Euclidean

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Team American

Euc, notice the elongated dimple just above the magazine well in this photo....I'm pretty sure that it indicates that this is a milled (not stamped) receiver. Stamped receivers have a much smaller dimple in the same general area to indicate a pre-ban configuration that will accept 30 round magazines.

Just thought you would like to know the difference

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rfurtkamp

The dimple has *nothing* to do with pre-ban configuration.

It's there to stabilize the magazine in the well in the standard AKM design.

Pre-ban, post-ban, etc. means nothing to the Russian military.

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P95Carry

Dimple - what dimple! Oh - that dimple

Robert - point taken re milled - I was under a misapprehension that milled was better.

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Team American

You are correct about that, rfurtkamp....I look for the dimple to indicate that the receiver was originally manufactured to accept full size magazines. In your experience, is the WASR (or even the SAR-1) the only AK47 that doesn't have the stabilizing dimple in the receiver? Is the lack of a dimple a reliable indicator that the rifle was made for single stack magazines?

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rfurtkamp

SAR-x has the dimple - they were native high-cap receivers.

The lack of a dimple doesn't mean much on a milled receiver, and I'm sure there are going to be exceptions on stamped guns too.

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