Follower in a Luger magazine
 

Did Mauser or an other company ever produced a magazine with a plastic follower?
Thanks,
Andy

Andy, I would be interested in others opinions, but I personally have never seen an original or aftermarket Luger magazine with a plastic follower,

Hey John, after looking at one or two Luger Magazines, I totally agree with you. But why wouldn't I !!!:D

Andy, The current Triple K production mags have a plastic (Nylon?) mag follower. It works a lot smoother than the cast aluminum one that they used years ago. TH

Thanks for the confirmation Frank! But I think you left a word out of your post. After the words "one or two" in Frank's post should appear the word "THOUSAND" since I know he has probably examined that many Luger magazines in his lifetime...

Lugerdoc, I had not even considered the Triple-K mags... I haven't seen one of the newer ones with a plastic follower, but I have never really liked their mags since they only hold 7 rounds instead of the standard 8 rounds like the originals.

Thanks all,
the base and the follower are made from black plastic.
This mag has no markings but holds 8 rounds. So it is not a tripple k mag?
The mag is in a much better shape (blueing) than the gun.
Must be a newer production.

This mag came with the luger when I bought it. The original mag was missing.

I have another mag with a wooden base and the mauser banner on the rear side. I guess this a post war production, too.
The tool has a mauser banner stamped on it, too.

I am a novice vis-a-vis Lugers. My father in law left me two from his gun collection recently, and I am trying to find out what they are worth. I have 6-10 photos of each (a 1918 dated Luger and a 1938 Luger). Is there someone out there who can take a look at these photos and provide me with an assessment?
RER

John S, Since few, if any, of us are using our PO8s in combat, why try to load the maximum in your mag? Just a good way to loosen it's bottom and possibly lead to feeding failures. TH

Over here we are limited to 5 rounds per mag for training and 6 during military pistol training, so the 7 or 8 round limit doesn't disturb me that much.

I do prefer the looks of the MecGar to those of the Triple-K, however.

btw. a used 9mm case makes a great follower. :)

I do not know if this counts.

But my Mitchell luger magazines have a plastic follower.
Easy to ID they have a stainless body and a wood bottom.

Interesting fact. For some reason regular luger magazines will not lock into the Mitchell luger,but the Mitchell mag works in everything!
Have you Mitchell owners noticed this?

Vim & Bob, I to have seen an emply 9mm casing used as a mag SPRING GUIDE that pushes up the follower. The early Mitchell/Stoeger stainless wood bottomed mag were made by Triple K. I also perfer the MecGar mag, but they don't make one with a wood bottom, that some folk want. TH

Tom,

Oops, thanks for correcting. I was referring to the follower guide, of course :o

For those with Mauser Parabellum magazines: The follower guide is usually brass. If, by any chance, it is of an aluminum color/texture (the guide, not the follower, ahem), the chance is there that the follower guide has been made from a modified NWM head stamped 9x19 aluminum blank.

Tom must be reading my mind!(what little of it there is)

I took apart this Portuguese??? magazine I bought that has a broken follower and it had one of those aluminum tubes on the end of the spring. It looks made for the task,its not a shell casing.

Went and looked at my other mags and found another one with the same spring guide.

I was wondering about this!:thumbup: