Okay, ran across these in a couple of threads - ordered them on Wednesday and they were delivered Saturday. $10 for a pair of them, plus $6.95 postage. Why? Well, because it pleases me to think of the shade of Bill ("No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun") Ruger and the countless other dipsticks who discount Real America suffering indigestion at the thought of a factory magazine being converted from 10-round to greater capacity.
Galloway Precision has manufactured these shorter-than-normal followers for the Ruger SR22P, which they advertise as "+3" followers. The part that was shortened is the portion that allowed the pull-down-the-follower magazine buttons to assist in loading, so that's no longer there.
Galloway advertises that their followers are of a slicker composition than the Ruger factory plastic. What I found was that they were of a physically rougher composition (but they certainly performed as if they were in fact slicker). Not sure if this cell phone macro pic shows it, but it might:
Installation was not entirely hassle-free. The first of the followers that I attempted to install was slightly oversized - it hung-up when inserted in the mag and would not lift fully to the top without a stouter push than the factory magazine spring provided. I called the Galloway Precision number to ask about it and got an answering machine message telling me that the best way to get them was via email. Okay. Well, I tried pushing the oversized follower up and down within the mag body to see if it would "wear in," but the only thing that was happening was that I was getting frustrated.
So, I went out to the garage and grabbed a sanding sponge. Three minutes later, and the follower slid perfectly within the channel. I installed the magazine and floorplate and ran a bunch of rounds through the gun, whipping the slide to simulate firing. No failures to feed.
All right, I figured I'd hazard installation of the second follower. This one dropped right in and worked perfectly from the get-go. Go figure.
Here's the thing, though: my followers did not permit 13 rounds to be seated in the magazine - only 12. I would have had to force the rim of the thirteenth round below the steel magazine lip in order to seat it. Since that's where the 'splody stuff lives, I didn't think it was worth my effort to do so. I consider these to be +2 followers.
But the proof is in the shooting, right? I ran the two mags out to the range and put 150 or so rounds of mixed (low velocity target, 60-gr Aguila SSS, match, high velocity and hypervelocity) rounds through the gun. I ran full 12-round mags, with a chamber round of the same type.
The followers worked. The only failure I had was with a underpowered (I was chronoing at the time and this round was 200 fps below the mean of the others) Remington Subsonic 38-gr hollowpoint - the round simply didn't generate sufficient force to throw the slide back far enough to pick up the next round in the mag. One of the followers actuated the gun's bolt-hold-open, the other did not. But were they reliable? Honestly, I feel that the Galloway Precision followers worked better than the Ruger factory ones . . . possibly because they have no drag from the loading-assist button.
Do you need them? Probably not, if you're using the SR22P as a plinker. Do they work? It sure seems like it. Worth your money if you want to spit in the eye of those people trying to keep you from having magazines over 10 rounds' capacity? You betcha!
Galloway Precision has manufactured these shorter-than-normal followers for the Ruger SR22P, which they advertise as "+3" followers. The part that was shortened is the portion that allowed the pull-down-the-follower magazine buttons to assist in loading, so that's no longer there.
Galloway advertises that their followers are of a slicker composition than the Ruger factory plastic. What I found was that they were of a physically rougher composition (but they certainly performed as if they were in fact slicker). Not sure if this cell phone macro pic shows it, but it might:
Installation was not entirely hassle-free. The first of the followers that I attempted to install was slightly oversized - it hung-up when inserted in the mag and would not lift fully to the top without a stouter push than the factory magazine spring provided. I called the Galloway Precision number to ask about it and got an answering machine message telling me that the best way to get them was via email. Okay. Well, I tried pushing the oversized follower up and down within the mag body to see if it would "wear in," but the only thing that was happening was that I was getting frustrated.
So, I went out to the garage and grabbed a sanding sponge. Three minutes later, and the follower slid perfectly within the channel. I installed the magazine and floorplate and ran a bunch of rounds through the gun, whipping the slide to simulate firing. No failures to feed.
All right, I figured I'd hazard installation of the second follower. This one dropped right in and worked perfectly from the get-go. Go figure.
Here's the thing, though: my followers did not permit 13 rounds to be seated in the magazine - only 12. I would have had to force the rim of the thirteenth round below the steel magazine lip in order to seat it. Since that's where the 'splody stuff lives, I didn't think it was worth my effort to do so. I consider these to be +2 followers.
But the proof is in the shooting, right? I ran the two mags out to the range and put 150 or so rounds of mixed (low velocity target, 60-gr Aguila SSS, match, high velocity and hypervelocity) rounds through the gun. I ran full 12-round mags, with a chamber round of the same type.
The followers worked. The only failure I had was with a underpowered (I was chronoing at the time and this round was 200 fps below the mean of the others) Remington Subsonic 38-gr hollowpoint - the round simply didn't generate sufficient force to throw the slide back far enough to pick up the next round in the mag. One of the followers actuated the gun's bolt-hold-open, the other did not. But were they reliable? Honestly, I feel that the Galloway Precision followers worked better than the Ruger factory ones . . . possibly because they have no drag from the loading-assist button.
Do you need them? Probably not, if you're using the SR22P as a plinker. Do they work? It sure seems like it. Worth your money if you want to spit in the eye of those people trying to keep you from having magazines over 10 rounds' capacity? You betcha!
I'll continue to play with them and write back if anything odd happens, but these seem like a good product.
