Ron Wood - Dutch Mag Question...

[Ron Wood]

Pete,
I am not sure if DWM made any of the Dutch magazines. Perhaps DWM furnished the initial mag tubes and bases, but very probably most of the surviving Dutch magazine bases were the product of the GS. According to Martens & de Vries, all parts of the magazine except the body and follower were eventually made by the GS. Of the 9 Dutch magazines that I have, most of them have that one-sided shape to a greater or lesser extent. I suspect that the variations among them are due to a combination of wear and/or individual machining. There are also minute differences in the shape of the retaining spring tips and the recesses in which they are fitted. I would venture a guess that the GS employed a lot of hand work in their fabrication (that certainly is evident in the GS made grips).