Need help identifying some pistol magazines.

[avtomatkalashnikov47]

I got 3 pistol magazines at a eastate sale for .50 cents a piece. They seemed awfully close to a Beretta 92fs magazine and figured heck for a buck fifty why not take a chance. I got all three. What I found is that one of the mags is a little bit longer than the others.

Someone said they think it may be some cz pistol mag but I don't know for certain. It's been a long time and i sat em up on this shelf and forgot about em for a rainy day.

So upon testing them in a nice factory Italian Beretta 92 is the full size Beretta mags are substantially longer and the factory mags for the Beretta fit flush in this gun.


I know this thread isn't worth anything without pictures but getting the thread started I figured Is a start. I will post some photos later. But I wanted help identifying these.


They do fit into the Beretta 92fs and they even lock in, but the mouth of the mag doesn't sit in the chamber. The mags are a little too short.

I know they make a compact Beretta 92, any other guns come to mind with really similar magazines?

 

[rc508pir]

Shouldnt be any difference in the seating depth between the 92fs and the 92compact. Same gun just the compact is cut down in size.

 

[avtomatkalashnikov47]

Shouldnt be any difference in the seating depth between the 92fs and the 92compact. Same gun just the compact is cut down in size.

Alright that's a start. I guess that rules out it being beretta 92 compact magazines.

 

[rc508pir]

Load up some snap caps and see if it cycles

 

[avtomatkalashnikov47]

Nah i dont think it would. I can check when i get home but with the mag locked into the magwell it sits way to short and far down in the magwell... Its kinda like sticking a shorter compact glock 26 mag in a fullsize glock 19. It fits but doesnt reach all the way up there.

 

[SoonerP226]

The SIG P226 uses a very similar magazine. It has been many moons since I tested them, but I think the main difference was that the magazine catch cutout is positioned differently.

ETA: excluding the different magazine foot plates, that is.

 

[avtomatkalashnikov47]

Beretta magazine is on the far left.

 

[SoonerP226]

The cuts and funky foot plates would most likely place them in the 1994-2004 date range. The cuts were to keep you from converting it from a 10-rounder into a then-illegal 15-rounder and the "high" foot reduced the capacity while maintaining compatibility with full-size mag wells, both of which were work-arounds during the term of the AWB. They look vaguely like Daewoo mags, at least in the shape of the foot plate.

 

[mr ed]

There's like 10 or 15 mags that are basically the same except for mag catch location.
I got a buttload in a deal once and the cheapo labels had fell off. so, it was a matter of trying different guns.
I've still got some that I never figured out.
I'll give you one hint. If it looks like a beretta, think european mag catch on the bottom so there's NO catch slot.
Some Sig's may be like that too.

 

[RickN]

Kind of look like early S&W series mags so the Daewoo might be correct.