Results were a bit disappointing because after inserting and racking the slide on the replacement magazine, the magazine was frequently falling out on the ground. I stopped to investigate and found the magazine release was not consistently engaging and retaining the magazine - even when the magazine was pushed all the way in. It would sometimes require multiple hard insertions and “taps” to get the magazine retained in the grip.
Did the internet search and found many people have had this issue. Some of the “gurus” suggested buying a different spring, cutting it to length; others said stretch the original spring, and finally I started finding posts that said Sig recognized the problem and came out with a 2nd generation magazine release design that I found no issues reported.
I took mine out this morning and did a RemOil blast inside the spring hole. A lot of black residue came out. I reassembled and tested and it seems to be fixed. I guess enough had built up over thousands of rounds of firing to impede the spring’s function.
It being New Year’s Eve, I am going to wait until next week to contact Sig to find out if my SN has Gen1 or Gen2 design installed.
Just wanted to post so others with the same model would be aware. We all know it is better to find out in training rather than active self defense.
I’m thinking it was just gunked up. I saw similar after shooting a bunch of “dirty” reloads. Hit it hard with guns rubber, oiled, and never had a recurrence.
I guess I am Shown exaggerated in photo below, the pinky extension had slid up making full insertion into the mag well challenging. There is a retention feature that should have prevented this, but it didn’t.
Regardless, it did not hurt to R&R the mag release, it was pretty nasty!
Just got off the phone with Sig Sauer. They do not maintain configuration control by Serial Number. Therefore, they have no idea what Revision my magazine release is. They did offer to inspect my firearm if I wanted to ship it to them for analysis. I will not be exercising that option at this time.
Regarding the slip and slide on the pinky extension, they also offered to have me ship the magazines for their analysis. After I analyzed the design I have concluded two things:
The retention feature is only molded into one side and should be as a minimum molded into two sides
The retention feature should be at least twice as deep for long term reliability.
Short term workaround (for me) will be to press on the metal bottom of the magazine to insert (as opposed to pushing with the palm of hand). Long term, I will probably match drill a couple of holes thru the side of the magazine and the pinky extension as shown below. A small diameter stainless steel wire will be pushed thru the new holes and trimmed to length to retain the pinky extension in place.
No, @Dawn, they did not. However, at $52 each they are proud of them!
I honestly did not experience a problem with them until I started letting them free-fall (empty) onto a rug during magazine reload drills. I do not anticipate them addressing this issue unless quite a few more complaints start coming in.
It has been a while, but I finally got around to resolving this. In the spirit of keeping it simple, I looked at the baseplate again. It turns out there is a retention feature molded into the front of the baseplate to keep the front from riding up on the magazine, but no similar on the rear. I disassembled the magazine and drilled and tapped a 4-40 thread thru the baseplate and magazine. I then screwed in a 4-40 allen screw to lock the baseplate in position. I’ve loaded the magazine and dropped it about 10 times so far - it hasn’t moved yet. I did a countersink to smooth out the outside of the baseplate after this photo was taken:
Resurrecting a old thread that reared its head again at the range yesterday. I shot some 124GR, ELITE V-CROWN, JHP, 1165 fps, 374 ft-lb ammo yesterday. It is a little bit hotter than what I normally shoot for range ammo. Anyway, the magazine fell out after the 2nd shot. It was my intent to shoot the one magazine with this pistol, but it turned into an experiment to figure out if I accidently pressed the mag release, or is it some other reliability issue.
I won’t bore you with the details of the range tests, but when I got home I perused the internet looking for photos clearly labeling photos of Gen 1 and Gen 2 mag releases. By the markings and catch curvature I was able to determine I do have a Gen 1 release. Gen 2 is on order and this pistol is on the inactive list until range tested again.
I had a similar issue with a Ruger LCP II that was giving me all sorts of problems including the magazine dropping out while firing. Waisted a whole lot of ammo trying to figure out if it was certain magazines or me tripping the mag release. After determining it wasn’t me or the mags I sent it into Ruger and they replaced the mag release and pretty much everything else but the frame. Works great now.
Shown exaggerated in photo below, the pinky extension had slid up making full insertion into the mag well challenging. There is a retention feature that should have prevented this, but it didn’t.
