Stainless Steel Stoeger Magazines

[John Sabato]

I would be curious to know just what is different about the latest generation Stainless Steel Lugers that prevents their accepting a vintage Luger magazine? I don't have access to a stainless gun... but if I had to guess, I would think that the new magazines that I have seen were smoothe sided and did not have the rolled sheetmetal joint on each side of the vintage magazines... can anyone confirm this?

Would all that would be necessary to make a current production Stainless Luger accept vintage magazines be a broaching operation on the magazine well to allow the rolled sheetmetal joint to enter the well? Is there enough metal there to support opening the mag well to accept vintage magazines?

Open discussion and submission of photos by owners of both original and stainless guns on this question is highly encouraged by ME.

thanks for listening to this old engineer's wonderings and rambles...