You can find Magpul 40-round magazines for pretty cheap and they seem to be more reliable than the 30-round counterparts.If that's a Glock 42, you only have 6 rounds, too. Better to have something in a 9mm with 15 in the magazine and one in the pipe. Or even better than that, one of those "evil" black AR-15's with a 30-round magazine.
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I'm more of an AK guy, not an AR. I like the AR but I bought a new AK right before the 2016 election. It has Magpul furniture on it and I have a shitload of 30-round Magpul and Tapco magazines. But the only mags I leave loaded all the time are the steel ones. The composite magazines tend to bend a little at the lips if they're left loaded for a couple years, and can cause feeding problems. But I like them because they're lighter than the steel ones.
I have a Korean 75-round drum for the AK, but that thing is very heavy when loaded and wound up. You can bumpfire that AK from the hip and unload the drum mag in a matter of seconds, but can't hit anything that way. Surprisingly, I can get 4" groups at 100 yards with open sights and from a sandbagged rest. It's not a tack driver like the AR, but it does what Kalashnikov designed it to do: Hit a man-sized target at 100 meters.
I own one of the very first AK's ever imported into the USA. It's a Maadi AKM imported by Steyr. If I use Remington factory it will shoot 1.75 MOA. With handloads I can get that down to 1.
The rifles are much more accurate than the crap ammo that was made for them.
Sweet! Those were made in Egypt and are preban. They're pretty rare and only something like 2000 of them were imported. The Steyr Maadis are bringing up to $3,000 on Gunbroker these days.
Nice investment piece, you probably didn't give anything near that for it.
I paid about 300 for it IIRC. It is as close to a original Russian AK-47 as you can get.
Gawd, I'd love to go back to the days when you could get an AK for $300. Mine's made in Texas with a US-made receiver and barrel, and a Hungarian bolt. I paid $850 for it new in 2015.
We can talk about cheap SKS and cheap AKs but I have a M-16. It was $290 when I bought it in 1979. I then had to pay that stupid $200 NFA tax. It is worth $30K now.
Yup. Almost anything NFA went through the roof. My 21 Thompson is worth 15 times what I paid for it.
My wife has always been supportive of my firearms hobby. However, in 1979 when we were starting a family and always seemed to have more bills than money coming in that $290 + 200 was a lot of money. She didn't veto me getting it but she wasn't very happy. Nowadays, knowing it is worth $30K, she admits it was a good thing I got it.
Yeah. My collection was pretty much done by the time I got married so it was never an issue. I have only bought a dozen firearms in the last 20 years.