wyntrout
05-20-2011, 11:09 AM
A few weeks ago, I knocked or swept my P380 off the kitchen counter onto the floor... accidentally, of course. I tried to break its fall with my foot. It glanced off my foot and hit the ceramic tile floor! Bullets flew everywhere!
Evidently the corner of the magazine struck just right and the base plate flew off. The pistol was in its Uncle Mike IWB holster for on and off carry around the house and yard, so there was no damage done to the gun... or the magazine, that I can see.
I found all of the bullets and the follower pretty quickly, but it took moving the refrigerator, the beverage refrigerator, the freezer, the microwave cabinet, and the large wooden hanging file cabinet... AND a lot of cleaning under and behind all of those things... over a decade of dust under/behind a few things... before I found the spring and the locking plate under the beverage fridge. It took around a half-hour, total, for me to find the base plate behind my computer tables in the "old breakfast nook"/now computer room.
The P380 mags' base plate is easily removed by just "wiping" my thumb across it while applying some downward pressure. This is just one more reason to have more than one magazine with you for defense. Just imagine your magazine being struck or dropped and this happening... just the round in the chamber left... maybe!
Timeout! I think not! :D
Wynn:rolleyes:
Evidently the corner of the magazine struck just right and the base plate flew off. The pistol was in its Uncle Mike IWB holster for on and off carry around the house and yard, so there was no damage done to the gun... or the magazine, that I can see.
I found all of the bullets and the follower pretty quickly, but it took moving the refrigerator, the beverage refrigerator, the freezer, the microwave cabinet, and the large wooden hanging file cabinet... AND a lot of cleaning under and behind all of those things... over a decade of dust under/behind a few things... before I found the spring and the locking plate under the beverage fridge. It took around a half-hour, total, for me to find the base plate behind my computer tables in the "old breakfast nook"/now computer room.
The P380 mags' base plate is easily removed by just "wiping" my thumb across it while applying some downward pressure. This is just one more reason to have more than one magazine with you for defense. Just imagine your magazine being struck or dropped and this happening... just the round in the chamber left... maybe!
Timeout! I think not! :D
Wynn:rolleyes: