Magazine Catch

[chameleon]

I'll tell ya, she is really great. I was floored with her memory and recalling things she and I talked about in the past.
Her knowledge of the pistols and the workings of everything encompassing the company is astounding.

After the conversation with her, I was happy that my R9 was just as it should be. A lesser person on the other end of that phone may have had me sending the pistol back for no reason.

[MountainMan]

Have been off for awhile and just read your thread on the mag catch.

Mine went back for repair and they replaced upgraded items included the magazine catch.

Yes the same as yours - need to push up on the magazine to release the new catch.  Sounds like it is all normal so thanks for doing the leg work on this.

[yankee2500]

MountainMan,
  welcome back, it has been a while sense I saw you post.

John

[kjtrains]

Dave.  Good to see you back.  

[chameleon]

Hi Dave, good to see you back out and about.

Yeah, a pleasant conversation with Marie about the catch.
Makes sense that it is a bit tighter fit.
I'm liking it that way now.

[gdavis2265]

I just bought a new early serial number stealth (21XX) and my mag catch is exactly as you described. You actually need to push up on the mag to realease. This is good and this can also be very bad. It's good 99.99% of the time in the real world keeping the mag from dropping when it's not suppose to, and its very bad in a gun fight (that .01%) when you need two hands to change magazines.

[Richard S]

Welcome back, Dave. (Shot any bad novels lately?   )

[I suppose I should edit this post for the newcomers to the Forum. It's just that back in the early days, if Dave didn't like a novel, he was known to use it as a target for his R9 -- and post the photographs to show depth of penetration of various loads.  ]

[yankee2500]

Sounds like a fine use of a bad book, and a good excuse to shoot the pup.

John

[kjtrains]

Hey, John.  Pup doesn't need an excuse to shoot; just go shoot and the bad book gets destroyed as a bonus!          

[kanuist]

MountainMan,

I'm wondering what changes were made to the magazine catch so you no longer need to push up/in on the magazine to release it.

Did they grind off the little lip that fits into the notch in the magazine base plate?

Does the mag stay in place well?  Has it ever popped out on you?


Thanks

[kjtrains]

Have been off for awhile and just read your thread on the mag catch.

Mine went back for repair and they replaced upgraded items included the magazine catch.

Yes the same as yours - need to push up on the magazine to release the new catch.  Sounds like it is all normal so thanks for doing the leg work on this.

Kanuist.  Still need to push up on the magazine to release.  Mine is that way as well; nearly 14 months old now.

[MountainMan]

MountainMan,

I'm wondering what changes were made to the magazine catch so you no longer need to push up/in on the magazine to release it.

Did they grind off the little lip that fits into the notch in the magazine base plate?

Does the mag stay in place well?  Has it ever popped out on you?


Thanks

I sent my R9 in for another repair and it came back with a new mag latch upgrade - need to push up on the mag to release it.

[MountainMan]

Welcome back, Dave. (Shot any bad novels lately?   )

[I suppose I should edit this post for the newcomers to the Forum. It's just that back in the early days, if Dave didn't like a novel, he was known to use it as a target for his R9 -- and post the photographs to show depth of penetration of various loads.  ]

Yes I did shot a novel two weeks ago but used a S&W  

Richard - for the fun of it I copied that old post below.
Dave

Stephen King's Book Bites The Bullet(s)

Years ago I read Stephen King's huge book (put a dent in my chest it was so heavy), "IT".  It had such a stupid ending I didn't read another of his books for years - until this week.

Well I decided to give him another chance and bought Stephen King's latest book "CELL".

I should have stopped half way through when the plot started getting too wierd.  Should have stopped two-thirds of the way through when he killed off the best character.  But no - I went to the end - and once again a stupid ending.

Ten minutes after I finished it this morning I took it out into the woods with my Rohrbaugh R9  loaded with a magazine of six Speer 115 grain GDHPs.  (Was going to use my Seecamp but decided it deserved a larger caliber.)

I then went back about 20 feet and put it out of it's misery - no failures to feed.  Didn't want anyone else to go through the grief with this copy.  

I will never read another Stephen King book!

The pictures below where not taken were the shooting took placed so you don't see all of the pieces laying around.

Oh - the Rohrbaugh was carried out to the woods to do the deed in a RJ holster.





All rounds exited out the back

Book Autopsy Report

Two hard covers -  402 pages or 201 sheets of paper - thickness 1 1/2 inches.

Even after expanding to produce an 1 1/8 inches exit hole the slugs still bore into a dead tree trunk.  I should of recovered one but didn't think about it.  Don't feel like going back to the scene of the book execution in the forest this morning and having to do another tick check.

I would say that Speer 9mm 115 gr GDHP can do the job - that is if you're ever attacked by a book.







Book wound channel

[kjtrains]

Good report, Dave.  I see execution of copy of novel was accomplished.    

[Richard S]

Dave:

Like fine wine, it only gets better with age.