magazine covers

old magazine covers from a long time ago !Attachment 20051

Contractor was Tower Packaging, from Wheeling, Ill. The early ones had no Vietnamese writing on them. They were the first two months of production (Jan and Feb, 1970). There were also some very scarce ones for 30 round magazines.

A guy currently in the service posted a while back that the 30 round protective covers were found and were issued to his unit. I have had only two or three in all the years of my business.

A lot of fakers pack fake parts inside them and list them as "Original Vietnam Issue .....". I have seen them at gun shows, on the internet and on eBay.

If Victor Charley picked one of those up empty he MAYBE allowed to cross US lines and surrender. A form of the Chu Hoi program.

I still have a few of the 20 round bags with the Vietnamese writing on them. I had a couple of the 30 round bags, but I don't know what happened to them. Disappeared in the last 20 years.!!!!

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PS, I am building slick side retro from a 1977 SP1 parts kit. I WANT THAT WAFFLE MAGAZINE!!!! I wish I still had a set of green painted brown furniture and a duck bill FH like I used to!

I too used to have a set of black painted-green painted fibrite brown furniture, but foolishly left it in the safe keeping of a friend.

Funny how that works. About 23 years ago (but who's counting), I gave a set to a friend who "had to have it" for an early AR he was building for himself. He promised to pick me up a set to replace it, since he did gunshows all the time. Thing is, he sold it immediately and never replaced it. Needless to say, we are no longer friends. There were other issues (like my carting his gunshow stuff in my van along with my own gunshow stuff to Pomona , and finding a Jap Nambu machinegun broken down in one of his crates that he FORGOT to mention...), but the brown furniture was also a big part of the unraveling of our friendship.

I was at the Forks of the Delaware gun show this weekend and saw another 30 round cover. The date was 1980.

Of course no Vietnamese markings.

Since the original photo seems to have gone away, here's a few new bad ones:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...tuff0153-1.jpg




https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...tuff0143-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...tuff0063-1.jpg
Looks long for a 20, but a thirty definitely doesn't fit.