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Have any of you right handed folks changed the mag release from the left to the right side of the gun so that you can drop the magazine with the trigger finger.
I am considering this change since I have to shift the gun in my hand to press the release with my thumb.
Thanks in advance.
Jeff
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I did. My reloads are faster than they were with the P30's paddle release. I won't go back.Originally Posted by G-lock
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Just thought that I would put my 2 cents in here. I am a lefty and have been shooting handguns for alot of years. Being left handed one of my thoughts when buying a new gun is how well I can operate it left handed. A few of mine have had the option of switching the mag release to the right side in order to use my thumb for mag releases. I tried it on a few but never felt it was the best option for me so I switched it back. I am able to have faster more controlled releases and reloads by using my trigger finger then my thumb and this holds true for all my guns that I have ever shot and I am suprised that more right handed shooters haven't tried it. Anyway as I said, just my 2 cents.
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Just what I was looking for. Thanks Gents.
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Switched mine to the right side to make the mag release more like my HK pistols. It worked great for mag changes, but the mag release button was too exposed and I'd frequently unseat a magazine in my IWB holster when sitting or bumping up against things. A recontoured button that is less prone to this would be great. Apex, are you listening?
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I was worried about this as well, especially considering it is exposed with my holster, but I haven't had mine unseat once in 6-7 months.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer."
— Frank Zappa
If the gun goes dry I use my knife. If the knife breaks off I use my teeth. I have only one rule - Start one job and see it through - The universe will have to offer someone else the leftovers. Multi tasking doesn't work in business or in gunfighting.
- Michael de Bethencourt
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As a lefty, who use left side magazine release at about everything, I have some advice. Try to use your middle finger instead of trigger finger. For me it makes release faster, shift gun less (if any) and safer. Last one came from hand mechanics that forces trigger finger out of trigger guard and up on slide to operate release with middle finger. Using trigger finger can make finger to use "short cut" way toward magazine release.... and this short cut is just across trigger face and... boom (seen that by other shooters using trigger finger to operate magazine release).
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this is what lefties do on almost all button mag release firearms... it's a good way to go in my opinion.
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mine kept dumping mag when in my vehicle, IWB and release on the left. switched it to the right and have not had a problem with it and much quicker.
must have been from my dunlop.
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thought about it, but it would be the same or slower than what I do now.
I (right handed, mag release on left side) use my middle finger. I open up my grip a little but to depress button, but when I fully grasp again, the gun is in the same position it was.
Also, when I do it, the gun automatically tips the magwell to the right to hit the button, then I pull the magwell to the left to insert mag, then pull finger off release while inserting mag. It forces the magazine out, like the pistol version of the "magpul mag change throw move" they do.
Fast, Efficient, and makes sure your mag is NOT in your gun while your trying to shove another one in there.
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