How does it shoot with a different mag installed?
That was my first thought also. I think I did that once or twice with my LCP also.RobR369 said:you are not accidently hitting the mag release during your grip of the recoil? Maybe Keep an eye on that.. My son does the same thing everytime with my P22. Some how after he pulls the trigger, he catches the mag release. I have tried to watch closely while he is shooting, and for the life of me, cant see or figure out how he is doing it. I know, that the release on the P22 is totally different then the release on the LCP but thats something i would check out before sending it back to Ruger... Please keep us informed. thanks
My bet is that you have a bad magazine catch, or possably there is to much excess polymer on the bottom of the grip preventing the magazines from going all the way in and locking properly. Those catches are damn durable and you can slam them but in time you will damage the release, but I am not talking about 10 times or 50 times.It will take awhile.PaLCP said:I bought my LCP around 6 weeks ago and the first trip to the range was fine; it went BANG each and every time. I think I put 100 rounds through it. Since there wasn't really much to hold onto, I bought some Bersa finger extensions which fit on the bottom of the magazine, albeit with a little gap. Things were fine with these extensions at first, but then the magazine started dropping after every round fired, DOHH. I thought maybe the forward pressure from the finger extensions was causing this, so I took the Bersa extensions off. With the magazines back to stock configuration, I went back to the range and to my disappointment, the magazine dropping continued!
Has anyone else had this issue? I have to send it back to Ruger to have them look at this. I think maybe I wore down the magazine catch. Other than the Bersa extensions, I recall slamming the magazine in a few times, which I know Kel-Tec tells people NOT to do with the P3AT.
Isn't he a member here? Not very polite.LCP_Dogg said:Dude, yeah you can NOT slam the magazine in on these little guns (like this turkey does at 0:28: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TV-IsoL0Ms). It will break or wear down the magazine catch.
My guess would be that when you added the finger extensions to the mags and began shooting the gun with the new finger extensions in place the recoil of the gun was causing a lot of downward pressure on the magazine which eventually wore the mag catch down to where it will no longer hold the magazine in place. After all, it was metal bearing down on plastic. Metal will win that fight every time. That is why I personally do not like the finger extensions on any gun that uses plastic mag catches. I have had a Glock 27 for over 12 years now and I never wanted or added the extensions to its mags. I had a P3AT before the LCP and I never added any extensions to it. And since I will not be using it I will probably sell the new finger extension mag that Ruger sent me with my returned LCP.PaLCP said:I bought my LCP around 6 weeks ago and the first trip to the range was fine; it went BANG each and every time. I think I put 100 rounds through it. Since there wasn't really much to hold onto, I bought some Bersa finger extensions which fit on the bottom of the magazine, albeit with a little gap. Things were fine with these extensions at first, but then the magazine started dropping after every round fired, DOHH. I thought maybe the forward pressure from the finger extensions was causing this, so I took the Bersa extensions off. With the magazines back to stock configuration, I went back to the range and to my disappointment, the magazine dropping continued!
Has anyone else had this issue? I have to send it back to Ruger to have them look at this. I think maybe I wore down the magazine catch. Other than the Bersa extensions, I recall slamming the magazine in a few times, which I know Kel-Tec tells people NOT to do with the P3AT.
Again, his works fine without finger extensions and trouble with the extensions. To me it sounds like the finger extensions are causing the problems. I personally will not use them on mine.DaveLee said:I have had the exact same problem (and reported it here several times)
Magazines with finger extensions fall like ripe apples from my LCP - doesn't matter if they are Ruger magazine extensions or third party. I've tried different ammo, different ways to grip the pistol, and having other people shoot - same results. The magazines, if they have a finger extension, they fall out. No extension - no problem,
I don't slam magazines either.
My was shipped back to Ruger for the recall last week with a note - we'll see if they fix it.