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I bought a yugo sks last week, which came with 2 30 round magazines. The rifle will not feed with either one of them. The round hits the bottom of chamber. After much bending and filing on one of them I got it to feed but only if I load less then 10 rounds. I looked around locally and the only thing I could find was the pro mag, which seems to be the same thing i have. I bought one today and it don't even fit. Anyone know of a good hi cap mag for the sks? Is there a secret to change mags without needing 6 arms? It is very cumbersome just to get the mag in the rifle. This rifle is in excellent shape but I'm already wanting to trade it and haven't even fired it yet.
 
Ditch the detachable mags, and get an internal 10 rounder. The detachable mags hardly ever work. And there might be some issues with the number of imported parts...... 922r
 
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+1 on going back to an internal 10 rounder. The SKS was not made to work with detachable magazines and very few people have ever been able to get them to work consistantly.

If a high capsity 7.62x39 caliber carbine is really desired, why not get an AK clone?
 
There where a few good ones around 20+ years ago. The only one that seems to work most the time now is Tapco.
 
dont do the pro mags. they suck. i know, i got suckered by them once. tapco works the best out of all detach mags. the factory 10 rounder works the best of all though
 
You need a Tapco or USA mag, they are the only ones that feed 100%. If you want the mag cut to SKS-M specs so you don't have to be an octopus to change the mag lemme know, we cut a bunch of them.
 
If I were you, I'd stick with the original box magazine. There's no wondering if it will function correctly, and the SKS was never meant to be a high capacity weapon. If you want big magazines, buy an AK, and leave the SKS as it was meant to be.
 
Another vote for original ten-round steel magazine. The SKS is a weapon module, not a modular weapon. It's a nigh-indestructable brick of weapon that you put cartridges in and bullets spit out in roughly the direction you point, unlike the tinkertoy-customizeable modular weapon that is the AR.
 
I definitely agree with you guys, but having had experience with Tapco 20 rounds magazines and many, many rounds through them, I can say with complete confidence that the 20 round magazine is the ONLY way to go if you want to use detachable magazines on your SKS. I have had 100% reliability with my magazines. They change quickly and feed flawlessly. You're all correct - the 10 round box won't fail you - but it's not for everyone.
 
+1 on going back to the original mag. I had a roommate who just had to mod his SKS for more than 10 rounds. It never worked right, and he sold it eventually. I've had a few that I left stock and they have all been flawless.
 
I say original 10 round mag as well. Before my buddy sold me his Yugo SKS, he tried a 30 round detachable and it didn't work. It was far from detachable. It had to be inserted before the rifle was fully assembled and it would only take 10-15 rounds from a stripper clip. He got it for free, so it was a loss of time, not money.
 
ProMag?

If my memory serves me (which, the older I get the more it wants to sit and rest), the two 5-round magazines I got first for hunting with my Bushmaster were ProMags and they were junk.

I sent them back ASAP and ordered Bushmaster OEM magazines (five round) for hunting and they have been PERFECT EVERY TIME I USE THEM!

I had an SKS and it came with an extended wedge-shaped closed (hinged) magazine hanging off the bottom (I believe it was 10 rounds as I recall making a wooden wedge to restrict it to six rounds so I could deer hunt with it - back in the 80's).
That's all you need!
 
Fixed Mags

Hey, all the SKS variants I've ever shot - Chinese, Yugo, Russian - feed very reliably from the fixed 10-round mag. It's just not an AK.

You CAN get a 20-round fixed mag if you really think you need firepower - I bought a NORINCO one for my Type 56, and it works flawlessly. Your Yugo isn't junk at all - well made and well designed, absolutely reliable. Just go with the 10-round box mag that was made for it, or go with a fixed 20 if you really want one. They're not at all much bigger than the original 10-round job. They're a little annoying to install but I imagine you can get the 10-round variety pretty cheap, or the 20 round for a few bucks more.

I've never personally seen one that would reliably handle detatchable mags. If anybody knows of somebody who makes good ones these days, let me know and I'll try it one more time.....
 
"IMHO the only detachable mag worth buying the 20 round Tapco. Both of mine have fed flawlessly 100% of the time. I would suggest spending the cash on one of those, and failing that, try to replace the original box mag."

Do you mean the 20 rounder with the duck bill or the 20 round AK mag?
 
I have 5 norincos and 4 have the original 10 rounders, I much prefer these. I did buy one that had been bubbaed with the detachable metal 30 rd. mag, that does work. However the only other mag that works in it is the tapco which others have mentioned.

Stick with the 10 round and stripper clips or look for a Norince D or M model which will take AK mags.
 
Throw those pro-mags away and don't look back. I would rather shoot it as a single shot then to have to fight with loading problems. I would look for an original magazine.
Good luck
Terry (pinstripe)
 
I have a Yugo SKS (the 59/66 with grenade launcher, HUGE blade bayonet, etc). Ir works fine with the 10-round mag.

Just like my US Rifle Cal .30 M1, I know the limitations of the magazines, so I don't mess with that.
 
I tried all different kinds of detachable mags, I went back to the fixed 10 rounders. With the strange manual of arms required to use the detachable mags I am actually faster with stripper clips. These are the only strippers my wife lets me play with.
 
thought I'd bring back a dead post here by saying that I know why the high cap mags have problems feeding...... I just spent all day sunday shooting my sks with a 30rd mag and I noticed that if the mag has more than 20 rounds in it, the tips of the rounds will start to angle downwards and when the weapon tries to load the next round in it the front of bullet is not being raised up and guided into the chamber.....instead it gets pressed just below the chamber into the bottom of the barrell. I had fun but I believe it can be fixed with some mild machine work.....if ya have the know how.....you just need a little metal added below the barrell in the chamber to make a "ramp" to allow the round to glide into the barrell.
 
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