Taurus TX22 magazine issues.

Need to start be saying that I love the TX 22. It is a perfect trainer for my various plastic service pistols, with a similar form factor and a 16rd magazine capacity. It is accurate, and for the most part, reliable.

All of the reliability issues are in the magazines. They are a double stack design, and the problem is the rounds bind in the body. When I am loading them, even with the followers pulled all the way down, with no contact at all, the rounds stick to the sides of the mag and require force to load. The mag spring I thing just doesn't have enough strength to push against the friction of the rounds binding against the walls of the mag. I've never seen anything like this. I'm not sure if my mags are out of spec or if there is some magic lube I can use. Normal gun oil doesn't seem to work.

The most frequent malfunctions are nose dives when the second round hasn't pushed the first one far enough up to clear the magazine, or when the mag actually closes on no round at all because none popped up in time.

UPDATE: I have found and fixed the issue. Havok7416 was correct. As I sighted don't the central ridge of the magazine body I could see that they were slightly squeezed inward in the middle. I determined that a standard wooden pencil was exactly the right thickness, after disassembling the magazines, I carefully slid the pencil all the way into the magazine to spread it open evenly. After I got it in place straight, center on the ridge. I then heated the magazines with a heat gun. Not enough to melt or soften the plastic, just enough to make them too hot to comfortably hold. I then let them cool down so they would "take a set." Afterwards I could look down the ridge and they appeared straight. Took the gun out this morning, and not only did the mags load easier, with no resistance, but the gun made it through 200 rounds with exactly one failure to feed. And that's in the hands of my wife, who is a beginner! So I am very happy, and once again satisfied with my Taurus.

Actually, I prefer the 15 rds, in fact a usually load 15 because that mirrors the most common 9mm mag capacity, which is what Bought this gun for, as a surrogate to practice with to save money and precious, precious ammo. I want to make my practice realistic.

I dealt with this issue exactly, and I have a fix- Ill do a walk through. both my mags had this problem.
The problem is the sides of the mag bow inwards and are tight in the middle. they need to be spread back out.
First, disassemble the mags. Pretty simple. look down the inside and you can see the bowing inward.
Second, get a standard yellow hexagonal pencil. I found that to be exactly the right size.
Third, drive the pencil into the magazine lengthwise, lined up with the flat ridge parallel with the slider groove, right in the center of the mag.
Third, get a heat gun and heat the magazine up. I have no way to quantify this, but it needs to be hot enough to slightly soften the plastic without melting it at all. Mine did stary to smell like hot plastic. if it gets shiny, that's too hot, back off. Start slow, and if it doesn't work, go a little hotter.

When you are done, you will pull the pencil out and be able to look down the mag sides, inside, and see them totally straight, no bow inward.

Reassemble, and the problem is solved.