Weird stuff, or low cap stuff, because every one of those guns I've seen for sale always had this melange of crap with it. So whatever colt was selling had to be
difficult to find or expensive. They usually looked like this...
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You can see from here the obvious problem is obvious.
Cartridges like 5.45 x 39 and 7.62 x 39 were not designed to be used in guns like this that have straight mag feed towers. The shape of the cartridge leads to a dimensional
stacking thing. Even the mags depicted above, although they probably work, are best described as "still f***ing weird" and you can imagine the mechanical nightmare going
on inside that shit in the top part of the magazine. *shudder*. You know how you pick up one of those shitty doublestack 10 round cripplemags for (glock, HK, whatever?) and you
fill it (to capacity) with ammo, and you can still hear the ammo rattling around slightly in the mag? Imagine that same kind of f***ery, except with a RIFLE CARTRIDGE that's like 2.5 times as long....
I remember when S&W or someone like that had this big pomp and circumstance about a 545 x 39 AR they were releasing. Everyones moisture count elevated because at the time
545 was brutally, brutally cheap, as in like $150 for 1000 rounds or less. Then as time went by the silence became deafening. I'm guessing this is because it got produced and it
sucked, or they just didn't make a lot, or any, because it sucked. Otherwise everyone and their brothers uncle would have bought one, with the cheap ammo and what not.
For me this stuff is firmly in the "looks cool, but actually probably sucks" realm. But it's like anything else, as far as I'm concerned this isn't much different
than like guys who like actually sleeping with crazy broads. I don't have the tolerance or patience for that kind of garbage, but if someone else does, go for it... be my guest.
-Mike