Tapco High Capacity Mags

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I sent an email to Tapco and explained to them the shortage of high capacity pinned mags up here and this is what they sent back. Hopefully they will make a run of them in the near future.

Hi there,
My name is Derek and I live in British Columbia Canada. I am just writing in regards to purchasing pinned@5 ,20 round magazines. I see the odd used one for sale on the internet but they are gone instantly or grossly overpriced. I was wondering if you plan to make a production run of these mags or if you realize the great hole there is in the market in Canada for these items. You wouldnt believe how many people are searching for these mags up here. I wish we could just change the law to allow high capacity magazines but I dont see that happening anyttime soon!!!! So as we are only allowed 5 round mags people are desperate for these style magazines,,any help you could give me/us with this would be great. Thank you in advance for your help.
Derek

and their response......

Derek,



I’m not sure I understand. You can only have 5rd mags in Canada. But you don’t want a traditional 5rd mag, but one that looks like a 20rd, but is pinned and only holds 5rds. Is that correct? If so, why? Just for aesthetics? I have had a number of Canadians asking me about making Canadian-friendly mags, and we want to look into it. But I can’t wrap my head around the laws there. Can you clarify for me?



Kevin Stender
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driver71 said:
I sent an email to Tapco and explained to them the shortage of high capacity pinned mags up here and this is what they sent back. Hopefully they will make a run of them in the near future.

Hi there,
My name is Derek and I live in British Columbia Canada. I am just writing in regards to purchasing pinned@5 ,20 round magazines. I see the odd used one for sale on the internet but they are gone instantly or grossly overpriced. I was wondering if you plan to make a production run of these mags or if you realize the great hole there is in the market in Canada for these items. You wouldnt believe how many people are searching for these mags up here. I wish we could just change the law to allow high capacity magazines but I dont see that happening anyttime soon!!!! So as we are only allowed 5 round mags people are desperate for these style magazines,,any help you could give me/us with this would be great. Thank you in advance for your help.
Derek

and their response......

Derek,



I’m not sure I understand. You can only have 5rd mags in Canada. But you don’t want a traditional 5rd mag, but one that looks like a 20rd, but is pinned and only holds 5rds. Is that correct? If so, why? Just for aesthetics? I have had a number of Canadians asking me about making Canadian-friendly mags, and we want to look into it. But I can’t wrap my head around the laws there. Can you clarify for me?



Kevin Stender
Client Relations Supervisor
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awesome, keep us posted! it would be nice if there was a steady place to buy these things! you should make a poll on here: "who would buy one if tapco made them" and put the choices as : "YES!!", "If reasonably priced yes", "no".(or just yes or no) Then send the link/results of the poll to tapco that way they can see the amount of orders they would sell right off the bat.. might motivate them a little more. I/we do this all the time in a car forum im with to make vendors produce the car parts
 
It's not a news, I work with Tapco and other company for that and I send all Canadian laws, but like you know all US company are very busy since obama and before work for export market and lost time for fews mags they work for USA first

Now US market going down and it's good for us
 
Tapco may not understand the rationale behind wanting a 20 round mag, then pinning/limiting it to 5 rounds, but us Canucks know that we like them, just because.

Got a couple of 5/20s off the EE, thank you bjs7293, cheapest I've seen so jumped on them. I believe he has another one.

Tested them yesterday.....reliable, stripper clip friendly, and easy to remove/reload.

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vagrant said:
do you need to make any modification on a normal SKS rifle to use those
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On my 56 Tula solid birch stock, please see Post No. 9 this thread, I had to carve and file off a little wood on both sides of the magazine well, otherwise the Tapco mag will not slide in all the way. Just make sure you don't take off too much wood. Slow and easy, took about 15 minutes. Reseal the bare wood with some gun stock oil.

My 54 Tula laminate stock will need some trimming as well, if I choose to use Tapcos in it.
 
This guy just emailed me again...at least it looks like they might be serious about looking into it....I think they should send me a couple of testers if they decide to do a run of them:D

Thanks Derek. I agree. I convinced R&D to research it. Hopefully we’ll do it. If so, I’ll be sure to let you know.

Kevin



Kevin Stender
Client Relations Supervisor
 
Like I say before it's not a news (all Canadian company work for that, I send Canadian laws about mag capacity, I talk that in the Show Show) but they are too busy with US market for that, but since sales slowing down they are interessed again and of course it's a good news.

One email (January 2009).

Very soon we will have 30rd magazines for SKS and for AR.

Regarding the pin to make them fixed magazines, I will check. I told our new product development team.
 
Sorry this question might had been asked in another thread,does the bolt hold open after the last rd is fired in a tapco mag?
 
medic223 said:
Sorry this question might had been asked in another thread,does the bolt hold open after the last rd is fired in a tapco mag?
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1. Yes. In that regard, a regular SKS with Tapco mag is better than an SKS-D, IMO. The operator has to #### the bolt after loading a fresh mag on the D, but with the Tapco, one merely has to release the bolt carrier to chamber the first round.

2. The bolt has to be open to load and unload a Tapco mag. So it is good design feature that the Tapco mag has the ability to push up the bolt stop, when it is empty, just like the original magazine.
 
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