Ooo, look - 50rd G3 drum mag for sale :O

[Patria Povo]

I think I'll buy a dozen :rolleyes:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=73885504

[Seattlefungus]

I have some of the AK 50's... Sorry to say, but in my old age I get tried just cranking off rounds with them. I'll hang on to them in case the zombies attack tho...

[casey439]

this guy must have thought they were made of gold Started at $1,200.00

[vpost]

:lol2: :roflmao: :lol2: OK, OK, who here just fell off the turnip truck!!!!!!!! Cause I heard with my minds eye "wow I need one of them!"

[GearShanty]

Hmmmmm.... lets see.... $1200 for one 50rd drum...or...$9.00 for three 20rd HK91 mags. $1200 divided by 50rds= $24/round....or I could by a thousand (quantity discount) 20rd G3 mags= $0.06/round.

Let me ask my wife and see if she thinks I should buy the drum.



By the way... anyone wanting 1000 G3 mags, please contact me at bill@gearshanty.com for quantity discount.

[Otis61]

Well it was interesting, but yeah. No.

[Patria Povo]

Well, now that I've stopped laughing for a few minutes ... I recall Perro saying last year that these could be ordered new through HK USA for around $1,000 (I think that was the price - it was pretty extravagent, whatever it was).

[okie shooter]

I wonder what they cost when orginally made for military use, I imagine something like a small fraction of what they want for them now.

[SteelCore]

I could get many many cool rifles and ammo with 1200...or this?!?!?!

C'mon. Drums are for thompsons and RPKs, Ppsh's and such.

The price is NOT rite.

[Caeb75]

Damnit.....Might be a new project to throw in the pile. Could probably use the internals from an AK drum, and new sheet metal for the rest.....with a steel G3 mag butchered for the feed tower.

[okie shooter]

Damnit.....Might be a new project to throw in the pile. Could probably use the internals from an AK drum, and new sheet metal for the rest.....with a steel G3 mag butchered for the feed tower.Or wait for the .308 variants promiced for over a year now from Beta, or are they backing off the promiced drums, does any one know? Would hate to see butchering of mags that are already valueable to make something that has been promiced for over a year now.

[bullseye]

Damnit.....Might be a new project to throw in the pile. Could probably use the internals from an AK drum, and new sheet metal for the rest.....with a steel G3 mag butchered for the feed tower.

The pics will surface, but it has been done with a dinty moore can. :thumbup:

[Les48]

The pics will surface, but it has been done with a dinty moore can. :thumbup:

I remember that, I believe it was COK that made it.

[Caeb75]

No Dinty Moore cans here. I'd use better steel than that. I have a couple AK drums, and I got a couple steel G3 mags in my order from RTG. $300 for 200 mags shipped... It was just a thought. Besides, I just bought a new house, and I dunno if there will be much time for fun projects for the next couple months...

[okie shooter]

Heres a shortcut to the promiced new drums, if they make it for the m1a, they can adapt it to the cetme/g3

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu6ZejnlGRDUAqYlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2dTNhdWF xBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2UEdnRpZANGOTAwXzgzBGwDV 1Mx/SIG=11lu6u5un/EXP=1182457822/**http%3a//betaco.com/newproducts.asp

[Seattlefungus]

Christttt!!! Oke Shooter, That mag at 10.2 lbs loaded weighs almost as much as my HK91!! It'd be like being a M60 gunner all over again... Excecpt I won't be shooting much off-hand! That's for Damn Sure!!

[mofocus]

^^^put the HK bipod to use there for sure

[wonderwolf]

Ferget teaching hold, aim & squeeze.....In the true military spirit lets get rid of hold and aim and keep squeeze in there along with reload and repeat. 50rds is a little ridiculous. Though fun I'm sure....

[okie shooter]

I imagine the drums, were made for application for a saw, but I dont think many armies adopted the G-3 as a saw, proably due to the lack of quick change barrel. Just as the us abandoned the saw based on the M-14. Without a way to cool the barrel, you just have another rifle in the line, with larger capicty for short bursts.

[Patria Povo]

I think the drums were made for the HK11 - which did have a quick-change barrel. Though, I don't think many countries adopted it aside from Greece.

The belt-fed HK23 got many rave reviews, though few sales as well.

[okie shooter]

Proably hard selling HK expensive saws, compared to the plethoria of MG3 and earler variants in europe.