jeffadaklin said:
I have had an occasional problem when I get to 16 or 17 rounds..neglected to mention that. I have trouble inserting the mag all the way with 17- again, sometimes- but that doesn't bother me enough to make me DO anything about it.
It seems that all high capacity mags have problems loading out to full capacity. I guess because the spring has to be strong enough to function at the longer length, and so it resists compressing to the extent necessary to load the full capacity. I guess there is a "sweet spot" at which the mag becomes broken in enough to load fully and function, before it becomes too worn to function reliably.
My usual practice, especially on higher capacity mags, is to load them down one or two...on these 17 round mags, for example, I will probably load 15 in them. It does make it easier to load them, and to insert them in the pistol, and I don't worry too much about spring compression that way as well. Besides, if I have 11 rounds in the pistol initially (10 + 1) plus two 15 round mags as back up, I think I am covered...if 41 rounds won't take care of the trouble I am in, I doubt that 4 more rounds would make all that much difference (if I had loaded them both to 17 rounds, that is) !!!! :shock: :lol: