[G.T.]

Hello to all! Patrick has been pretty much correct on his previous posts, but there a few additions I would like to share...first I have seen both, pinned or repaired, and original, with no modifications at all. The pinned variation are in the vast majority of all Dutch mags that I have seen, which isn't that many!!......most will have a single pin through the front part of the mag, although I have occasionally seen Dutch mag's with two pins, the second being installed through the spring area, where, the original spring retainer had probably failed....The only way you can tell that it is original is that the rear retaining hole is usually not located the same as a regular P.08 mag....Almost every spring, in all the mags, were broken, which I think, was the reason for the repair or modification in the first place....The spring is a complicated little devel, in that it is made in such a way that a pin holds it in the upper part of the rear of the mag. bottom, this holds the bottom to the spring! Then on the rear spine of the mag, there is a rectangular notch in which a folded part of the spring snaps into.....nothing that is visable, has any part of the retaining function...This also is why the spring failed, many sharp bends and complex forming....doomed from the start!! Almost all of these mag's exhibited another similar trait, the wood was very dark, and showed a lot of use.....hope it this helps!! till...later....G.T.