Mystery Magazine

[Aaron]

Anyone know what this may fit?

Thanks!

[Mk42gunner]

My bet is one of the newer Rugers. It looks an awful lot like the magazine for a Ruger LCP Max, only a whole lot longer.

No idea as to which model though.

Robert

[Aaron]

My bet is one of the newer Rugers. It looks an awful lot like the magazine for a Ruger LCP Max, only a whole lot longer.

No idea as to which model though.

Robert

Very similar. Thanks for the guess. This one is definitely longer overall, and single stack section. Trying to remember if HK had something like this.

[edp2k]

https://www.primerpeak.com/the-hk-vp...-handgun-2022/

[JRD]

I don't know what it is, but I'd rule out it being anything "new". One- the mag has a bit of a worn look to my eye, and two- it has a formed sheet metal floorplate. Most new pistol on the market that I've seen use plastic floorplates now.
Second, we can definitely rule out the HK VP70 because that was a double stack, double feed mag.
This mag is unusually proportioned because it's a double stack, single feed, with an unusually long section of single stack at the top of the mag.
I've found the mag is similar in form to a Makarov PMM, but I don't believe it's a PMM mag. Perhaps its something similar of Eastern Block heritage.

I don't know what it is, but someone on the board will see this post eventually and know exactly what it is.

[Aaron]

Thank you for your thoughts! I agree, I think it is older and someone here will know what it is.

[edp2k]

Second, we can definitely rule out the HK VP70 because that was a double stack, double feed mag.

You are correct; I stand corrected
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...guns-hk-vp70z/

[JRD]

Given my suspicion of Comm Block origin, this mystery makes me miss Hognose from the Weaponsman Blog. He was a former SF soldier who specialized in Czech weapons but had a very wide knowledge of Eastern European arms (and much more) in general. He was a witty, brilliant writer and historian too. This spring will make six years he's been gone.

Aaron, do you have any context on where the mag came from?

[JRD]

Aaron,
I should have asked this right from the get go: Are there any markings on the magazine? Can you tell what cartridge its for? I suggest trying 9mm Makarov and 9mm Luger. What's the capacity of what does fit?

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Perhaps a Llama Omni III.

DG

[2152hq]

llama Omni Hi Capacity as DG says.