While still waiting for Global to ship my receiver to my FFL, I have been reading all of the posts here at GUNCO. I just finished the one about the SAIGA conversions' which was really informative. Being new to AK style rifles, I compared my (hopefully) soon to be assembled AMD-63 with the SAIGA conversion procedure just to familiarize myself with the parts and process. One thing got my interest. The SAIGA conversion said that a bullet guide must be installed to allow the conversion to double stack mags. When I looked at the SAIGA photos and compared them to my AMD-63, they looked the same. I have a large rivet that is installed in the trunion and is flush with the top of the trunion where the barrel breech is. So my question is: Does the AMD-63 trunion have a built in bullet guide or am I missing one from my kit?
I did feed several rounds by hand out of a mag and they went into the breech easily.
I did feed several rounds by hand out of a mag and they went into the breech easily.