Some years back I wanted a military rifle in a semi-auto format. But, I was not happy with the sheet metal receivers of the AK47's. At that time, they were, however, far and away the most popular Military rifles selling. They were inexpensive and plentiful. Yes, you can fill an "AK" with mud and it will still shoot. However, this was not something I was planning on doing to any of my rifles or pistols even if I could.

Owning several "bolt action" style  military type rifles, I wanted to stick with a milled receiver for my new acquisition. All (most anyway) of the semi auto rifles that fit my design parameters were more than what I wanted to spend at the time. I looked at M1A's, FAL's and the AR series platform, the Swedish Ljungman, as well as the Hakeem and Rasheed. But alas, I'm a cheap basta*d. So, I started reading and researching what was available that fit my pocketbook. None of the above rifles fit the cost factor.

Low and behold, the SKS reared it's beautiful head. It seemed to have all I was looking for in that coveted military rifle. It was inexpensive (at the time anyway), semi auto, battle proven, ammo was plentiful and cheap and there were all kinds of "add-ons" available from the after market guys.

I grabbed one up. I bought a, I believe to be an unfired, numbers matching, Yugo, M59/66 covered in that wonderful gunk we love called "cosmo". Two days of cleaning and I was off to the range.

The rifle shot beautifully. Little recoil, easy to handle, but, immediately I discovered that I hated the internal magazine system. Oh, it worked just fine, but, I didn't like it. I wanted detachable mags. My Swedish Mauser M96 can be loaded with stripper clips. I didn't like it on that rifle and I didn't like it on the SKS either. Besides, 10 rounds just isn't enough in a semi-auto military rifle is it?

I took my SKS to the next gun show to fit mags to her. I tried about 100 different metal mags and none would fit correctly. This guy was walking by and says, "how much for that SKS"? I say, "she is brand new, not for sale. By the way, do you know which mags work best in an SKS"? He says, "TAPCO 20's ONLY". I purchased 3 at that show. That was all I could fine.

Several Tapco mags later I was back at the range. NOW THIS IS A MILITARY RIFLE, I told myself. Hmm, how can "IT" be improved even more? Additional homework and study resulted in a TapcoT6 evil black stock, spring loaded firing pin from Murray's, (we don't want any slam fires), American made gas piston and tube from Tapco, cleaned up the "front end", added a AR style flash hider, American made parts for the FCG, drilled and tapped the side of the receiver for a Weaver #1 scope mount and she is 922r compliant. It was ALMOST what I wanted.

I still did not like the "duckbill" mag system. Every other military rifle I looked at DID NOT have that cumbersome duckbill. With all the other "stuff" available for the SKS "someone" surely has developed a duck-bill-less magazine? Well, kinda, but not really.

Everything I looked at was "iffy" at best, did not work to my satisfaction or was so costly I wasn't going to try it. 85.00 for a single mag was just, well, to much to pay. After all, Tapco mags are about 15-16.00. Work supremely well and I can have 6 Tapco mags for 90.00. Man, that's a no brainer. I told myself, "you are a smart guy, build one the way you want it".

SO, I decided to build something around the Tapco manufactured mags. They worked the best for me, easy to modify and were priced friendly. I never intended to take this to market so I didn't consider how this adapter would interface with "other" mags. I was simply going to build one for me, to do what I wanted it to do and I was going to use Tapco mags only.

I showed it to a friend, another SKS owner and he said, "I WANT ONE TOO, I'll pay you to make me one". What I showed him was far and away NOT this adapter. That first one required some stock relief, and additional other minor changes. The biggest drawback was the cost to make. See the picture above of the first working adapter. I realized then I could not use that system. It was made specifically for the TapcoT6 stock and no other. I didn't want to limit my market share.

Back to the drawing boards. I had to come up with something that could be used with ANY stock or I would reduce my "buying public" to unacceptable numbers. So here we are. This adapter was 24 months in development. It works perfectly. You can mount it with simple hand tools in less than an hour. The secret to it working correctly is that it is adjustable. It has a "tuning" screw that adjusts the bullet feed angle. NONE of the other adapters have that ability.

Marcus