Does anyone experience magazine rattle with their double stack magazines? I accept a little, depending on how many rounds you have in them, would be normal, but both factory magazines for my (9mm Walther) P99 seem to allow the bullets, follower, spring, or all to shift excessively. When I have 14 or 11 rounds inserted it is particularly bad. Could this be a spring strength problem? I’ve never had any feed issues, or any reliability issues actually. With a full 15 inserted there is no rattle so it’s not that big of a deal, but it is annoying. I've never experienced anything this audible in any of my other double stack mags. I bought this gun to possibly carry, but when I take a step it sounds like a maraca. Not very discrete. Thoughts?
Magazine Rattle
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hAkron
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I think it's the follower. When it's empty it's tight against the top, when the magazine is full the spring is compressed enough to not let it rattle. Less than full it has enough space to wiggle. Just a guess.
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It's a common problem on Browning Hi Power mags as well. If there is a cure for it, I don't know what it is.
rcmodel
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A 9mm pistol mag is straight.
But a 9mm cartridge has .011" taper from head to mouth.
Lay a mag full side by side on the kitchen table and see what shape they assume.
A nice rainbow if you don't want to bother trying it.
.011" x 15 rounds is well over 1/8" differance front to back of the stack.
So, when you make them stack straight in the mag, they protest by rattling.
Try loading the mag, then whack it on the back edge against your boot heel or something.
Sometimes that will settle them in the mag and stop the rattle.
Sometimes it won't too.
rc
But a 9mm cartridge has .011" taper from head to mouth.
Lay a mag full side by side on the kitchen table and see what shape they assume.
A nice rainbow if you don't want to bother trying it.
.011" x 15 rounds is well over 1/8" differance front to back of the stack.
So, when you make them stack straight in the mag, they protest by rattling.
Try loading the mag, then whack it on the back edge against your boot heel or something.
Sometimes that will settle them in the mag and stop the rattle.
Sometimes it won't too.
rc
I had this same issue with a Taurus .40 that I was using as an EDC, very annoying to say the least, felt like everybody could hear me coming and going; the solution was as rcmodel notes, to empty the mag and reload it, making sure to seat each round by tapping the mag on the palm of my hand....rattle stopped after that.
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