jostein jensen Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Today while dryfiring in the livingroom (yeah, she actually gave me permission to hang up targets in the livingroom!) I noticed when cycling the slide with an empty mag in a weird jam. I haven't cut off the tabs on my followers, but I didn't think it would actually cause a jam, just lock the slide back. When I press the slidelock, the follower twists with the rear right edge coming up into contact with the breachface. You can clearly see it interfere with the slide in the picture below. My mags do lock back with one round left in the mag, but I've never had any problems dropping in the last round with the slidelock. So I can't really tell if I've had jams while live practicing the mag. The particular mag in question is a test mag for bolen spring/follower. Its set up by Howard with Grams guts and Dawson SNL which it is flawless with. Should I just revert back to the Grams or try some Dremel magic to this Bolen follower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al503 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Should I just revert back to the Grams or try some Dremel magic to this Bolen follower? Dremel the right rear corner off just a touch and you should be good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JThompson Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I would look hard at that mag tube there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jostein jensen Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 I would look hard at that mag tube there... Any suggestions for what to measure, or just visually compare to the others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMITH Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 JJ, if those are the mags I set up for you originally the Bolen gear may or may not work out well. Cut the ENTIRE tab off the follower that will contact the slide stop, and you might need to trim the slide stop back a little too. Try that first, worst case you are out the cost of one follower. Also test THOROUGHLY with 30 rounds to make sure they don't hang up on the first 2 or 3 rounds before taking it to a match, 29 will be good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jostein jensen Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Yes, its from the first mag set. It'll be a while before I get to the range, but I'll shot it full to empty a few times after trimming or reverting back to Grams before it comes with me to a match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMITH Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 OK JJ, the tuning changed some with the Bolen gear and yours are from well before that. Let me know if you have any questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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