Replacement Luger magazines

[smle-man]

I got the Wolff Luger springs yesterday, installed them and took them to the range today to try. One magazine worked ok when loaded with 7 rounds but misfed with 8. The second magazine went bonkers when the spring was compressed, twisted the spring on itself somehow and completely bound up. I tossed it in the trash in disgust. So my $16 investment got me one magazine that works more or less. Not Wolff's fault, rather the magazine manufacturer. Comparing the faulty magazines with the Mecgar version, they appear to look identical except that the feed lips on the el-cheapo version are not angled in as much as on the Mecgar.

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Bummer. The cheap mags I put wolf springs in I got at Sarco and they only hold 7rnds and use rectangular spring. They work good now, just hard to load.

[Enfield47]

I got the Wolff Luger springs yesterday, installed them and took them to the range today to try. One magazine worked ok when loaded with 7 rounds but misfed with 8. The second magazine went bonkers when the spring was compressed, twisted the spring on itself somehow and completely bound up. I tossed it in the trash in disgust. So my $16 investment got me one magazine that works more or less. Not Wolff's fault, rather the magazine manufacturer. Comparing the faulty magazines with the Mecgar version, they appear to look identical except that the feed lips on the el-cheapo version are not angled in as much as on the Mecgar.

That really sucks. So did you throw the mag away or the spring?

[smle-man]

It was so jammed in I just tossed it. I didn't want to futz with it anymore. I can't understand how the spring managed to get past itself in the magazine shell to jam. i had the thing for 20 years so I guess it wasn't a big loss.