How To Load the Magazine

Vlim · 02-26-2009, 05:37 PM

The magazines that came with the postwar Mauser Parabellum were not very good. Try using a MecGar as an alternative magazine. I never got my Mauser Parabellum magazines to function at all and basically gave up on them

There is quite a lot of reference to the lack of quality of early Magazines in the Mauser archives of the 1970s. The magazines were produced by a Dutch company that had quite some trouble getting things correct.

When Mauser tested several ammunition brands around 1970-71 they found that Winchester performed well, but that the toggle would not always stay open after the last shot. I've observed the same with the Winchester 115gr 9x19 and a 1937 Mauser. Wouldn't worry about it.

02-26-2009, 05:37 PM	#5
Vlim Moderator Lifetime LugerForum Patron Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Europe Posts: 5,053 Thanks: 1,036 Thanked 3,990 Times in 1,205 Posts	The magazines that came with the postwar Mauser Parabellum were not very good. Try using a MecGar as an alternative magazine. I never got my Mauser Parabellum magazines to function at all and basically gave up on them There is quite a lot of reference to the lack of quality of early Magazines in the Mauser archives of the 1970s. The magazines were produced by a Dutch company that had quite some trouble getting things correct. When Mauser tested several ammunition brands around 1970-71 they found that Winchester performed well, but that the toggle would not always stay open after the last shot. I've observed the same with the Winchester 115gr 9x19 and a 1937 Mauser. Wouldn't worry about it.