Walther P99 Owners Please Help

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azn_hitman

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hi guys,

i've been looking around for a replacement base plate for my P99 QA in 40 S&W for a while now. i was wondering if anyone can take a picture of their base plate and post it so i can send it to dealers? i only need the base plate and it has to be taken off of the magazine.

thanks a million,
 
Here is the baseplate from a 10 round factory Meggar P99 .40 mag.

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Peter - any pictures of the aluminum baseplates you had made?
 
Here you go....


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I did encounter the following;

It's the strangest thing. Out of 5 mags, I had 3 that jammed up after shooting half a clip. Get this, the followers actually ended up slipping sideways in the mag and the top of the spring got jammed between the now 90*flipped follower and the mag case.
I surmise that I had not seated the follower properly on the top of the spring. When I compressed the mags by loading them to capacity, the combination of recoil and a non-seated spring caused the follower to rotate sideways 90* and therefore cause the top spring coil to try to squeeze thru.
It's the only explanation I have, there's no way that a base could cause this. I think I erred by assembling the mags upside down, therefore not being sure the spring was properly seated in the small recess of the follower.
 
No idea which level of anodizing, but I'll ask the guy who machined 'em.

None of my bases ever broke before either. I dare you to spend an evening at the range slapping them in with the palm of your hand. I can pretty well promise you an unpleasant result :p
 
I never looked into it before, but 2 years ago I was shooting IPSC and dropping one made the baseplate crack. I emailed Walther in the U.S.A. and they said they were willing to send me 2 free baseplates or 2 magazines (my chioce). Last year I had another crack with no stress put on it. By this time I'd say the companys engineers should have revised the drawings to compensate for this drawback. It is the only weak spot I have experienced with the weapon, but if I have no mags when I need one, it may as well be a single shot.
 
Earl of Earl's Guns in the US is adamant that this is a glaring defect which has caused deaths in the US. Again, the issue is only with .40 S&W and if I'm not mistaken, only with the 10 rounders. And to repeat, I broke 4 outta 5 mags within a coupla hours while taking a PPC course. A year of soft-slapping my mags into the pistol before that course never caused any issues.

My modded mags work perfectly, no problems whatsoever. As I had guessed, I improperly assembled them the 1st time around.
 
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