I am getting an M&P 9mm next week. I've heard that the last couple rounds are a b#t@h to load. I thought i read somewhere that people have snipped a little off the spring to allow for easier loading. ADMINS...im not asking about loading more than 10 rounds, just making the 10 easier to load!!
M&P Mags
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is it difficult to remove? Don't have the gun yet to lookDon't touch the spring.
What you want to do is remove the follower, and sand the bottom of it down a few millimetres. Make it look like this, and you will be good to go. Again, don't touch the spring.
Nope, super easy. Disassemble the magazine, and then just twist the follower a bit to remove it from the spring. You can use needle-nose pliers if you want to pull the spring out of its hole on the follower. Place a piece of sand paper on a table, and move the follower in circles on the sand paper to keep the edges even and level. Remove material until you can no longer see the curves at the front and back of the follower, as shown in the picture. It's about a 3 minute job, and basically required to be able to load 10.
I run 17 pinned to 10 magazines now, but I did this with all of my 10 round magazines.
I run 17 pinned to 10 magazines now, but I did this with all of my 10 round magazines.
Great!! Thanks!!!!
edit: oops reply wasmeant for another thread, but works just as wall here an it's not too bad a necro post, so I'll leave it here.
loaders are great for loading, but don't do anything for functionality. I have 2 mags that were a real fight to get the tenth round in by hand and still a chore with a loader. Figuring I'd work them in and put them in the rotation during a match was a huge fail on my behalf. If you cant compress the spring by hand, you can pretty much bet that you will have troubles getting it to seat properly on a tactical reload. Lesson learned. Thing about mags is they should not compress all the way to bottoming out on the floor plate for that exact reason. if you're fully bottoming out sanding the follower will achieve nothing. Choices then are hope they break in and suffer or clip half a coil off the spring.
loaders are great for loading, but don't do anything for functionality. I have 2 mags that were a real fight to get the tenth round in by hand and still a chore with a loader. Figuring I'd work them in and put them in the rotation during a match was a huge fail on my behalf. If you cant compress the spring by hand, you can pretty much bet that you will have troubles getting it to seat properly on a tactical reload. Lesson learned. Thing about mags is they should not compress all the way to bottoming out on the floor plate for that exact reason. if you're fully bottoming out sanding the follower will achieve nothing. Choices then are hope they break in and suffer or clip half a coil off the spring.
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Leave your new mags fully loaded for a couple of weeks and the springs will take a set. I have several generations of M&P 10 round mags and haven't touched the followers - I would never under any circumstances clip any gun spring, guns that don't work are dangerous.
I have trimmed one coil from the spring and removed material on the followers on all but one of my mags (kept as a base line), my mags have worked perfectly for over 10000 rounds like this. All of my mags are S&W. Tenth round is tight but doable bare hands.
That isn't how spring work. They work in by being cycled, not be being left in the loaded position.
You're confusing taking a set with wearing out - 2 totally different things. A new spring will shorten slightly when first loaded (take a set), the pressure will then be constant. A spring will wear out due to compression cycles, at which point the pressure it produces will drop.
yeah, yeah...this!
