M&P 9MM - Magazine Spring

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Hi All,

I bought some snap caps the other day to do some practice reloading, unloading, dry firing with my M&P 9MM, however it was incredibly difficult to load. This is my first pistol. Does anyone have any recommendations to help break in the magazine spring in order for the reloading to become a littler less difficult?

Cheers!
 
Mine also has quite stiff springs in the factory mags. I use an Maglula uplula speedloader which makes it much easier and faster to load.
 
UpLULA and shoot it a lot.

If you have difficulty loading the last (10th) round you can try this "fix" (YMMV):

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I left mine loaded for awhile and it’s easier to load them by hand now, the 10th round especially. I use the uplula when I’m feeling like a break, you cal sand the follower legs down a bit if you want a diy fix. I wouldn’t cut the springs if it was me.
 
Dont cut the spring. Its stiff and tight for a good reason, do not second guess the manufacturers engineering. Or do, but dont be whiny when the spring doesnt push the cartridge up fast enough for the slide to take it into the chamber one day

If it seems tough, spend more time doing it. Over and over. Eventually you will become better at doing it. A mag loader is great if you dont want to go that route, like a few posters here have mentioned.
 
themachinist said:
Dont cut the spring. Its stiff and tight for a good reason, do not second guess the manufacturers engineering. Or do, but dont be whiny when the spring doesnt push the cartridge up fast enough for the slide to take it into the chamber one day

If it seems tough, spend more time doing it. Over and over. Eventually you will become better at doing it. A mag loader is great if you dont want to go that route, like a few posters here have mentioned.
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What this guy said.
Mine's gone 55000+ rounds and not one failure to feed, springs changed every 15,000 rounds whether it's needed or not. Cutting springs causes failure.
 
enefgee said:
What this guy said.
Mine's gone 55000+ rounds and not one failure to feed, springs changed every 15,000 rounds whether it's needed or not. Cutting springs causes failure.
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Are you talking from experience? What failures have you experienced?

I think more issues are caused by the spring and follower being too tight.

I removed the follower legs and cut a coil of mine when i had an m&p and never had an issue.
Many posts about this online.
 
I cut one coil off the spring of my mags and trimmed down the follower a little. Still of course only takes 10 rounds but not like your gonna break something putting in the 10th round like it was before. 4 mags with probably 2000 rounds split between them over 4 years. No issues at all.
 
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