Are they any good? I bought a 30 and a 20 rounder. Same price, $ 17.99. Do I buy more? I have cycled rounds, but not fired them. Too much $ to blast away, obviously.
I bought the only 30 they had and one of about 5 20’s. Should I get more? Thanks in advance for any info. I use a WASR10.
dog
REAL P-mags? Or the TAPCO mag? If they are REAL Pmags then I expect they are a steal at 17.99!
NO. Not a steal and not PMAGS. Find some like new eastern European steel mags(which unlike the Academy variety won’t have followers that tilt) online and then expect them to last longer than your gun.
With that said if 7.62x39 is too expensive for you to shoot a lot of they’ll probably be fine for low intensity range trips. I have one that somebody gave me and it now resides in the bottom of a trunk.
ETA: Where in Texas are you? If you’re close to Houston I’ll give you mine.
Sorry, fellows. They are Pro-Mag products. Why did I put P-Mag? Lack of sleep. New job after months out of work. Sorry. Anyone know? Good, bad, ugly?
thopkins, I live N. of Brownsville. A bit far away. Thanks so much for the offer though!!
dog
I used it for a while as a beater magazine…but the steel magazines are much easier to lock in the gun. The little lip at the front of the plastic magazine is rounded and makes reloads a much more difficult act. Plus I think it started to wear exacerbating the whole deal.
The steel mags are just about indestructible and make running the gun much easier.
Upside of the plastic AK mags? The only one I can think of is weight. The steel mags are heavy.
If it says “Pro-Mag” you know it’s Crap.
AK steel mags are the better choice. Plus, they can be used as a hammer, tomahawk, club, or wheelchocks when you run out of ammo. 
I think the Steel AK mags are almost as strong as a P-mag is for the AR. All I know is, They are built like they were designed to be used as a last-ditch weapon 
If you want the best in polymer AK magazines, get the Arsenal magazines from K-VAR.
http://www.K-VAR.com
You should edit your title to reflect this, then.
Done. I only have a few steel mags, of unknown origin. They work well. However, any mags are hard to get lately. Just wondered if the price was ok, but if they are junk, then even free wouldn’t be justified I guess. Thanks for the replies!
dog
First the sound effects were annoying.
Second, almost every mag that failed was a result of not using metal in the locking lugs. Given the length of the 7.62x39mm magazine, there was alot of momentum in the magazine as the rifle impacted the metal plate.
I would love to see this type of demonstration in the following rifles that use a plastic rock in magazine without metal locking lugs.
-M14
-FAL
-SIG550
-Mini 14
-saiga 308
-any others I’ve missed.
I predict 2 things would happen.
Horizontal drop tests on the 308 and 223 rifles would not have a profound effect as it did on the 7.62x39mm magazine because the 7.62x39mm mags are curved and falling at an angle, putting massive leverage on the rear lug.
Vertical tests may have almost no effect on the 308’s because of a short and straight mag body, and less of an effect on 30rd 5.56mm mags due to less weight (in comparison to a loaded 7.62x39mm mag) and also having a shorter, straighter mag body.
I’m not trying to say that some rifle mags don’t need metal lugs, I’m just saying that given the information available, test results can greatly differ from platform to platform.
Well, that was certainly worth watching. Anyone have an AK I can borrow to do drop tests with?
Thanks for posting that. Now if only I could afford some more steel mags! Gunshow today, but I am sick. Boohoo!
Thanks for the answers!
dog
True, but we’re talking about AK mags
Disregard. Dead Horse.