You may need to shave the follower "foot" a hair more. When you insert the mag it has to be able to push the top round down about an 1/8 inch or so before it locks. To make sure you have enough give for this you need to be able to push the top round down at least as far as the top of the mag lips.
M&P 9mm 9 round magazines?
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You may need to shave the follower "foot" a hair more. When you insert the mag it has to be able to push the top round down about an 1/8 inch or so before it locks. To make sure you have enough give for this you need to be able to push the top round down at least as far as the top of the mag lips.
The grey plastic thing at the top of the magazine.
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I just finished conducting a test on the M&P mags. Like many other people, the tenth round is hard to get in the mag. I took one out to make it 9 in the mag. Clicked in with no issues while slide is closed. So, the issue is between the 9th and 10th round. Would i still need to shave the follower or could the mags be warn in with during break-in?
I have only put 300 rounds down range through my M&P9, but the mags have already gotten a bit "looser", and it's a lot easier to load that last round now.
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mine was the same the 10th round is a ##### but they wear in
I hear that!!......kinda, useless IMHO. A candidate for the EE take the loss and go glock. I'm not trying to be a d1<k here. Or perhaps contact Smith and see if they can exchange your mags with ones that, you know...WORK
All 4 of mine have always worked great. I got them in 2008 though. Maybe they are using different springs now and they have more coils and can't compress far enough... Has anyone tried to cut a few coils off? a new maq spring would be that expensive if you screwed one up.
That's because you have the previous version of the mag. The newer version have a ''9'' written on it. It is very hard to fit a 10th round. What I did was to take appart the mag, trim the legs of the follower and assemble it. Voila, now it's much easier to fill a mag completely. I have both version of those mags and I much prefer the previous version. Much easier to load.
I hear that!!......kinda, useless IMHO. A candidate for the EE take the loss and go glock. I'm not trying to be a d1<k here. Or perhaps contact Smith and see if they can exchange your mags with ones that, you know...WORK
I'm tempted... I'll give S&W a call tomorrow and see what they will do about it... but admitting they goofed on these mags means they are admitting they goofed on thousands of mags.
Are you talking about the "9" stamped on the follower? That would mean "9mm", not "9 rounds".
I called S&W this morning for you guys. The guy there, Steve, said that he doesn't understand why everyone is calling in and complaining about only being able to put 9 rds into the 10 rd mag. He said that everytime someone sends them back they have no problems putting in 10 rds. He understands that they are a bit difficult but says that it can be done. He said that the mags are made that way so it is impossible to get 11 rds into the mag. He said try banging the mag on the table a few times after every 4 rds to shift the rds around a bit to see if it works better.
The 10th round is always difficult to get in my M&P but it always goes in. They're not my favorite mags to load thats for sure. In fact often i only load up 7 rounds per mag at the range, this started with the M&P cause i hated putting the last 3 rounds in cause it was hard!
I have now managed to squeeze the 10th round in (only possible with the mag loader) but now the magazine will not seat in the pistol unless the slide is locked back which is ridiculous. This makes it so you cannot shoot CON3 with a full magazine.
I asked S&W about that too this morning and he said that they never have a problem.
