PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-556
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 556
MARCH 1999
PS 556
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on’t let your subscription to maga-
zine PM lapse. If the magazine can’t
feed ammo, your pistol won’t shoot.
Simple as that.
Take a good look at the magazine. If
it’s missing parts or is badly dented,
replace it.
Here’s how to make sure your maga-
zine works, before you go to the firing
range:
Depress the follower and release it.
It should spring back smoothly.
M9 Pistol . . .
In the field, clean the magazine daily,
right along with your pistol.
Do not store magazines with ammo
in them.
the follower with a cloth and CLP. Use
a toothbrush on stubborn dirt. Wipe
clean the spring and floorplate and give
them a light coat of CLP.
Test the follower again. If it still
doesn’t snap back, get a new magazine.
Stick the empty magazine in your
M9 until you hear the catch click. Hold
your pistol in firing position to make
sure the magazine stays in place.
If it doesn’t, take the magazine apart.
Clean the inside of the magazine and
Magazine stay in pistol?
Follower spring back?
Clean and lube magazine and spring
Test and lube
new
magazines, too.
don’t
wait
until you get
to the field to find out
you have
magazine
problems
.
PS 556
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