Mag Extensions

[ThomasA]

man it's really simple and pretty much easy to figure out. Push in the detent on the bottom of the base pad. Slide basepad forward off the magazine tube. Hold the detent plate down while doing this or it'll fly out and you'll never find it again. Discard old base pad and detent plate. Insert new detent plate with the tab facing up and towards the front (towards barrel when in the gun). push down, and slide new extended base pad over the top. It'll go click when it's in. That's it. Finished.
-Thomas

[Gonz0]

OK, well now I feel... even dumber. It seemed pretty simple and straight-forward, but I've got the feeling I somehow managed to screw it up! The thing that has me questioning if I attached it right, is that in the description it says: "These are the only extensions for the XD9 and XD40 that have locking plates to keep them from popping off your mags." However I put it on, but it doesn't really seem to be locked in place. If I push on the extension it slide and the only thing that stops it from sliding off is the spring, which it catches on. I took some pictures of it, which I hope will show what I mean, and might help in figuring this out.

Here is the mag(SA 12rd 357sig) with the AGP extension attached:

Here is a picture of all the pieces essentially as they were assembled:

I put the detent(locking?) plate at the end of the spring, and pushed it into the mag body, with the tab in between the spring and the inside of the mag body; and then slid the extended base pad over it.

As you can see in this pic of the bottom of the extended base pad, the detent is set in the hole on bottom where it should be:


Here is a pic showing how the extended base pad slides and isn't locked in place. This isn't the best pic, but I think it shows what I'm talking about.

And this picture was taken with the factory spring in it, for some reason when the extra-power spring is in it, the base pad will slide even further.

HELP!

[ryr8828]

Since the plate isn't in the magazine anymore with the extension on there it has to slide, there's nothing to hold it. My arrendondos are the same way, but I haven't had any problems with them sliding off.

[Gonz0]

Oh, mmmkay, so I guess I did put it together right? Yeah, I don't think it could slide off since the spring catches it, I just didn't think it was supposed to slide at all.

So... what exactly does the "locking plate" do? Is the AGP's detent plate with the tab the locking plate, or is the locking plate... something else? What's locking?

[scooterj]

Can you take the extension off without pushing the retainer into the mag body? If not it is doing what it is supposed to. With not much tension on the spring, the retainer can "rock" and allow the extension to move some.

[ThomasA]

the mag extension itself also slightly locks on the tabs it slides on to. But the locking plate inside the tube also helps guide the spring on these extensions. Mine have never even come slightly off of the locked position, and I do speed reloads with them. Which means I release the mag from standing position and let it free fall to the ground.
-Thomas

[Alberto]

Good thread, I will order one this week. Do you have a picture with the extended mag inside the pistol?

[ThomasA]

[RIIID]

It won't be much longer and Canyon Creek will release a base pad extension for the small frame XD line that has a set screw to secure the base pad on the tube, no sliding at all.
Rich

[ThomasA]

the aluminum ones like on the XDm? $35 a piece, ouch. I'll stick with my plastic AGP's.
-Thomas