Received My Suomi Drums from Clearview

[renovate7]

I bought 3. Excellent condition. Looks like very little use, insides look new. Not matching numbers.

 

[marks]

I purchased from Clearview the first of this year and was pleased as well. They were in excellent condition and as advertised.

Also, my Max10/31 was in the same batch as yours. In fact, it's out for delivery today via USPS. VERY stoked and looking forward to receiving the upper!

 

[Vegas SMG]

https://www.clearviewinvest.com/

 

[Walksalone]

Don’t own a 31 but bought 1 drum. Hoarding in a time of crisis.

 

[Pinkerton]

Hi,

Will the 36 round Suomi stick magazines work in the Max31K?

Thank you,

Pinkerton OUT!

 

[Donut77donut]

No

 

[Vegas SMG]

Suomi Drums, 50 round coffin magazines, and Zmags, are all single feed. The 36 rounds stick mags are double feed and will not function in the ‘31 series of uppers.

 

[renovate7]

Is anybody using the coffin mags? Do they work well? Been my experience the double stack single feed mags can have issues.

 

[Jmacken37]

The coffin mags work unless you have a broken spring. Be sure to get a loader.

 

[Gaujo]

Coffin mags work, but there has never been a scenario where it really made sense to pick it. Some matches limit you to 30 round mags, so you might as well use Zmag-S magazines, and if not, you might as well use drums. Definitly just a cool thing to have though.

 

[3S1K]

Coffin mags work, but there has never been a scenario where it really made sense to pick it. Some matches limit you to 30 round mags, so you might as well use Zmag-S magazines, and if not, you might as well use drums. Definitly just a cool thing to have though.

Ahhh that makes sense. I was wondering why the Zmag-s aren't a 50rd like the coffins are.

I do have 2 coffins as an option but I wouldn't buy any more considering the Zmag-S are out now.

 

[DistalRadius]

FYI, coffin mags are quad-stack, Zmags are double stack. (Both are single feed.)

 

[Scott C.]

Are good suomi drums really selling for $105? What are matching ones going for?

 

[Hey...]

Don’t own a 31 but bought 1 drum. Hoarding in a time of crisis.

Me too. Bought 3 nice ones for $250 in the classified here and I don’t own one yet because Lage hasn’t built a 31k for the M11/9.

I’m almost settled on buying a 31, buying a replacement 31k barrel from Lage, then cutting the front down and tapping to refit the front plate. Bam! 31k for my m11/9.

 

[rhouston8]

I remember dealing w Bugsy. Strange dude. I sold him maybe 500? Suomi drums back then. I still have the container shipping customs invoice/tape listing port of Antwerp as origin. I bought 3 pallets/crates full from the old Vector Arms cache. They had been sitting in a warehouse in SLC for a decade+ at the time. And yeah I wish I still had them. Liquidated then way to cheaply ! I think I have about 80 left on hand but they aren’t for sale. Anyway that’s some backstory for y’all.

 

[JohnFreeman]

Interesting to know the story behind these.

Did all of that bubble of Suomi drums come from that Vector supply? I got some from Vegas that'll keep me busy for a while. Seems like there were only a few...then a glut, now again, just a few.

Such are the fates of surplus gun stuff.

 

[stevo]

Coffin mags work great in the 31 upper. I have the MKII upper. My coffins fit securely and function 100%. Get em now while you can. There’s a member on the boards here that has them for around 120.00ish.....maybe less.

 

[Tony-Ri]

Since Clearview is closed due to the current unpleasantness, anyone have grade 3 drums for sale around their $65 price? I only have 5 for my Max 31, and I think this might be it for the cheap drums.