SVT-40 mag fitting

Best bet is to use an original and chedk out the dimentions. The repos look good but on some of them the rear lugs are way off.
 
Lower the lugs on the back to match your original, they tend to be to hight so the mag sit to low for the bolt to strip the rounds.
 
Caleb314 said:
Lower the lugs on the back to match your original, they tend to be to hight so the mag sit to low for the bolt to strip the rounds.
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Maybe they're made like this on purpose to allow fitting to the individual rifle? Interesting any way. It's good there is a quality repro available for these.
 
"...made like this on purpose..." More likely to have been modified from another rifle's mag. Most aftermarket mags start out that way. Making the tooling for a magazine that will be sold in limited numbers is expensive.
 
More recent aftermarket SVT mags were from German distributor. They were either ex-east German or ex-Polish or copies of such magazines. Both countries used SVT 40 rifles in their military schools and for parade use. They are of excellent quality but do require small modification to chamber properly. This was made on purpose since no parade rifle could be used to fire life ammo during the parade. Even if some one got some ammunition and loaded the magazine they would not feed thus making them perfectly safe for official use.
However all military schools in case of war emergency could always easily convert them to military use buy alerting feed angle
 
the ones I have from westrifle both needed fitting on the rear lugs, needed the feed lips filed (they were sharp enough to cut your finger), needed filing at the front, and the floor plate flies off if you look at it the wrong way. There aren't many options though, so making these work is the easiest way to get new mags. Also they're longer than the original mag.
 
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