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    I found some original US Ordnance photos a few...

    I found some original US Ordnance photos a few years back that showed both 30 round and 40 round magazines for the
    Model 1918 BAR. These were for anti-aircraft protection, by the mid 1930's these...
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    stories about compatable cartridges

    Sometimes a 7,62mm NATO will fire in a Mosin-Nagant rifle.

    Best story was that the US 50 cal BMG cartridge would fire in the Soviet 12.7mm
    machine gun often called the 51 Russian in Viet Nam but...
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    If out of curiosity, if I were to build a franken...

    If out of curiosity, if I were to build a franken magazine, I would tight swage the M16 top half of the magazine over a ground down AK magazine
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    30 round magazine

    By 1969 some of these "sterile" AR-18 magazines started to make their way to US Troops in Viet Nam. These were available before Colt 30 round magazine became available. These magazines would fit...
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    Franken M16/AK47 magazines

    A few years ago I saw some photos on other websites that showed AK47 magazines in M16 rifles, the photos lacked detail. I thought possible "photo-shop" or else these really were assembled in Viet Nam...
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    I have heard and some of the photos are evident...

    I have heard and some of the photos are evident that some of these franken magazines used the M16 magazine as the top section
    and a ground down AK-47 as the bottom part. Now as to what kind of...
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    Franken M16 magazines

    I came across some photos showing the so called "franken" magazines supposedly used in Viet Nam before the 30 round M16 magazine was issued. The story: the upper part of the M16 magazine has an...
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