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Originally Posted by Ray M
My Shield .45 was back at S&W for over 6 weeks, and all they did was replace both mag followers. I'm taking it out today, but I have a hard time believing I just happened to have 2 bad mag followers causing mag drops. What exactly was wrong with the original followers? Bad lot? Bad design? My guess is I'm gonna be dropping mags today, but maybe oversized followers were hitting the mag catch. I'll see today and report back. Sorry for the skepticism, but this is my first experience with a S&W product, and I'm seeing too many posts with this particular problem with many people on their 3rd return to the factory. Hoping I am not on the same track.
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Ray, I hear you. I think the root of the problem is they need a stiffer magazine catch spring. The wire that is the spring is too easily moved. Not enough left pressure. I did look at modifying the spring but as it is integrated into the frame I looked at modifying the cheap parts.
Hopefully, they worked out your issue. As I mentioned above, I think it is a combo of things that cause the release. Seems to have worked on mine. Let us know how it goes.