Excellent loading demonstration. However the unloading procedure was incorrect. To unload you insert into a Kalashnikov pull the charging handle and depress the trigger until magazine is empty. ☺
Mann yu are so right dam near impossible too unload just broke my shit tryna unload and reload shouldn't have even fucked with it was worried about da spring fuck dat spring now
@@xxalmightyxx4749 lmao mags are completely safe being stored loaded wont mess up the spring at all , if ur mag breaks or the spring gets really weak was cheap af mag to begin with n shoulda been tossed out
No idea why I watched this whole thing. I don't own an AK or a drum mag. I will say however you did an excellent job of explaining and demonstrating what you wanted to teach. Not professional quality but you did excellent for being 2011 and just some guy wanting to help people learn.
Good video on loading drum mags. I don't know where people get this spring fatigue stuff from. Keeping your mags fully loaded will not wear the spring out. Compressing and decompressing a spring is what will cause it to fatigue over a LONG period of time. Keeping the spring compressed all the time has no effect on spring tension and it won't hurt it even if you kept it loaded for 40 or 50 years. I recently shot some magazines out of my ak's that had been loaded since '93 without any issues. Spring fatigue is a myth that has been passed around for a LONG time. There has been several documented cases by the NRA about 1911 GI mags that had been loaded for over 50 years and were in a basement put away in surplus ammo cans that were fired without any issues at all and they were the GI mags everybody hated. If your going to keep mags loaded, load them to capacity. All in all, great video
This was a great help. Just loaded one up today and followed your instructions. Oh, one thing, the front "clip" where the lid comes down can get bound up and it doesn't let the ammo feed properly. For the guys doing this for the first time, make sure you put the lid down into the front clip and then the side latches. Works like a charm!!!! Thanks again!!!
Great Video, I bought this drum magazine based on your recommendation. Perfect loading instructions. I saw the awesome power of the AK and SKS rifles in Vietnam up close and personal. I just got my FFL and SOT license after I retired, having a blast. Purchased two new really cool Romanian PSL-54C's semi-automatic 7.62x54R with scopes, one to sell and one to keep. I will do a video. Again, thank you keep up the great work.
Ignore the haters. I found the video very useful, I unboxed my drum mag, watched your video, and was good to go. She's all loaded and sitting in the gun safe.
Awesome video OP! After watching this, I ordered one and watched it again to load her up. Great going! Can't wait to take to the range and try her out.
@@shannonbenson8921 Nope. I haven't had the time. Hopefully the weather will be good this weekend and I'll try it out. Well, it depends on which range I go to also. Right now I only have an M92 Yugo pistol. If I wait until next week I could try it with my Arsenal SAM7 SF84E!
I don't own any firearms, but i do have interest in them. Ran into this video randomly, and i can say that this was very good info to learn for a "just in case one day someone asks me to load up an AK drum". Lol. You can tell your info was accurate and correct. I agree with not having springs always under tension, unless you're in battle or need to be ready.
On the contrary I bought some mags from a company for my Glock, there spring tension became obsolete after it was stored with just 12 rounds in a 15 capacity mag for about 3 months compared to original Glock mags. After about 5 shots the rest of the rounds were stuck in the mag as if the spring mechanism collapsed. Stick with originals, to many fake competitors!
@@Sonnyrmthabx its different with an ak mag because of the angle of the magazine. I've kept my ak mags loaded for years. Take them to the range and they run flawlessly. Its one of the perks of running an ak. My Beretta mags are a different story.
Just got a Romanian 75 rd drum from classic firearms .I tried to load it did not work .I loaded it per your video.......you will not believe it..... it worked.... :-) Thanks for the video very helpful.
Excellent post man, we appreciate the detailed explanation especially all the pros and cons of actions taken or not taken. Thanks fellow gun enthusiast!
Thanks great video, Lot clearer on how to load than some of the other vids Ive seen on here. None of the others showed how to partial load and one said that it could damage the drum.
@@shannonbenson8921 Not yet. I have a bunch of KCI mags from Korea that operate flawlessly in my PSA GF3. The drum did have to be filed down on the locking lug for it to audibly lock in, but it fits now. Honestly, the ammo shortage is what's keeping me from trying it out. I just got it less than a month ago. I'll report back when I try it out.
first time user of the drum magazine, found your video very nice and in depth for someone such as myself who's never even opened a drum mag before. Thanks mate.
I have bought two of the new us built polymer drums to try out, they are clam shell designed drums, but only 73 rounds instead of 75. Seem to be a good bit lighter, and operate the same as the chicom stuff. After loading and shooting each one 10 times, there has been zero malfunctions, and seem to be really well built. The 80$ price tag is a good deal to, if you don't mind the promag name. I will say they are much much better built then their poly an mags
Good video, but keeping mags loaded doesnt hurt the spring in the slightest. Only compression cycles will, so you're doing more harm by releasing the spring every time. Caveat here is thin walled mags can bend the feedlips, especially on poly mags.
Keeping mags loaded over time does not hurt them. Repeatedly loading and unloading is what causes spring fatigue. My grandfather had a few WW1 era 1911 magazines laying around and I asked him about his original 1911 with a magazine loaded with 1917 headstamped 45 ACP and he said his dad (My great grandfather) brought that 1911 back from WW1 along with his issued magazines. Apparently he bought (Hell, he could have just stolen it and they wrote it off as lost in combat) his service pistol after the war. Those magazines were loaded for over 100 years and when I unloaded the one in the gun with the 1917 dated ammo, the spring was just as strong as the ones that had been unloaded.
When you have encounters with the mentally handicapped such as ☆unknownsoldier☆ it is important to let them have their space and ignore every word that comes out of their mouth. Degenerate inbred entities such as that... thing don't require your time or energy. A simple quick analysis of how awful their grammar, and use of emojis is can allow the intelligent viewer to realise that they have less than 90 neurons firing each second. And would actually be at a disadvantage if they were to play chess with an 11 year old child. Just leave them to play with their toys. And shoot them if you come across them in real life. No one will bat an eye. Seriously.
failtolawl you obviously know nothing about guns, you arent going to oneshot kill 75 people with each bullet, and 75 people arent going to come into your house, maybe a group of them in which all of them have guns, which has happened to people before, you are going to put at least 4-5 rounds into each person before they die.
Nice video. How's you 8 half turns working out for you? Are you running 100% without any feeding or jamming issues? I noticed that when loaded with 75, one can release the tension and then easily load #76 from the top with no issues at all. It just pushes the stack down, and with room to spare.
I scored several 100 round chinese style drums back in the early 90's for 50 bucks each, seeing how prices have gone I'm glad I got those while they were still available.
Good method for loading however, having constant tension isn't going to wear out the spring. It's the releasing and compressing that wears it out. The struts on your car don't wear out from your car sitting in the driveway, they wear out from actual use. Don't be scared to load a mag (in this case compressed) and store it that way.
Hey man, you gave the perfect explanation and demonstration combination. I tried several times on my own and also a few other videos and somehow got it wrong each time. I followed your demonstration step by step and got it right immediately! Bless you man!
if it hurt springs to be stored under load then heavy industry would fall apart overnight. also, roll-up garage doors wouldn't work, since those springs are always under a huge amount of load.
Had one of the springs on my roll-up garage door let go a few years ago, what a racket. Rule of thumb used by spring replacement guy: 1 complete turn for every foot of garage door height so mine took approximately 7 turns on each of the two springs to get a neutral door balance. The greatest coiled energy is when the door is down and that is when it popped. Yeah, it will make you jump.
My understanding is fully loaded is fine. Fully wound is not. I keep mine loaded with only enough wind that cartriges don't fall out. Four clicks from unwound.
Uh yeah it does hurt them. These magazines because you can remove the spring tension they are good for storing over long periods of time. However try storing a regular box fed magazine for a long period of time and you will wear out the spring in the magazine.
@@TDONLEY91 no you wont. thats not how springs work. Springs in a box mag wear in compression cycles, fully load or unload makes no difference. HOWEVER shitty mags left loaded can mess up the feed lips from the tension under them when fully loaded. Moral is dont buy shit mags and you can keep them fully loaded.
Having tension on a spring does not hurt them adding and releasing tension allot however does but if you don't want yours loaded then that your preference. Other than that great vid and thanks for the tips.
Usually the creep load (which is the kind of load where the material loses strength when it's elastically deformed), won't make your spring wear out. The pressure required is many times more than what the cartridge is going to put on it and it usually happens at much, much higher temperatures than what your magazine is going to be exposed to. Generally springs in magazines also won't suffer from fatigue, the cyclic loading and unloading of the spring. It would take a very large amount of cycles of unloading and loading the magazine, probably many more than you'll ever put on it, before the spring even starts to cause you problems. tl;dr just keep your mags loaded, it'll be fine.
I went with same style drum but a 100 rnd mag for an mak 90.. good tips in general on spring tention precautions and general follower placement tips and releasing spring tention when starting or on stored mags . note ; It may be filled but its not loaded till have propper tention to fire . How to know exactly the full turns needed is look see how many times the follower revolves in the tracks and prehaps a 1/2 to 3/4 even 1 turn more for proper tention on last round. Do not over tention that spring. Get a dowel to shove each round out of the mag lips like the bolt would as a test to be sure you understand how and if you loaded the mag and tention correctly when learning OR retesting your reload mag skills BEFORE going to the range .
Great video!!! It helped me load my mag perfectly. As for all the complaints, FUGG THEM!! You didn't have to take your time to do it, but you did. SALUTE!!! Some ######fugz will find fault with any and everything. Thanks again.
Your video and technique has worked better than any I have seen yet. Haha I got clipped as well. Bleeding on your new drum is not cool. I was wondering, when I got clipped it bent the follower and is not malfing at around 15 or 20 rounds. Failure to feeds, got any idea why that might be? And what happened to yours when yours slipped on you? Thanks
Thanks so much man. I watched other videos and they all only showed you how to load 73, and still said they got 75 in, haha. I guess alot of people don't count their bullets.
Thank you so much man. I had given up on trying to use my drum but you just saved it for me. Imma try to shoot it Monday to see if I can get it to function appropriately. My first time I cut up my fingers and it only shot 40 rounds. (Mine didn't come with instructions)
Excellent video. Just bought 2 of these mags and came with no instructions whatsoever. Would've been difficult for me to figure out the proper way to load mag. Thanks!
thanks for the help. after watching closely i realized the guide on mine was bent straight not allowing the rounds to feed properly. my drum is new so others may have this same problem.
Ive been hearing lately that keeping a stick mag loaded doesn't actually hurt the spring at all idk how it works with the circular spring in a drum but can we crack this once and for all
on the drums you don't leave it with the spring wound up. you only crank up the spring when you get ready to shoot it. as for the banana mags keeping them loaded doesn't wear on the springs springs wear out by compressing and decompressing of the springs over time.
Also, I just noticed that you loaded that segment right under the loading tower and it's behind the follower. Will this cause the mag to jam? I'm pretty sure that those rounds won''t even fire.
Great Video. I just got the same drum today. I had one question though. When I put in a regular ak mag it snaps into place, and I have to use the mag release latch to get the mag out. When I put the drum in, it doesn't latch like a mag, and I can unmount it by just pulling on the drum. I don't get that solid latch like a stock mag. Do you think I have a defective drum , or is this normal?
How much extra weight does it add with the 75 round drum ?? My AK is already heavy as hell with Troy industries rail and scopes. It’s gotta weight 11 pounds lol. Those drum mags look like they can be a pain in the ass
just real quick, Springs dont wear out from resting compressed. they wear from usage. which is why your car's suspension doesn't wear out from being at rest for years but only from usage. you could keep that mag charged and hot to rock for ages. just as long as you didn't keep charging and discharging that spring.
If it is behind the follower, they won't be loaded. If they are in front of the follower (the follower 'follows' the rounds ;] ), they will be. The cylinder that pushes the wheel/rounds forward (the follower) is hinged, so it will go up the neck to push the last rounds in to the receiver.
Yeah you don't need to count the turns... Turn it until you can't anymore. He said not to load any cartridges into the little single slots near the edge when doing whatever he was doing. Do it anyway, that's how the drum was made to be used.
either I somehow fucked something up or I'm a wizard because I got 76 loaded into that drum. Either way it's ridiculously heavy and I love It! just need full auto capabilities and a herd of wild hogs.
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Excellent loading demonstration. However the unloading procedure was incorrect. To unload you insert into a Kalashnikov pull the charging handle and depress the trigger until magazine is empty. ☺
Who else read this in a Russian accent
Mann yu are so right dam near impossible too unload just broke my shit tryna unload and reload shouldn't have even fucked with it was worried about da spring fuck dat spring now
@@xxalmightyxx4749 lmao mags are completely safe being stored loaded wont mess up the spring at all , if ur mag breaks or the spring gets really weak was cheap af mag to begin with n shoulda been tossed out
@@moneybilla No cap it was dat cheap kci drum! da Russian kno what dey doing but dem Asian no way Jose
@@xxalmightyxx4749 oh shi them kci ones are junk? Preciate that shit lowkey was thinking of getting sum of those fk that lmao
13 years later and still the best video on the subject. Thanks brother!
No idea why I watched this whole thing. I don't own an AK or a drum mag. I will say however you did an excellent job of explaining and demonstrating what you wanted to teach.
Not professional quality but you did excellent for being 2011 and just some guy wanting to help people learn.
Good video on loading drum mags. I don't know where people get this spring fatigue stuff from. Keeping your mags fully loaded will not wear the spring out. Compressing and decompressing a spring is what will cause it to fatigue over a LONG period of time. Keeping the spring compressed all the time has no effect on spring tension and it won't hurt it even if you kept it loaded for 40 or 50 years. I recently shot some magazines out of my ak's that had been loaded since '93 without any issues. Spring fatigue is a myth that has been passed around for a LONG time. There has been several documented cases by the NRA about 1911 GI mags that had been loaded for over 50 years and were in a basement put away in surplus ammo cans that were fired without any issues at all and they were the GI mags everybody hated. If your going to keep mags loaded, load them to capacity. All in all, great video
some mags do state to not keep them loaded for long periods of time. calico hexical mags for example
Lol yeah, idk who keeps these myths alive. If it were true that you couldn't keep springs under tension all of our cars would be dragging the ground 😂
I mean the only damage to springs is using it not leaving it in place.
This was a great help. Just loaded one up today and followed your instructions. Oh, one thing, the front "clip" where the lid comes down can get bound up and it doesn't let the ammo feed properly. For the guys doing this for the first time, make sure you put the lid down into the front clip and then the side latches. Works like a charm!!!! Thanks again!!!
Thank you so much....Just got a drum for an AK and a SKS and had no idea what to do next!!!
Great Video, I bought this drum magazine based on your recommendation. Perfect loading instructions. I saw the awesome power of the AK and SKS rifles in Vietnam up close and personal. I just got my FFL and SOT license after I retired, having a blast. Purchased two new really cool Romanian PSL-54C's semi-automatic 7.62x54R with scopes, one to sell and one to keep. I will do a video. Again, thank you keep up the great work.
Thanks for the video, Was hella confused at first. Even though the video is 10 years old you came through!
Ignore the haters. I found the video very useful, I unboxed my drum mag, watched your video, and was good to go. She's all loaded and sitting in the gun safe.
Gun safe? You sir are a responsible gun owner.
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Awesome video OP! After watching this, I ordered one and watched it again to load her up. Great going! Can't wait to take to the range and try her out.
I just bought one myself. They're getting harder to find and the price has increased. Have you shot yours yet?
@@shannonbenson8921 Nope. I haven't had the time. Hopefully the weather will be good this weekend and I'll try it out. Well, it depends on which range I go to also. Right now I only have an M92 Yugo pistol. If I wait until next week I could try it with my Arsenal SAM7 SF84E!
Why this stuff looks like my classmate's lunch box
Cliff Lee think your classmate is planning a very special lunch
@@jmassey7323 It's still fine that he planned some omlet and chicken today lol
J Massey heh yeah
ALL THE OTHER KIDS WITH THEIR PUMPED UP KICKS
Cliff Lee Is your classmate russian by any chance? That could be the reason
I don't own any firearms, but i do have interest in them. Ran into this video randomly, and i can say that this was very good info to learn for a "just in case one day someone asks me to load up an AK drum". Lol. You can tell your info was accurate and correct. I agree with not having springs always under tension, unless you're in battle or need to be ready.
Just bought one today. Over 9 years after this video lol
Lol same
Me two yall
I just bought a Red Army Standard the day Biden was inaugurated wish I could load one up everyday its so fun
Man THANK YOU!!! Just seen this and I’ve owned mine over 2 years and haven’t shot it without jamming until coming across this video
This video has all I need to know about the AK-47, 75 round drum magazine. Thanks for saving me $100!
Keeping a 30rd magazine loaded doesn’t wear the spring at all, bud.
On the contrary I bought some mags from a company for my Glock, there spring tension became obsolete after it was stored with just 12 rounds in a 15 capacity mag for about 3 months compared to original Glock mags. After about 5 shots the rest of the rounds were stuck in the mag as if the spring mechanism collapsed. Stick with originals, to many fake competitors!
@@Sonnyrmthabx fakes are always worse, if using a real mag, you should be fine storing them loaded, correct?
@@blakelynch400 yes
@@Sonnyrmthabx its different with an ak mag because of the angle of the magazine. I've kept my ak mags loaded for years. Take them to the range and they run flawlessly. Its one of the perks of running an ak. My Beretta mags are a different story.
Facts!
Just got a Romanian 75 rd drum from classic firearms .I tried to load it did not work .I loaded it per your video.......you will not believe it..... it worked.... :-) Thanks for the video very helpful.
Excellent post man, we appreciate the detailed explanation especially all the pros and cons of actions taken or not taken. Thanks fellow gun enthusiast!
Thank you for providing this video, great presentation it really helped out our candidates, thankyou
So I'm I on the FBI watch list
Thanks great video, Lot clearer on how to load than some of the other vids Ive seen on here. None of the others showed how to partial load and one said that it could damage the drum.
magazines get worn from spring stress emptying and loading. tension on a spring won't ruin it that's what a spring is made for
Thank the lord some humans aren’t completely stupid I’ve seen so many people arguing over that😂
I have watched a couple of these videos so far..... this one is by far the best! the overhead view made the difference! thanks
Thanks alot dude! My Korean RWB didn't come with any instructions. You saved my ass! 👌👌👌
Have you shot your Korean drum yet? I've heard that they are somewhat unreliable.
@@shannonbenson8921 Not yet. I have a bunch of KCI mags from Korea that operate flawlessly in my PSA GF3. The drum did have to be filed down on the locking lug for it to audibly lock in, but it fits now. Honestly, the ammo shortage is what's keeping me from trying it out. I just got it less than a month ago. I'll report back when I try it out.
first time user of the drum magazine, found your video very nice and in depth for someone such as myself who's never even opened a drum mag before. Thanks mate.
I have bought two of the new us built polymer drums to try out, they are clam shell designed drums, but only 73 rounds instead of 75. Seem to be a good bit lighter, and operate the same as the chicom stuff. After loading and shooting each one 10 times, there has been zero malfunctions, and seem to be really well built. The 80$ price tag is a good deal to, if you don't mind the promag name. I will say they are much much better built then their poly an mags
Good video, but keeping mags loaded doesnt hurt the spring in the slightest. Only compression cycles will, so you're doing more harm by releasing the spring every time.
Caveat here is thin walled mags can bend the feedlips, especially on poly mags.
Keeping mags loaded over time does not hurt them. Repeatedly loading and unloading is what causes spring fatigue. My grandfather had a few WW1 era 1911 magazines laying around and I asked him about his original 1911 with a magazine loaded with 1917 headstamped 45 ACP and he said his dad (My great grandfather) brought that 1911 back from WW1 along with his issued magazines. Apparently he bought (Hell, he could have just stolen it and they wrote it off as lost in combat) his service pistol after the war. Those magazines were loaded for over 100 years and when I unloaded the one in the gun with the 1917 dated ammo, the spring was just as strong as the ones that had been unloaded.
just in case your house is invaded by 75 people.
failtolawl or just one that twitches
failtolawl or when you need to paint your walls and make some nail holes
When you have encounters with the mentally handicapped such as ☆unknownsoldier☆ it is important to let them have their space and ignore every word that comes out of their mouth. Degenerate inbred entities such as that... thing don't require your time or energy. A simple quick analysis of how awful their grammar, and use of emojis is can allow the intelligent viewer to realise that they have less than 90 neurons firing each second. And would actually be at a disadvantage if they were to play chess with an 11 year old child.
Just leave them to play with their toys. And shoot them if you come across them in real life. No one will bat an eye.
Seriously.
failtolawl you obviously know nothing about guns, you arent going to oneshot kill 75 people with each bullet, and 75 people arent going to come into your house, maybe a group of them in which all of them have guns, which has happened to people before, you are going to put at least 4-5 rounds into each person before they die.
@@orangeusername1792 you are a bad shot haha loser you're probably a liberal
Thanks for the video I had a hard time reading my Czech-Slovak instructions but now it all makes sense.
Thank you! I was so confused before seeing your video.
Thank you, I was having a fit trying to figure this thing out. But got it now, thanks to you!
Thanks man. Just bought another drum and went right back to this vid to do it right again 👍🏻
Just got mine in the Mail. 15 mins later she's loaded up... Bout to go field test haha. Thanks
You have the best video on loading those things thank you
Well explained. I have one and it bites like a shark. Never knew how to load it after getting one over 32 plus years ago. Got mine for $10 .
Nice video. How's you 8 half turns working out for you? Are you running 100% without any feeding or jamming issues? I noticed that when loaded with 75, one can release the tension and then easily load #76 from the top with no issues at all. It just pushes the stack down, and with room to spare.
I scored several 100 round chinese style drums back in the early 90's for 50 bucks each, seeing how prices have gone I'm glad I got those while they were still available.
Very good demonstration. I have the exact mag and this helped. Thank you!
Good method for loading however, having constant tension isn't going to wear out the spring. It's the releasing and compressing that wears it out. The struts on your car don't wear out from your car sitting in the driveway, they wear out from actual use. Don't be scared to load a mag (in this case compressed) and store it that way.
Just picked one up out of the blue for my AK. Thank you. Very helpful!!!
Hey man, you gave the perfect explanation and demonstration combination. I tried several times on my own and also a few other videos and somehow got it wrong each time.
I followed your demonstration step by step and got it right immediately! Bless you man!
if it hurt springs to be stored under load then heavy industry would fall apart overnight. also, roll-up garage doors wouldn't work, since those springs are always under a huge amount of load.
Had one of the springs on my roll-up garage door let go a few years ago, what a racket. Rule of thumb used by spring replacement guy: 1 complete turn for every foot of garage door height so mine took approximately 7 turns on each of the two springs to get a neutral door balance. The greatest coiled energy is when the door is down and that is when it popped. Yeah, it will make you jump.
@Non Ya call a garage door place they deal with that kind of thing
Great video but keeping magazines fully loaded doesnt hurt them...not sure about drums...but great video thanks for the information
Wicked
My understanding is fully loaded is fine. Fully wound is not. I keep mine loaded with only enough wind that cartriges don't fall out. Four clicks from unwound.
Uh yeah it does hurt them. These magazines because you can remove the spring tension they are good for storing over long periods of time. However try storing a regular box fed magazine for a long period of time and you will wear out the spring in the magazine.
@@TDONLEY91 no you wont. thats not how springs work. Springs in a box mag wear in compression cycles, fully load or unload makes no difference. HOWEVER shitty mags left loaded can mess up the feed lips from the tension under them when fully loaded. Moral is dont buy shit mags and you can keep them fully loaded.
Having tension on a spring does not hurt them adding and releasing tension allot however does but if you don't want yours loaded then that your preference. Other than that great vid and thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the great vid. Made loading my new drum easy.
I swear I could smell the freshly mown lawn when watching this video.
Good video. Very clear and to the point.
Usually the creep load (which is the kind of load where the material loses strength when it's elastically deformed), won't make your spring wear out. The pressure required is many times more than what the cartridge is going to put on it and it usually happens at much, much higher temperatures than what your magazine is going to be exposed to. Generally springs in magazines also won't suffer from fatigue, the cyclic loading and unloading of the spring. It would take a very large amount of cycles of unloading and loading the magazine, probably many more than you'll ever put on it, before the spring even starts to cause you problems.
tl;dr just keep your mags loaded, it'll be fine.
Great tutorial. The instructions have a bad picture of where the follower goes. I got bit too then I found this video thanks bro.
Thanks for the vid...I just ordered one for my AK47
2011: $100
2022: $260
Ammo: a small fortune
I went with same style drum but a 100 rnd mag for an mak 90.. good tips in general on spring tention precautions and general follower placement tips and releasing spring tention when starting or on stored mags . note ; It may be filled but its not loaded till have propper tention to fire . How to know exactly the full turns needed is look see how many times the follower revolves in the tracks and prehaps a 1/2 to 3/4 even 1 turn more for proper tention on last round. Do not over tention that spring. Get a dowel to shove each round out of the mag lips like the bolt would as a test to be sure you understand how and if you loaded the mag and tention correctly when learning OR retesting your reload mag skills BEFORE going to the range .
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Wow! This was amazing! Thank you x 1000s! The drum I got had HORRIBLE instructions. Good old YT university to the rescue!
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The last four cartridges you loaded are behind the follower. Will they feed into the neck of the magazine?
Just picked up a Romanian one. Thanks for the video.
Great video!!! It helped me load my mag perfectly. As for all the complaints, FUGG THEM!! You didn't have to take your time to do it, but you did. SALUTE!!! Some ######fugz will find fault with any and everything. Thanks again.
I am from Romania :) feels good that someone knows some things
I’m thinking about getting one. Also some 10rd magazines for home defense/plinking
Great vid man, I watched 3 vids before yours and almost lost a finger haha. +1 to you.
Your video and technique has worked better than any I have seen yet. Haha I got clipped as well. Bleeding on your new drum is not cool. I was wondering, when I got clipped it bent the follower and is not malfing at around 15 or 20 rounds. Failure to feeds, got any idea why that might be? And what happened to yours when yours slipped on you? Thanks
Thanks so much man. I watched other videos and they all only showed you how to load 73, and still said they got 75 in, haha. I guess alot of people don't count their bullets.
Awesome video! One question, what do you recommend using to clean the grease on first use please?
Thank you for your video! $100 in 2011 now they're way more lol
Nosferatujuggalo just bought one for $99 on primary arms
@@kay_loco I would have to buy one from a gun store and it's not worth it here in California
Nosferatujuggalo truuuu
Thank you so much man. I had given up on trying to use my drum but you just saved it for me. Imma try to shoot it Monday to see if I can get it to function appropriately. My first time I cut up my fingers and it only shot 40 rounds. (Mine didn't come with instructions)
Thanks alot for this much more detailed video helped me out alot.
I use a shit ton of Tul ammo for target shooting. The ammo is dirty and produces a fireball but it's cheap and fairly accurate in my converted SAIGA.
Curious why the final rounds didnt.seem to.follow the placement of the other rounds
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! I DIDN'T EVEN GET ANY INSTRUCTIONS WITH MY MAGAZINE!!! Mine says, "Made in Korea" on it!
Excellent video. Just bought 2 of these mags and came with no instructions whatsoever. Would've been difficult for me to figure out the proper way to load mag.
Thanks!
Thanks man just got three, how’s it holding up after 6 years?
thanks for the help. after watching closely i realized the guide on mine was bent straight not allowing the rounds to feed properly. my drum is new so others may have this same problem.
GREAT video mayne!! Its very clear instructions on how to load this drum.. Now that its loaded its time to have some fun.. lol..
Good video - thanks! I have a Chinese style drum which I bought from a friend. It has no markings on it. How do I know where it was made?
Why do you advise skipping over the single holes when loading only ten rounds, or when initially filling the tower?
Ive been hearing lately that keeping a stick mag loaded doesn't actually hurt the spring at all idk how it works with the circular spring in a drum but can we crack this once and for all
on the drums you don't leave it with the spring wound up. you only crank up the spring when you get ready to shoot it. as for the banana mags keeping them loaded doesn't wear on the springs springs wear out by compressing and decompressing of the springs over time.
This video was awesome! Thank you!!
that ammo looks like TUL AMMO, its the cheapest I've found at walmart... have you had any issues with it? besides it being dirty as hell?
Also, I just noticed that you loaded that segment right under the loading tower and it's behind the follower. Will this cause the mag to jam? I'm pretty sure that those rounds won''t even fire.
Great Video. I just got the same drum today. I had one question though. When I put in a regular ak mag it snaps into place, and I have to use the mag release latch to get the mag out. When I put the drum in, it doesn't latch like a mag, and I can unmount it by just pulling on the drum. I don't get that solid latch like a stock mag. Do you think I have a defective drum , or is this normal?
great video, made it easy to understand!
Thanks man! Appreciate it, just got this same one in today!
Good video and advice 👍👌👏
Constant Spring tension doesn’t degrade the spring only constant travel will eventually destroy the spring.
Awesome instructions on how to load this magazine up.
%20 of the video *talking about the mag*
%80 of the video ( *UH* ) ( *UM* )
Inaccurate
Yes there were many uhms but 80% of the video isnt uhms
@@Sutobuto .....uhm.... it's a joke
Great demonstration
How much extra weight does it add with the 75 round drum ?? My AK is already heavy as hell with Troy industries rail and scopes. It’s gotta weight 11 pounds lol. Those drum mags look like they can be a pain in the ass
Good video bro. I would have no idea how to use these, so its awesome to watch this. I hope to eventually get one. (Some day)
Cheers friend.
10 years later did you ever get one brother!!
question on the last 2 slots you only had 4 rounds in those why ? when all the others held 6
It would be cool if you could show us a video to take it apart and clean it
just real quick, Springs dont wear out from resting compressed. they wear from usage. which is why your car's suspension doesn't wear out from being at rest for years but only from usage. you could keep that mag charged and hot to rock for ages. just as long as you didn't keep charging and discharging that spring.
Can you make video how to load it the LEFT way?
Good video. I have 1 correction. The manufacturer instructions call for 7 complete turns. Your video says 4.
I pushed the button to release the tension, heard a pop, it's still tight. Why is mine not all free floating loose like the video?
If it is behind the follower, they won't be loaded. If they are in front of the follower (the follower 'follows' the rounds ;] ), they will be. The cylinder that pushes the wheel/rounds forward (the follower) is hinged, so it will go up the neck to push the last rounds in to the receiver.
you don't have to worry about spring tension on traditional 30 round mags. load them up and forget.
do you twist it until you cant anymore?
Yeah you don't need to count the turns... Turn it until you can't anymore. He said not to load any cartridges into the little single slots near the edge when doing whatever he was doing. Do it anyway, that's how the drum was made to be used.
either I somehow fucked something up or I'm a wizard because I got 76 loaded into that drum. Either way it's ridiculously heavy and I love It! just need full auto capabilities and a herd of wild hogs.
Jack Deatherage I also got 76. The more the merrier!!
Same bro gonna go play lotto lol
I have a feed problem with mine every 7 to 10 rounds. Any idea what causes that?
may be a problem with your ak