A Few Quick Words

I think I finally got a couple of magazines for the Llama Especial off Ebay. Man, most of those things were going for $50 apiece. I bid on several sets of two with the finger extension. I don't really want the finger extension and hope it is removable, but they kept going higher and higher. I finally slipped in on an auction and picked up two that I really hope fit for what I hope is a reasonable amount.

Now I am having trouble with one of the Hi Power clips. It started simple enough. I picked up 3 clips with the gun. None of them were new, but they were all labeled 15 rounds. Two of the clips were labeled Melgar. The third had no name and had a plastic bumper on it. That is the problem one. It has never functioned well with 15 rounds. It would work fine with 14, but cause a misfeed with 15. Okay, I just didn't load it with more than 14 rounds, but then all of a sudden it started hanging. It never happened while shooting, but if I unloaded the clip, it would work fine for about 5 rounds, but when I stripped the sixth round, it wouldn't push the rest up. The next 1 or 2 rounds would be loose, but the third would be wedged into the magazine, I would have to run something down into the magazine to press the round down to allow it to rise. Now, the stupid thing won't even let me load more than 10 rounds into it. After a few rounds, it seems to jam up and you can keep pressing rounds in, but they are loose rather than held in place. I've taken the magazine apart and cleaned it. I've reversed the spring, stretched it a little, it will improve a little, but only about a round or two. I diagnose a weak spring, but I can't tell if the replacement springs out there are for 15 round mags or 13 rounds. I hate to spend $30+ bucks on a new magazine if a $8.00 spring will fix it. More later.