Tapco Mag doesn't work

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Sorry everyone for all my stupid questions lately but I can't get the tapco "20" sorry 5 round mag to feed my old sks? The bullets don't even come close to lining up into the chamber? WTF is going on?
 
i think i know waht you says , the ip of the bullet get stuck just beside of the chamber ? if that you may have to do a very small chamfer on the corner of the chamber were the bullet get stuck , i've do that on one of my sks because at every 3 or 5 round the tip was getting stuck just beside the chamber
 
I thought everyone used these and they worked great?
Yes the tip gets stuck beside the chamber. Was alot of cursing today! I'm thinking I should have just left the damn thing original
 
Try stretching the spring.. Worked for me. That said I might go back to the original mag and use stripper clips. Just as fast as changing mags
 
I thought everyone used these and they worked great?
Yes the tip gets stuck beside the chamber. Was alot of cursing today! I'm thinking I should have just left the damn thing original

You got it bang on. My tapco mags worked at first but with hard use they started loosening up and Rounds would start popping Out when the mags were insterted. I returned the sks back to oinginal, sold all the tapco crap and bought a cz858, then an m14 then an xcr haha. The sks does what the sks was designed to do extremely well. Awesome shtf rifle but not with tapco mags. I wouldn't trust a tapco mag to do anything other than look kinda cool (when insterted, the duck bills look funny and make a chest rig almost impossible to find)
 
Hmmm, I just got a SKS and a Intrafuse stock along with two mags. I haven't even cleaned the cosmoline off the SKS yet, but I'll have to keep my eyes open for this when I get around to working on it.
 
Ya I guess I should have just left it stock. Only reason I changed it over to tapco crap was I wanted it to look different and kinda cool.
 
Yeah none of these mags ever work, for anyone, ever. Except all of mine.
But I'm also obsessed with looking cool to at the deserted gravel pits too, so....just dumb luck I guess.

I've also heard of lots of feeding problems with the stock pinned mags too though. So watch that follower inside that one too. Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't!
 
I have 3 x20 ...two work great, the other one .....not so great!!! stupid me sold my factory steel mag on the EE......YA you know who you are (the guy buying all the factory steel mag on the EE) and were coming for y..o..u.! LOL Going to have to buy some new farctory steelie or has anyone tried the after market steel mags with the duck bills?
 
I filed it down probably more than I should of and it still doesn't feed??

Edit- Took some material off the front of the mag and it now seems to maualy feed. Will try it out this afternoon.
 
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Have you fired the rifle yet, or is all this done with manual charging so far? Manual cycling is different than gas assist obviously, so hopefully things work out at the range.
 
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