I am not fond of the red follower magazines either. I think the springs are the same though. I have ordered enough black plastic followers from Brownell to replace all of my red follower mags. Some have arrived the rest are on back order.
The ones that I have “upgraded” from 12rds to 10rds seem to have corrected the problems I was having. My diagnosis is too much tension on the first rounds in the 12rd mags..

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