I recently was the lucky recipient of a malfunction I've never actually had/seen before. I was swapping mags from an empty to my first reload mag, gun up and turned to accept the mag, mag goes in no worries, but as I slammed it home the butt plate came off in my hand at which point the mag took a dump on the ground in spectacular fashion.
This was with one of my "carry mags" too. It's fairly new, maybe in use 4 months and clean so it's not and was not full of crud. Now the mag release doesn't pop out mags so well after the spring goes bouncing along the ground. So I had to go dig it out with my finger, which was no issue with this magazine, if it had been a 1911 with a mag well and single stack mag that might have been a different story or maybe a different finger...
Anyone see this before? I'm assuming it's not that uncommon but I've never experienced it before. It got me to wondering if there's a way to check for something like this before it happens. I clean my mags, maybe once a year, and don't normally see anything but a little carbon build up and case crud.
The mag went right back together and ran fine the rest of my session. No clue how it happened in the first place. I never actually heard anyone talk or post about this so I thought I'd bring it up in a place others may have seen it.
Any thoughts?