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On the Weiger subject, I've spent a good part of the morning looking for more mags online. Has anyone seen Weigers for sale anywhere recently?

And to show how marvelously compact the Weiger mags are. Here is a Weiger steel mag with the others. What it doesn't show is the actual scale, as the Weigers are about 1" shorter than the slick-sided mags, and about 1/2" shorter than the 30 round ribbed 5.56 Bulgies. Pretty light weight for a steel mag too!

To shed a little light on the common poly 5.45 and 5.56 magazines you might come accross, here's a quick breakdown. From left to right: Polish Tantal 5.45, Bulgie Circle 10 5.45 (both basically identical), Polish Beryl 5.56 (looks almost identical to the 5.45 mags, but built specifically for the 5.56 round), and lastly the ribbed Bulgie Circle 10 5.56 mag. The Bulgie 5.56 mags are available in both 20 and 30 rounds in black and smoke, and 40 round black RPK versions are also available. Bulgie 5.56 mags are current production.

Good point, on second read it does call for 1mm. I had just remembered the photo showing around 1/4" of material removed, but the caption did specify that it was way too much. Still love the Weigers for quality, history, and design, but I did order both a Yugo M90 and smoked Bulgie mags to experiment with. Good info everyone, I'm looking forward to some interesting discussions on here!

Thanks again. That is actually the tutorial I followed, but needed to remove much less material from the mags than the tutorial showed. Only about 1mm per side. I did find the problem. My SGL-21 magwell, Weiger mags, poly Beryl mags, and Tantal poly and steel mags all measure 24.5mm accross, while the stock saiga .223 magwell and mag measure 26mm accross. That allows the Beryl and Weiger mags to lock up tight at the front lug, but have a little bit of actual lateral play against the mag release. I even hand stoned the magwell lip to fit the Weiger locking lug profile as perfectly/s

Thanks for the input. I was afraid I might take too much off the trunion, and then nothing would fit. I can deal with junking a mag, junking a rifle might keep me up at night! Also, modding each mag separately gives me the option to custom fit each mag for the best fit. The Weigers are awesome up close, excellent production work, and nice and compact. Just wish I would have gotten more when they were available, I can't find more anywhere! As far as the Bulgie Circle 10's, I'll probably go ahead and pick up an Arsenal SLR-106 now that they're in production again. Those smoked 20 an

Hey everyone! Well, to start off, I have an SGL-21 and 31 which I run steel mags in, (Polish & East German 30rd, Hungarian 20rd in 7.62, and Polish Tantal in 5.45 respectively), and wanted to build a matching .223 rifle to match. I purchased a round trunion, dimpled, pressed sight/gas block 16" Saiga rifle, a Bulgarian '74 parts kit, and a few Weiger mags to get started. To get the Weigers to seat I went the route of carefully removing a small amout of metal from the magwell lip just above the mag release on the rifle, and removing a slight amount of metal from the mags until they

Hi fellas. If you don't mind input from a new guy, I've got both of the rifles mentioned by the OP. Century 1960 - I'm all over the place on my opinion of this rifle. I love the fit and finish. The bolt and carrier are a polished specimen of perfection. The front sight block, gas block, even the milled magazine release, and my particular rifle's matching stock set, all wonderful. The receiver is well finished, everything is very smooth, but I'm not a fan of the way the feed ramp is riveted through a hole all the way through the bottom of the receiver, instead of hidden below a "tombs