I cannot speak about the spring situation, but c'mon, think about it: A Luger mag, non-Haenel style has two angled cuts, they are not the same angle, but their angles swing in the same direction off the perpendicular. Lay a couple end-to-end, in sequence, and you will see that it would actually eat up more material to accommodate a straight cut! Optimal material saving accomplished if the angles of cuts, in succession, is alternated; in this arrangement the only drops would be a piece from each end of the length of tube stock. This approach would work for either style of mag to save material.
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