Need help with mag ID

[jeffy_ssd]

A Marine buddy brought this back from Iraq last year. He has no clue nor do I as to what it fits or the country of origin. It is an after battle pick up and he found unloaded in a pile of identical mags on a rooftop. Any help would be appreciated.




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[Clear_blues]

looks like a mag for one of my relative's .308 hunting rifles, though I doubt this is it.

[Socrates187]

Reminds me of a Gewehr 43 magazine, but not sure.

[LineDoggie]

Not a G43 mag

G43 Mag:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h222/linedoggie/g43mag1.jpg

[Henry's Fork]

Hakim or MAS49 mag?

[gaijinsamurai]

I was thinking MAS49.

[Arnie100]

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Don't look like a MAS49 magazine...

[gaijinsamurai]

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Maybe not a MAS-49

[LineDoggie]

Not a Hakim, nor a Rashid and MAS49 has a pivoting catch assembly. Hell I even was looking at Volksgewehr Mags but no luck

Single position feed and the shape at the Back makes me think Rimmed Cartridge

[gaijinsamurai]

Damn, you be me to it, Arnie! :)

[gaijinsamurai]

I remember in the 1980's, Heckler and Koch had some .308 and .223 wood-stocked semi-auto carbines available to the US civilian market. I don't remember the model names. Perhaps it could be one of these?

[Arnie100]

S**T!! I wanna know what this is now!!

[gaijinsamurai]

H&K SL-7 is the rifle I was thinking of: http://www.world.guns.ru/civil/civ022-e.htm

...but I don't think that's the magazine.

[LineDoggie]

SL series and I dont think so.



Not a CZ52, ZH29 ZK 420 series

[Arnie100]

Looks almost AK-like...

[LineDoggie]

A Marine buddy brought this back from Iraq last year. He has no clue nor do I as to what it fits or the country of origin. It is an after battle pick up and he found unloaded in a pile of identical mags on a rooftop. Any help would be appreciated.




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Height
Length
Width

also any markings whatever

[dangerdan87]

Looks like a SMAW spotting round mag...

[Arnie100]

dangerdan nailed it!!!

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59312

[jeffy_ssd]

Thanks!! I would not havethought to look at a launcher. I guess that one of our guys left it on the rooftop during the fight. Much thanks to all

[gaijinsamurai]

Well done, D-D!

[dangerdan87]

Yes yes..I know I'm awesome ;p

The SMAW is a fun weapon to fire...though I wasn't an 0351, we cross trained.

[NeoConPatriot]

Why is the round designed as a 7.62x51 but a 22 hornet is inserted in the end? Does that combination most closely resemble the balistics of the main gun round? I would think using a common round as the spotting round would make more logistic/financial sense. Couldn't you get a similar trajectory from a light loaded 5.56?

[dangerdan87]

Why is the round designed as a 7.62x51 but a 22 hornet is inserted in the end? Does that combination most closely resemble the balistics of the main gun round? I would think using a common round as the spotting round would make more logistic/financial sense. Couldn't you get a similar trajectory from a light loaded 5.56?

No. Its a 9mm tracer projectile in a 7.62 casing (I think?) with a .22 hornet shell as a primer. It shoots subsonic and is closely the same velocity and trajectory of the SMAW rocket (though some of the SMAW rockets can go farther than others depending on what rocket your lunching).

Its to help the shooter get on target for when he launches the SMAW rocket for a first round hit.
It's also used to zero the sights (irons and scope). Its cheaper than spending thousands and thousands of dollars of the tax payers money.

BTW: a spotting round will never resemble the ballistics of any rocket ;P