I’ve never really cared much for the magazine brake. I don’t know why, but anything but drop-free magazines just seems wrong to me.

Pretty easy to fix it. Remove grips, push out a pin retaining the upper portion of the brake, press down on the main spring plug to take tension off the main spring plug pin, push that out, SLOWLY release the tension on the main spring and viola: You can remove your magazine brake.

From here flatten it out and trim of about the last 1/8″ of the brake. I didn’t bother trying to put a curve on the end of it to get it to go around the main spring plug pin. I’m just going to let it sit in the slot and call it good.

Once I got it to the right size I put the main spring, plug, and pin back in then reinstalled the brake.

Pretty easy. It took about an hour.

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