The only reason PTR sent me a return authorization was because of Atlantic. All PTR did once they got the rifle was confirm what I had observed, of the 7 mags I sent w/the rifle, only the pmag and Bulgarian function correctly. They did nothing to correct the issue, they are just sending the rifle back.
What was the point of sending them the rifle? Makes no sense to me.
To be fair, they had a tragic event take place while in possession of my rifle and they may have been distracted. I'm being kind!
List of mags sent to PTR: Bulgarian slab side, shipped w/rifle
Pmag
Tapco ribbed
Korean steel gray
Russian steel black
Russian bakelite, all the above are 30rd mags
10rd Arsenal polymer
As mentioned, the pmag and Bulgarian worked, the tapco had to be forced to install and jambed rds. The rest would not install, the tabs would not go past the mag release. The arsenal mag had to be forced to install and beat on a fence post to release.
I believe the mag well and or mag release pivot point are out of spec. Atlantic is testing several of their mags to confirm function on their PTR32 Genll, then will ship to me. I will confirm function in my 32 Genll.
At least Atlantic understands the point of all this is to have these different 7.62x39 rifles function with "all" the different AK mags we have in our inventories.
Just like I told PTR, being stuck with 2 types of plastic mags is BS.