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Originally Posted by 85V65Sabre
Hello, I recently bought a 908S and finely got a chance to take it out to the range.
Although it's a good little shooter I was having trouble inserting the mags. I removed the slide and found that the leading edge of the feed lip was hitting the frame. With a light clockwise twist of the mag they would then slide in.
I just removed the grips to check it out and realized the mag release is putting just enough pressure on the mag to cause it to hit the frame. If it didn't have that cheep plastic press on mag button I would just back off the nut a few turns.
Anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this issue?
This is where it hits the frame,
By the looks of the scrape in the mag well this has been happening for a while.
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Hi,Sabre! How are the twins?
Re: Your mag problem. Allow me to share some observations.
1: The 908S was built on CNC machines by craftsmen who were by then knowledgeable and experienced on these machines, so unless a previous owner "did a bubba" on the magazine well with a file or dremel (to facilitate "faster reloads") it should be dimensionally correct and require no modification.
2: The mag catch is a MIM part and (the opinions of luddites notwithstanding) we all know how dimensionally accurate those parts are. Do not do anything to change the spring tension. All that will do is make the mags fall out.
3: In your second picture, the red follower in that unloaded mag seems to be protruding so far out of the top of the mag body that most of the front leg on the follower is visible through the slide stop cut out.
None of my single stack 39 series 1st, 2nd, or 3rd gen mags allow the followers to stick out that far.
What keeps the followers in place?
The feed lips.
While I can't say for sure if yours have been modified, I think you should lay your hands on some known good mags (and ideally a known good pistol) and do some swapping to see if the problem follows the mag(s) or the pistol.
Then we'll know for sure.
BTW, the edge on the mag that is bumping into the frame is not vital to feeding like the lips are so armorer951's suggestion to slightly bend in that edge would probably cause no feeding problems.
John