Magazine issue. Rounds stacking too tight.

[lroy]

I can feed my sti gen 2 mags normally without issue, however I recently replaced The guts with grams spring and followers and I've been running into an issue.

 

When loading, if I don't really press each round down a few times, they stack oddly and jam up too tightly in the mag. The fix for this is take off the basepad and remove the rounds to start over. The only way this doesn't happen is if I press down a few times with an uplula or my thumb and force them to stack correctly. It's fairly annoying and slows down the reloading process.

 

Is this fairly normal or is there something I can do to fix this?

[Slide4949]

load mag and let it set over night, will take some of the tension off and should work ok 

[lroy]

10 minutes ago, Slide4949 said:

load mag and let it set over night, will take some of the tension off and should work ok 

 is it a spring issue? It seems like they stack oddly and get wedged in the walls of actual tube. If I take a punch I can't even move the stuck rounds without a ton of force to break them free, then they pop up to the top of the mag.

Edited November 15, 2019 by lroy

[jcc7x7]

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Do as stated in the 2nd post

[Slide4949]

i replaced one of mine recently and had same experience. I had to take off base plate to get them out. But I did as stated above and it fixed my issue 

[lroy]

Yeah. Leaving them loaded overnight sorted the issue out. Thanks guys.

[Furrly]

another quick fix is to load to capacity and unload around 10x..