't say china on the bottom of it or have same type of floor plate as the other, i cant even get it to fit in the gun. Ill take pictures of it when i get home from work, is there any way i can tell if its Chinese? and what to do if the seller wont respond? this is pictures of the one that is for sure chinese, 
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Posted: 5/7/2012 8:50:40 PM
some of the cheaper chinese flat back designs will not have the China stamp on the floor plate.....they tend to be a little cheaper made and sometimes have fitment issues.
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Posted: 5/7/2012 9:16:14 PM
Originally Posted By jriggs:
some of the cheaper chinese flat back designs will not have the China stamp on the floor plate.....they tend to be a little cheaper made and sometimes have fitment issues. Whats the best way to tell it is a Chinese mag? Ill try to take high quality pictures when i get home. I believe he should still do a partial refund even if it turns out to be a Chinese mag since it doesnt fit the gun he sold me. |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 9:56:10 PM
the two horizontal ribs on the bottom give it away along with the lack of any rear spine...it's a chinese flatback with a milled lug. you can also tell by the follower...the chinese followers are easily identified. but that is a Chinese milled lug flat back mag..current market value would be between $11-$15 dollars for one of those.
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Farmer-Ted
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Posted: 5/8/2012 12:42:51 AM
Most of the Chinese mags I've seen don't say "China" on the bottom.
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Posted: 5/8/2012 6:18:08 AM
[Last Edit: 5/8/2012 6:18:23 AM by mindlogiczero]
Asked for a partial refund for the mag or a Chinese mag to be sent to me.
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Rick_NE
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Posted: 5/8/2012 8:21:59 AM
Originally Posted By Farmer-Ted:
Most of the Chinese mags I've seen don't say "China" on the bottom. Agreed. A few had stickers on the floorplate, most of those were removed over the last 19 years. Very few were electro-pencil engraved with "made in China" and the importers name & location on the floorplate. |
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FlyLeaf
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Posted: 5/8/2012 4:38:08 PM
Same magazine.The made in china ones are older mags.They go for a bit more,function the same.
The ones AIM has are chinese mags,which are VERY good magazines imho. |
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Posted: 5/9/2012 3:21:27 PM
My 8 Chinese mags do not have any "Made in China" anywhere.
When I bought a set of 6 Hungarian 20 rounders, a few would initially refuse to lock just as your video showed. After swapping other mags in and out of the gun trying to figure out what was going on, the problem ones corrected themselves (maybe something bent to fit). My advice is to try to figure out what is causing the issue and grind something down if necessary. Personally, I think you'd be wasting a lot of effort trying to get a partial refund over a $10 magazine, but I understand your frustration. |
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Posted: 5/10/2012 11:22:44 PM
like others have mentioned
I have 12 chinese 30rd steel mags and none of them say made in china |
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Posted: 5/11/2012 10:45:39 AM
I have 12 Chinese .223 mags...none say China
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Posted: 5/11/2012 3:12:30 PM
I'm not an expert but Euro pattern mags have a "spine" or a "ridge" running along the back of the mag. Chinese pattern do not. That's how I tell them apart. Looking at the mag in the pic it sure looks Chinese to me.
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Posted: 5/11/2012 9:34:17 PM
I bought a "Korean" 75rd drum, it would do darn near the same thing. Compare the two magazines side by side, look at the front "hook"...portion that goes into the magwell first, directly below that there should be a notch running from side to side.... I had to make / file one for the Korean drum, it now locks in perfectly. Just a thought.
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Posted: 5/26/2012 8:14:26 AM
[Last Edit: 5/26/2012 8:55:26 AM by Dferg10]
Originally Posted By jriggs:
some of the cheaper chinese flat back designs will not have the China stamp on the floor plate.....they tend to be a little cheaper made and sometimes have fitment issues. Not true. There is no quality difference between the ones that say China and the ones that do not. I have many of both and they are all the same. |
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Posted: 5/27/2012 10:13:31 PM
I have plenty of Chinese mags purchased over the years, & the only one that says "China" is a 5 rounder. GARY N4KVE
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Posted: 5/28/2012 1:35:30 PM
[Last Edit: 5/28/2012 1:36:47 PM by Rayman1]
Folks, there seems to be some confusion here.
The "CHINA" stamp is often a commercial export thing. In this case, it was on the magazines that were commercially exported to the US. There were lots of Chinese magazines imported into the US for a long time several years ago. Not every single magazine's floorplate had a stamp but a great many did. Later, a large amount of exported military Chinese magazines were imported into the US a few years ago but the importers had to list them as other than Chinese to get them into the US through Customs. I believe they were listed as "Yugoslavian" although they were clearly of Chinese manufacture. These later magazines won't have the "CHINA" stamp on the floorplate as they were exported military magazines. So, sometimes you'll find them with the "CHINA" stamp or variations of it and sometimes you won't find it at all on the floorplate. Also, China did manufacture a steel magazine with the spine on the back. In fact, they manufactured two variations of it. One is called a "Sino-Soviet" magazine and can be found with the "66" in a triangle factory/arsenal stamp on the back. It looks just like a Russian/European 30rd steel magazine. The other magazine with the spine is called a "transitional" magazine as it has a spine but looks the same as the later typical Chinese magazines. |
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Posted: 6/4/2012 1:34:15 AM
Chugo mags aren't marked 'MIC'.
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Posted: 6/9/2012 3:27:53 AM
Stamped and non-stamped mags are of the same quality IMO. I have both.
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Posted: 6/24/2012 4:29:30 PM
I've got a bunch of Norinco 5.56 mags that don't say China but the 7.62x39 do say China.
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Posted: 7/9/2012 10:02:27 PM
I've had mags that don't fit before. Squeeze the side of the mag slightly with a vise this usally helps
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Posted: 7/10/2012 8:49:45 PM
Originally Posted By Rayman1:
Folks, there seems to be some confusion here. The "CHINA" stamp is often a commercial export thing. In this case, it was on the magazines that were commercially exported to the US. There were lots of Chinese magazines imported into the US for a long time several years ago. Not every single magazine's floorplate had a stamp but a great many did. Later, a large amount of exported military Chinese magazines were imported into the US a few years ago but the importers had to list them as other than Chinese to get them into the US through Customs. I believe they were listed as "Yugoslavian" although they were clearly of Chinese manufacture. These later magazines won't have the "CHINA" stamp on the floorplate as they were exported military magazines. So, sometimes you'll find them with the "CHINA" stamp or variations of it and sometimes you won't find it at all on the floorplate. Also, China did manufacture a steel magazine with the spine on the back. In fact, they manufactured two variations of it. One is called a "Sino-Soviet" magazine and can be found with the "66" in a triangle factory/arsenal stamp on the back. It looks just like a Russian/European 30rd steel magazine. The other magazine with the spine is called a "transitional" magazine as it has a spine but looks the same as the later typical Chinese magazines. I have 25 or so Chinese 30 mags I got in 1992/93 and none of them are stamped "China." |
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whiskerz
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Posted: 7/23/2012 1:51:08 PM
I have a few Chinese mags . All work great. Never heard of a problem with a Chinese mag. Only about 2 or 3 of mine are marked, most has a little gold sticker on the floorplate that said "made in China" it falls right off.
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