Hello again everyone,
I have just installed the new stronger mag springs. I was a little woried as I was getting the impression that loading that 6th round and seating the mag in the gun after this modification was going to be a problem. No problems at all. It is not that hard to seat that last round in the mag and my mags snapped home with out a hitch. Even installing the mag springs was not to hard but I do have a bit of experience with this type of thing as I know most who post here do.
I am positive that these new mag springs will solve one problem that I did have in the past with my guns. On occasion, sometimes with the 3 and 4th or 2nd and 3rd rounds in the mag(counting from the top), after I would fire, these rounds would wind up both pointing straight up together in the mag. This had to be caused by the recoil of such a light gun in a relatively potent caliber and the what has been commented on here before, the seemingly weak generation 1 mag springs.
I have every confidence that this modification will increase the reliability of my R9's without requiring that I use the 3 types of ammo in my guns that were always 100% reliable.
As I wrote way, way back when I got my first R9, I love this gun and was/am determined to make it work for me.
Mike