Helical magazine in AK-47

Photo shows North Koreans with helical magazines in their AK-47 variations

Some estimate these magazine hold up to 120 rds of 5,45x39mmAttachment 60629

Can you imagine the weight of that puppy? It is my understanding they don't function all that well.

Now I see the reason for the over folding butt stock.

Bill, It still would be neat to have one of those helical magazines, sooner or later, a few will surface (kind of like the PSM pistol)

There is still a good choice with the Soviet box magazines tooAttachment 60630

I agree Robert. One day they will show up or be reproduced like the Romanian drum magazines.

Calico sure had that interesting magazine design. They came and went pretty quick. Seemed more of a fad than anything. They are still in business up here in Cornelius. I remember back the early 80s they were on 19th Street in Bakersfield, CA. The building they worked out of was very nondescript in it's appearance. Very few people even knew they made guns there. They really took off when their gun was used in a movie, can't remember which one it was, although they were used in Spaceballs.