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I took these pictures last year to illustrate the differences between the Yugo "bolt hold-open" steel magazines and common European ones.
Here it is next to a Soviet magazine, manufactured by Izhevsk. You can see that it's bolt hold-open is simply a built-up hump on the follower. The wear from the bolt slamming into the back of the hump can be seen.
Also note that the body has only two horizontal ribs near the bottom instead of the 3 that every other European-style mag has. Chicom mags also have only two ribs near the bottom, but they are longer. The last picture shows the Yugo next to a Chicom.
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Here it is next to a Soviet magazine, manufactured by Izhevsk. You can see that it's bolt hold-open is simply a built-up hump on the follower. The wear from the bolt slamming into the back of the hump can be seen.
Also note that the body has only two horizontal ribs near the bottom instead of the 3 that every other European-style mag has. Chicom mags also have only two ribs near the bottom, but they are longer. The last picture shows the Yugo next to a Chicom.




