Mec Gar Mags are Short?

Vboy · 07-23-2004, 07:25 PM

Three mags came with my Luger. Two were seven round blued mags with wooden bottoms and no marks of origin. The third was a very old nickeled mag. I had no jams with these mags. Then I got some new eight round Mec Gar mags, nickel and blued. Then I started having jams and failures to load. Sometimes no round would be stripped from the mag and loaded into the chamber. Today I compared the mags that worked, with a Mec Gar. The Mec Gar doesn't lock in as high as the other one. There is some play between the bottom of the mag and the bottom of the grip. The round doesn't seem to sit as high between the mag lips. I think the Mec Gar mags are slightly off spec and do not allow the round to sit high enough to be stripped consistently by the action of the slide. Comments?

Thanks,

Vboy

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07-23-2004, 07:25 PM	#1
Vboy User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Tennessee Posts: 35 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Mec Gar Mags are Short? Three mags came with my Luger. Two were seven round blued mags with wooden bottoms and no marks of origin. The third was a very old nickeled mag. I had no jams with these mags. Then I got some new eight round Mec Gar mags, nickel and blued. Then I started having jams and failures to load. Sometimes no round would be stripped from the mag and loaded into the chamber. Today I compared the mags that worked, with a Mec Gar. The Mec Gar doesn't lock in as high as the other one. There is some play between the bottom of the mag and the bottom of the grip. The round doesn't seem to sit as high between the mag lips. I think the Mec Gar mags are slightly off spec and do not allow the round to sit high enough to be stripped consistently by the action of the slide. Comments? Thanks, Vboy (Message Thread Subject corrected by admin in response to the desire of the thread originator -JS)