75 round Romanian AK Drums any good?

[TheOtherOne]

I was going to order one of the Romanian 75rd drum magazines, mainly for the novelty of having one. I'm wondering if anyone knows if they are worth the price and if they are any good or will they be jamming every other shot? AIM has them for $69.95, and Centerfire has them (or at least they look the same) for the $69.99 shipped.

 

[hksw]

I looked into this earlier this week. (Ordered and since receive an Arsenal, Inc, RPK-7.)

The best info I had found was on AK-47.net.

The consensus seems to be they run fine. Direct copies of the Russian 75 round drums. Only problem is loading. One round at a time. The majority also seem to say that the Chinese drums (74 and 100 round) are slightly better and easier to load. The main reasons are that spring tension is not applied until you are ready to use the mag. That is, you can load up the mags to full capacity and leave them without spring tension for however long you want (putting less stress on the spring) until you want to shoot. All you have to do is wind it up in the back much like winding up a toy. The other positive is that to load, you remove the back cover, rotate the follower, and load up rounds as fast as you can into the partitions.

I'll probably get a Chi drum in the future (CDNN is selling them for $100), but in the mean time, I did get a Rom drum through AIM. Well built, seems smaller than I had imagined.

 

[Kodiak AK]

The Romy drums are great . The Chi com ones work great and a re a blast until they sproing on you .

 

[Nick1911]

I bought one a few weeks ago (had to make that gun TOTALLY non-PC!)

Loaded it all the way up once, and it feed and ran as one would expect an AK to. Not a hitch.

I recommend.

Nick

 

[TheOtherOne]

Great. I think I'll get one, with the amount of ammo it will eat I think the fact that you have to load one at a time will actually be a benefit. It'll slow me down and make my ammo funds last a little longer.

 

[Daedalus]

I recently got my hands on a chinese drum. Havent shot it off yet, but it is very easy to load and very heavy. Completely changes the feel of the gun when it is loaded and inserted. For normal range time, I think regular 20-30 rounders would be better.