Tango Down – Guns Holsters And Gear

US Palm is introducing the AK30 magazine, a polymer AK-47 magazine completely manufactured in the USA. These magazines are supposed to be the toughest polymer magazines ever made for the AK-47 series of rifles. Whether that is true is not for me to decide, but I am hearing very good things about these ammo feeders.

The 30-round AK-47 magazine uses the polymers developed by Tango Down. The AK30 magazine also borrows heavily from the design features of the Tango Down AR-15 magazine, including the non-removable floor plate for increased strength, the anti-tilt follower, chromium-silicon spring, and the large waffle-pattern texture on the magazine for a sure grip.

US Palm states the life expectancy on the AK30 magazine is in excess of 100,000 cycles. This is a lot of shooting, but I expect that I don’t have to tell you that. How much Wolf can one man handle anyway?

The magazine is a single piece design and does not come apart for cleaning or replacement of parts. Even though the magazine cannot be disassembled, it is still easy to clean due to the vented follower. US Palm recommends immersing the magazine in soapy water to clean, then rinse and turn it upside down to drain.

MSRP is $29.95. These magazines tend to sell at, or very close to, the suggested retail price. This puts them as being one of the most expensive AK-47 magazines on the market. Many people are buying metal mags for about half the cost of this one. A TAPCO magazine goes for about 1/3 the price of the US Palm AK30 magazine. Granted, this mag offers some features and details not available on some of the other polymer, US made magazines on the market today.

US Palm AK30 Specifications

Caliber: 7.62x39mm
Capacity: 30 rounds
Material: Proprietary Polymer
Weight: 7.0 ounces
Overall Length: 9″
Overall Width: 1 3/16″

In March, Tango Down introduced a new polymer AR-15 magazine called the ARC-L. Tango Down took a different approach to the AR-15 magazine, and designed something newÂ that is worth looking at.

Tango Down developed the ARC-L magazine by going back to the drawing board and taking a hard look at ammunition feeding in the AR-15 platform. Tango Down started with the understanding that 30-round magazines in the AR-15 are curved, yet the magazine well in the AR-15 is straight.

Instead of utilizing a single piece of molded plastic, the Tango Down magazine is a two-part assembly that snaps together (permanently) in the middle. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is to have a straight portion that is in the magazine well, with a curved portion that is the part extending beyond the magazine well.

Tango Down says by using the two-piece construction they can mix various polymers for different portions of the magazine:

We can also mix materials, impossible with conventional plastic magazines. We can offer transparent lower/high tensile strength upper sectioned magazines that avoid the brittle feed lip issue of all-transparent material construction.