A minor mystery for Team 3rd Gen...

[TTSH]

I think Tom 45 has the correct answer 12 or 15 5900 series spacer for Kel Tec

They may be to adapt the Model 59 magazines to fit the KelTec P11. My daughter has a 59 mag with an adapter for her P11.

Yep! It appears the mystery is solved! Thank you!

 

[elm_creek_smith]

Bingo!!! You got it!!! Thank you!



Now, I have to try to buy a P-11!

At least you won't go broke buying one! I hate the trigger on my daughter's P11, but she doesn't seem to mind it. I have some M59 mags for my Model 469, now all I need are the adapters.

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[BlackTalonJHP]

Yes you'll have to buy a Kel Tec P11 and a Marlin Model 9 and a Daewoo DP-51.

 

[TTSH]

At least you won't go broke buying one! I hate the trigger on my daughter's P11, but she doesn't seem to mind it.

Yes you'll have to buy a Kel Tec P11 and a Marlin Model 9 and a Daewoo DP-51.

I guess I didn't know what kind of trouble I was getting into buying those mags!

And, of course, the P-11 is not on our MA approved handgun roster.

 

[elm_creek_smith]

I guess I didn't know what kind of trouble I was getting into buying those mags! [emoji14]



And, of course, the P-11 is not on our MA approved handgun roster.

That's a shame. My brother paid about $200.00 for my daughter's as a graduation present. It likes Winchester 115 gr Silvertips. Heavier ammo nosedives into the feed ramp.

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[TTSH]

That's a shame. My brother paid about $200.00 for my daughter's as a graduation present. It likes Winchester 115 gr Silvertips. Heavier ammo nosedives into the feed ramp.

Researching on-line, I see they have continued to go up in price. Funny since almost all plastic guns tend to go down in price over time. Very strange.

 

[Jeppo]

Researching on-line, I see they have continued to go up in price. Funny since almost all plastic guns tend to go down in price over time. Very strange.

Only going up in price 'cause you bought the magazines. Karma.

 

[TTSH]

Only going up in price 'cause you bought the magazines. Karma.

Story of my life Jep: buy high and sell low... and its corollary: what I have is going down in value and what I want is going up in value. Of course, I've been trying hard to reverse that by sticking with all-metal guns and avoiding plastic like the plague.

But the truth is I'll probably never own a Kel-Tec P-11 being here in MA, so if someone on the Team has a P-11 and needs these spacers, I'll be happy to pass them on. First refusal goes to Tom 45 for having solved the "what is it" mystery.

 

[Jeppo]

Oh yeah?

Story of my life Jep: buy high and sell low... and its corollary: what I have is going down in value and what I want is going up in value.

Perhaps it'll make you feel better if I recount my latest buy high/sell low gun transaction.

I bought a 915 a year or so ago and almost immediately regretted it, only because it had a rough life which was "corrected" by a previous owner with the same kind of enamel he'd probably been sniffing. A better example dropped into my lap the other day so I put the original 915 up for sale on a local board. I agonized over what to ask but decided I'd probably be satisfied if I came out whole, considering I'd never even bothered to shoot it.

The "I'll take it" PM arrived 2 minutes after I posted the listing and within an hour or so there were two more "Wish I'd seen this first" posts.

 

[tom 45]

Thanks for the offer but you shouldn't give up on the P-11.

I found one at Collector's a while back for $350 (pre ban).
It was stainless steel so I didn't want to shoot it too much, well don't you know a few months later they had another one.
I figured I'd buy the second one to shoot and keep the stainless one to carry. When I got there the second one was stainless steel also! Now I have 2 stainless steel P-11s.

Thanks again for the offer but, I'm all set.

 

[TTSH]

Thanks for the offer but you shouldn't give up on the P-11.

I found one at Collector's a while back for $350 (pre ban).
It was stainless steel so I didn't want to shoot it too much, well don't you know a few months later they had another one.
I figured I'd buy the second one to shoot and keep the stainless one to carry. When I got there the second one was stainless steel also! Now I have 2 stainless steel P-11s.

Thanks again for the offer but, I'm all set.

Oh, I'm sure there are a few pre-list (pre-October 21, 1998) P-11's still floating around Massachusetts and coming up for sale from time-to-time. No doubt about that. Can't say that I've been on the lookout for any, but I'm sure I've stumbled upon one here or there in my travels.

And it is interesting that they can use the same magazines as my beloved 9mm double stack 3rd Gens. I absolutely did not know that!

But money is tight this year and I am actually reducing my holdings in plastic so that I can afford more in all-metal.

So I'll open it up to other members of the Team who can make better use of these P-11 magazine collars/sleeves/spacers (whatever they are called) than I can!

If nobody wants them, I'll donate them to science!

 

[Jon651]

... to solve for me. What the heck are these strange collars and why did I find them on these three 6900-series magazines I found?

The gun shop guy said they must be space fillers for using 6900-series magazines in a shorter gripped gun... but there are no shorter gripped 3rd Gens that could use such a thing. Help! Anybody run into these before?

p.s., Yes, I bought the mags anyway.

They look like spacers that fill in the exposed gap when you are using longer high-cap magazines and they stick out the bottom of the mag well. Just a filler to take up space and make it more comfortable to handle.

Just my two cents.