[Evil_Walks]

Neat pic, I'd love to see a side by side shot of those mags in comparison to the Bulgarian waffles, Weiger, and Norinco mags.

I've got a pic around here somewhere from an old K-var Bulgie 5.56 kit that came with a similar slab-side Bulgarian mag but I haven't seen a single rifle on any of the gun boards with that mag or the Beryl mag that I recall.

 

[Evil_Walks]

What I was referring to was... I was just wondering if the bodies were manufactured by Arsenal of Bulgaria for K-Var (U.S. market) specifically, or if they are in fact current or past production/export option.

Forgive me if this is a sore spot for anyone here...
Remember when the Chief was taking orders for the various colored Bulgarian waffle mags? Very few made it in and there was quite a bit of controversy regarding their pre/post ban status. I would guess that some of these mag bodies might be NOS (new old stock), then again the plum factor seems directly geared for U.S. market demands. K-var probably knows but they tend to be a little slow replying to questions on their forum.

I am really curious how the Polish 5.56 mags differ from the other various countries 5.56 mags.

 

[Evil_Walks]

You read my mind! I think the 5.45 internals might be in the gray area of the law regarding manufacture of high capacity mags, obviously swapping from one black Bulgarian 5.56 mag body to another color body should be of no consequence as you still only have one identical high capacity mag. Robarms manages to get by by putting their followers in a 5.45 mag for the Veprs with the assumption that the mags still function in 5.45 rifles.

Yeah, c'mon September! All this legalese is too much to bear (and there just have to be some 40-45 round 5.56 waffles out there!), hopefully recent import trends just get better and better. I'm not much of an optimist though, I'm trying to snatch up what I can just in case stricter legislation comes to replace what we're already dealing with.

 

[Evil_Walks]

What about using the Bulgarian 5 rnd double stack mag (KVAR # M-74N5) as a source for the floor plate and follower? A cheap East German bakelite mag could be "rebuilt" by replacing all the parts around the spring perhaps?

Sounds like a winner to me! Maybe a little pricey, those 5 and 10 round mags aren't exactly cheap at $13-15. (then again the 5.56 waffles are going $30-35 when you can find them) Need to do some spring comparison...

 

[Evil_Walks]

Great posts here. (Nice pics too sniper69!) We all want to do the right thing, nobody here is looking to profit by constructing illegal "high-capacity" magazines. It's just the issue of various 5.56 AK's and their mags and availability that makes things tough. I compared the Bulgie 5.56 springs to the E.German and Bulgie 5.45 springs just as sniper69 did with the same results, his pictures turned out better than mine though. (I did shoot a pic of the 5.56 Norinco springs which seemed to be noticably different, they're still laying out if I can manage a better shot I'll go ahead and post it)

I've tried a couple of 'used' Robarms followers in the EG bakes with two 5.56 Norinco rifles with results that weren't much better than standard 5.45 mags. I tend to believe the mag profile more than the follower results in reliable feeding but I'm willing to keep playing along until either I find a good combo or laws change.

Guess the jury's still out on this but it is an interesting topic!