Early type steel AR-15 waffle pattern magazine diassembly
Dear friends,
need your help for a second.
the early type steel AR-15 waffle pattern magazines (brownells offers them also as a reproduction with their new retro line) have no hole in the baseplate like the later G.I. 30rds aluminium ones.
Normally you stick something (tip of a bullet) in that hole and raise the baseplate and slide it off.
The steel waffle pattern mags, just like the 20rds G.I. alluminum ones of the NAM era don't have that "disassembly hole" but what seems like a spring loaded cross bolt section in the baseplate.
Can you help me out and tell me how to disassemble these mags without bending, marring, scratching the baseplate?
Thanks a lot
dusty_dragon