What have you bought in the last 48 hours gun related?

QUESTION: Anyone with an M&P shield. I have an M&P shield 9. When releasing the magazine and its empty it comes out like normal. Just falls right out. When loaded and hit the release it only pops out about half an inch. Is that normal and some safety type of mechanism or not normal? My Springfield armory XD9 comes out no matter what, so just wanted to be sure.

 

Just grabbed mine and checked. Drops free full mag, drops free empty mag.

 

Investigate it, poke around inside. I'm sure you can work out what's going on.

 

More time at the bench.

 

Thank you for checking. Is that with a round chambered as well?

Don’t know a lot about guns as far as diagnostics but im going to look around and will try and see if I can see anything holding it up

 

Just got back from north east Tx. Was able to get some 22mag.
Can't find it in San Diego.

 

Kind of a neat part about these threads I tend to learn things.

 

Yep. No change between empty or full mag with slide forward or locked back.

 

I just purchased some more reloading stuff, new case length gauges and more bullets. I so tired of not being able to find small pistol primers. I think maybe I'll hit Bass Pro Shop early one morning.

 

Not normal.

 

Happens with both magazines that it came with. According to everyone this is not normal so either when the round are in it's catching on something or swelling like youre saying. I will investigate and try and figure it out

 

Thing to remember is the manufacturing process has room for variations in specifications. I ran into a similar issue using an M4A1 lower with an arronado flared mag well and P-mags. Ended up finding where it was catching and assisted with the break in process to let it fall free.

So your release could be catching on the magazines (if it's more than one mag it's likely not the magazines but not completely impossible) but if the magazines are from the same batch it may be a multiple factor situation.

Is the Pistol new? Try running your magazines several times (took me about 30 or 40 after I broke mine in) and to see where it could be catching do it slow and feel for the tension and see if you can figure out where it came from.

It's probably just variations in specifications from manufacturing and should break in.

 

Thank you for the reply. Its about 2 years old but have only shot the gun a couple times. Other than that its cleaned and stays holstered for the most part. Mags have prob gone in and out of the gun around 40x or so over that couple years. I will def investigate thank you

 

Added a Parker Mountain Machine Micro Comp and Barrel combo to my P365XL

 

I ordered a 10/22 charger to cut down on ammunition costs

 

They’re fun!

 

I've never used a comp on a pistol. Do they help that much?

 

Felt recoil is reduced by 30 percent or so on a single port like this one. With a dual port, like the ones on my glock 19 and P320, you can get 40+ percent. I have yet to shoot this particular setup (hopefully Sunday), but my overall goal is to make +P 124gr easier to manage in this micro 9.

 

Ordered a P30L (V3) from my lgs today.