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Old 05-22-2018, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rwsmith View Post
Give it a solid smack. I've taken to doing this all the time, but especially for defense guns. If you try to 'push' the mag into place until it locks, that ain't got it. Give it a smack. You'll be amazed how trouble will go away.
This. I lost many seconds in an IDPA match this past weekend when I did not smack the magazine into the gun hard. I had pushed it in (what I thought was) hard, but in fact it hadn't gone fully into locked position. The mag catch spring tension held the mag so that it looked like it was seated, but it actually wasn't in far enough for the slide to pick up a round.

Lesson learned (I hope.)
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