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I'm a lefty, it takes a bit of manipulation. I've done it on at least 10 grips but it still takes me a few mins each time. Very frustrating. You have to push the retainer pin in while you pull the mag release out. Be careful, there is a little spring in there that has a tendency to go flying across the room and under things.
I fixed it by filing the shoot out of it almost flush, which is great because I don’t like to make any left-specific function changes on my pistols or rifles anyway. Except in this case using the Dremel to whittle down that insanely large stock magazine release.
For comparison- this is stock. Look how far it stuck out and into my lower middle finger! Wrapping my right fingers around to grip even harder is when it’d drop (not when left hand only or right hand shooting).
Ok, so I have tried and failed to reverse my mag release. It is supposed to be so easy you can do it with a paper clip. All. I managed to do was bend up the clip. So I went and bought a punch. Bent that up to. I have watched videos and even called Sig. No luck with them. Can anyone please help?
So I had the same problem with my brand new P320 compact. I even had my agency Sig certified armorer look at it, and he couldn’t get it. So I bought a replacement mag catch stop and essentially broke the old one. Funny thing is the original had a hole in it so the paper clip went right through and did not release it. So that may be the problem for some of you. New one on top, old one on bottom
So I had the same problem with my brand new P320 compact. I even had my agency Sig certified armorer look at it, and he couldn’t get it. So I bought a replacement mag catch stop and essentially broke the old one. Funny thing is the original had a hole in it so the paper clip went right through and did not release it. So that may be the problem for some of you. New one on top, old one on bottom
I had the same problem. Paper clip was useless. You essentially have to not only depress the tab on the retention device but then wiggle it up and out which is hard because the direction of the hole guides your instrument to push it downward.
I found a pair of extremely tiny tweezers with curved tips and tiny serations. So i used one of the curved tips and put it in the hole curved upwards so it depressed the clip bit pushed the device outward.
I thought Id never get it and have to take it to the gun shop, but then all of a sudden it worked.
Heads up! Its not easy to get it back in either. You have to realize when reinserting that you are working against spring tension to reinsert the retention device.
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