benEzra
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So I grabbed my spare mag carrier this morning for my EDC (same S&W 3913LS that I’ve carried since 1995ish) and saw this sticking out of the pouch:
That’s not good! That happened since my last range trip just a couple of weeks ago. It’s a common failure mode of the plastic baseplates, at least on the single-stack 3rd-gen Smiths...the plastic gets fatigued and splits along the interior groove where it slides over the flange of the mag body.
I immediately went on Brownells and threw a few 3913LS baseplates in my cart, but I realize that could have happened just as easily to the one in the pistol.
If you carry mags with plastic baseplates, get a flashlight and check then for fatigue cracks every once in a while. It would suck to have that happen at a bad moment.
Gratuitous old-school pic (not my current carry load, though).
That’s not good! That happened since my last range trip just a couple of weeks ago. It’s a common failure mode of the plastic baseplates, at least on the single-stack 3rd-gen Smiths...the plastic gets fatigued and splits along the interior groove where it slides over the flange of the mag body.
I immediately went on Brownells and threw a few 3913LS baseplates in my cart, but I realize that could have happened just as easily to the one in the pistol.
If you carry mags with plastic baseplates, get a flashlight and check then for fatigue cracks every once in a while. It would suck to have that happen at a bad moment.
Gratuitous old-school pic (not my current carry load, though).
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. Colt did replace no muss no fuss to their credit. This was about 10-12 years or so ago. 
