Anybody tried these out that Rob Ski is pimping?

I picked up 5, they seem like good quality. One of them would not lock in and I had to file the rear lug a bit to get it to clear the paddle.

Guessing Ur Talking About These: Bulgarian AK47 30rd Steel Magazines!

From the Ad: Beautifully made, Bulgarian AK47 type magazines. This is new production, those aren’t surplus mags!

Newly Made Mags for the Commercial Market. I Have a Few I Got from Other Vendors. Some Say They Aren't as Thick as Surplus Mags and Usually Have a Plastic Follower & Base Retainer Plate.

To Me It's a Useable AK Mag.

Yes! Sorry for the lack of a link. I don't think these have any plastic I'll have to look.

Those are probably going to have the plastic pieces mentioned above. That said they're great mags but you probably could have saved a few bucks getting them from a different vendor.

There's also a version that has a 2 piece rear lug which I wouldn't want. Some of the really crappy Korean mags had the same design.

Mine didn't have plastic baseplate, I'll have to check followers but they're loaded currently. I saw they were cheaper at Atlantic I think after I bought them but honestly I'm happy to support AKOU.

Not the baseplate but the retainer for the baseplate. The little nub hanging out the bottom.

Oh, gotcha. I will check and report back.

Follower also is plastic. They seem pretty nice but have not tried mine out at the range yet.

These are the Bulgarian commercial steel magazines that have been discussed many times here and have proven to be great quality, near-replicas of the classic COMBLOC design. I believe at some point years ago, the word was that these were being built by a commercial company using original military tooling.

They have been available from GunMagWarehouse for years, on sale right now for $13.99 (they’re almost always on sale at GMW):

Bulgarian AK-47 7.62x39mm 30-Round Steel Magazine

I’d like to support AKOU, but that’s a considerable price difference when ordering multiple magazines.

I haven’t seen anyone actually measure to confirm the often-repeated statement that they are made of thinner steel than surplus military mags. In two previous threads, another user and I found that the stripped mag bodies weighed the same as sample surplus mags:

A comparison between current production bulgarian magazines and Combloc

Mags?

The total weight of the commercial mag is slightly less than a surplus mag because of the plastic follower and locking plate. I don’t have any issue with them having plastic followers. Bulgarian Circle 10s, the gold standard of polymer AK mags, also use plastic followers, as do GI AR mags, of course. The plastic locking plate in the bottom of the mag could be a minor weak point, but I think only in that it might get damaged while assembling or disassembling the magazine (like if you accidentally sheared off the locking nub somehow). During regular use, there’s not really any force on the locking plate that I could see damaging it.

I think these are a great, affordable option now that cheap surplus mags seem to have dried up.