Just tried to show my nephew how to pop off the base and remove the spring and follower on a Glock 17 magazine.
Not that it needed cleaning, but it's part of a thorough cleaning if the gun would need it later.
Well, that was a %^&$** of a job !!! There are locking tabs on both sides of the plastic magazine body that engage slots in the sides of the base. It's just just a spring-loaded locking pin sticking through a hole in the base. Nope, it's not like 95% of other centerfire defensive handguns made in the last 50 years.
We had to tape small nuts to the mag body next to those tabs and compress the mag in a bench vise, with the nuts concentrating the force where the side tabs were, to allow the base to be slid back. And even then it was crazy tight.
Not that it needed cleaning, but it's part of a thorough cleaning if the gun would need it later.
Well, that was a %^&$** of a job !!! There are locking tabs on both sides of the plastic magazine body that engage slots in the sides of the base. It's just just a spring-loaded locking pin sticking through a hole in the base. Nope, it's not like 95% of other centerfire defensive handguns made in the last 50 years.
We had to tape small nuts to the mag body next to those tabs and compress the mag in a bench vise, with the nuts concentrating the force where the side tabs were, to allow the base to be slid back. And even then it was crazy tight.