Mec Gar Sig P226 mags - two different followers?

[ez bake]

So I've been running my Frankenstein Sig P226 for a little over 1000rds now without a cleaning (lots of hard shooting, doing a lot of dropping mags in the sand/dirt, and just banging them off until they're clean and running them again) and I've had no issues at all other than the slide not locking back on a couple of my Mec Gar mags.

Now, I don't blame these mags at all considering the condition they're in (extremely dirty), but I noticed that two of the Mec Gars have a different follower on them than the one that doesn't ever fail (the part of the follower that engages the slide-stop is much higher on the non-failing mag).

Does anyone know where to get followers for Mec Gar mags? Mec-Gar's site sucks and it doesn't even show parts (that I can find). I thought about calling them, but thought to post here just in case anyone had a good source of mag-followers (or specifically, Mec-Gar or Sig-specific followers).

This thing is honestly filthy - I'm really happy with the performance of the gun so far. I hope to use it to compete in my first pistol match soon.

 

[ez bake]

Crickets huh? Guess I'll be calling Mec-Gar Tuesday Morning.

 

[ldp4570]

Never really paid attention. I've got several of the mecgar's, and SIG mags, and never had any issues with failing to lock back. Then again I'm a lefty, so no issue's with riding to high on the frame, don't know if that may be an issue for you or not.

 

[HiredHand]

http://www.topgunsupply.com/sig-sauer-p226-gun-parts/index5.html

Hope this helps.

 

[ez bake]

http://www.topgunsupply.com/sig-sauer-p226-gun-parts/index5.html

Hope this helps.

Thanks man - Those two Mec-Gars appear to be using the "old style German 12rd" followers.

I don't know why I didn't look at TopGun - I'm on that site several times a week but didn't even think about the mag stuff.

I tore all 7 of them down and cleaned/oiled/wiped them down and holy crap (I should have taken pics). They were absolutely filthy. I used paper-towels on them because it took like 2 of them just to clean the muck out of each mag - they had the original brown grease in them and the dirt that had accumulated had mixed in there to a gritty sort of paste.

I got them cleaned and lubed with Tetra-lube and wiped them down so I'll see how well they do when we go out next.

I did notice that the two mags with different followers had completely different springs than the third Mec-Gar (absolutely no problems with all 4 of the factory Sig mags - they were the filthiest of all and still performed flawlessly).

I think I'll go about 500rds in between cleanings now for this gun, but I don't know that I'll go another 1080rds inbetween ever again (but its nice to know I could if I needed to).

I love these P226's.