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Posted: 1/22/2008 8:31:57 AM EDT
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I can change out a 30rd mag follower in my sleep but I've never done it with a 20rd mag. How does the alloy follower come out in a straight 20rd mag? |
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It cost the life of one of my cherished range mags but I gotter done. I broke one floorplate tab and the metal piece that locks the floorplate into position. I'm not a newbie and like I posted before. I can do 30rd mags with my eyes closed. If anyone else doesn't know. You pull the follower to the bottom of the mag. Pull the spring off of follower. Twist follower to get it out of the mag. I've never had to mess with a 20rd mag in about 8yrs of owning an AR. I just now decided to replace the springs and swap out some plastic followers for alloy ones. Hopefully this post will save at least one 20rd mag from the kind of death mine had to suffer.  |
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Damn, sorry to hear about the loss of another old 20 round USGI mag and that I missed your thread. YMMV, but without removing the mag spring from the alloy follower; I simply (holding the mag spring in one hand) giggle the follower until it tips in the mag body then keep giggling it until the front of it drops forward outta of the frontal portion of the mag body, a little more giggling on the mag spring and she'll fall right out, follower, spring and all. Don't ask me "how" the giggling works (as the follower has to turn the correct way first to get sideways in the mag body, then to come forward outta the front of the mag and eventually falls out) but like you evertime I think I'll "force" it, it ends up getting wedged or stuck and as you noted I'm faced w/ placing undue pressure on the tabs..... It ain't scientific but sometimes it beats the heck outta the "if it don't fit force it" school of thought.  mike |
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