I bought two 15-rd P99 Walther-marked (Mec-Gar) mags from Midway. They have black followers with long legs, inspection holes in the back and two vertical grooves on each sidewall. The spring has several narrower coils at the top but no "short" coil. The mag body has a holdopen clearance depression on the left side and a couple of small stab-creases at the taper.
Here's the rub, literally: The mag bodies are about .022" wider than a 15-shot (and a couple of 10-shot) smooth-sided Walther-marked Meg-Gars that I've had for some years; these have black followers with no legs, inspection holes in the right sidewall, and springs with one "short" coil.
The new mags are a VERY, VERY tight fit in my early P99 9mm, though they fit easily in my early P99 .40 cal. The latter has a mag well with inner ribs that correspond to the grooves in the mag body; the former does not.
I recall, and unsuccessfully searched for, an earlier thread enumerating variations in mags, especially with regard to follower color -- which seem to have become almost as inscrutable as the Department of Homeland Security's terrorist alert codes.
Can somebody please tell me if these new mags are the latest incarnation, or are they being dumped to distributors in favor of a still newer version?
Many thanks,
M
Here's the rub, literally: The mag bodies are about .022" wider than a 15-shot (and a couple of 10-shot) smooth-sided Walther-marked Meg-Gars that I've had for some years; these have black followers with no legs, inspection holes in the right sidewall, and springs with one "short" coil.
The new mags are a VERY, VERY tight fit in my early P99 9mm, though they fit easily in my early P99 .40 cal. The latter has a mag well with inner ribs that correspond to the grooves in the mag body; the former does not.
I recall, and unsuccessfully searched for, an earlier thread enumerating variations in mags, especially with regard to follower color -- which seem to have become almost as inscrutable as the Department of Homeland Security's terrorist alert codes.
Can somebody please tell me if these new mags are the latest incarnation, or are they being dumped to distributors in favor of a still newer version?
Many thanks,
M