Can you identify these magazines?

[Boolit_Head]

While going through my Father in laws things after he passed we found these two magazines hidden in some old bowling shoes. Strange thing is he never possessed a semi auto handgun other than a Nambu he brought back from WW2. They appear to be 9mm and blued steel but other than that I am drawing blanks. Any ideas?


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[browntown]

Look like beretta 92's at quick glance, but I haven't had one in a couple years to compare. Browning highpower maybe. Mec-gar made beretta's mags. m9's generally said us gov or a nsn number. Any markings?

[Boolit_Head]

Not a mark on them surprisingly. I've wondered if my Brother in laws got a hold of something and he put them away for safekeeping. But knowing my shiftless brothers in law it would have been a cheap Taurus rather than a Beretta.

[tazman]

There is no magazine catch hole in the front of either mag where the hole would have to be for the mags to be for either a Beretta 92fs or a Taurus pt92.
Other than that, the construction is very similar to that of a model 92 mag.

[Mk42gunner]

I don't remember any mag with the witness holes located where those are, but they do look a lot like Beretta or Taurus mags. Maybe SIG 226?

Seems to me the Beretta and Taurus clone had heel type mag catches prior to entering the US Army trials. I don't remember if the 226 was ever that way or not.

Robert

[browntown]

Camp 9 maybe had the same oval indent on the bottom

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[Lloyd Smale]

I agree with the others. Looks like beretta 92 mags to me

[Expat74]

My guess it's a Ruger P-85/89 or something in that ballpark. Maybe an aftermarket part.

How many do you fit in? 9mm? .40? Is the follower plastic or steel?

[Ragnarok]

Look like after market P89 mags

[Boolit_Head]

Follower is plastic and appears to be sized for 40 cal, one slipped right in like it was made for it.

[edp2k]

Tazman nailed it.

Looksee. No mag catch slot :)

That means the pistol had a mag catch on the heal (bottom of the grip frame).
I know the real early Beretta 92 had a heal mag catch. Some time before 1985, probably way before.
Also maybe for the Beretta 84, kind of like a 380 version of the 92. Early versions had a heal mag catch.

[FergusonTO35]

So there is not a mag catch hole even on the front of the mag body, as for a Ruger?

[Boolit_Head]

Which of those early modes were for 40cal though?

[solderboy]

Looks like there is a notch in the front per the photo in the OP, about 2/3 of the way to top. I think it's for a Ruger. The P91 is a 40 cal version of the P89

[tazman]

The magazines I have for my Beretta 92FS will hold 40S&W as if they were made to. You really can't use them in a Beretta 100 though because the feed timing is a little different. They will work somewhat but are unreliable in that useage. Lots of failures to feed.

Solderboy---I think you may be right about the hole in the front of that magazine. I didn't notice that. I thought it was a reflection.

[rosewood]

The magazines I have for my Beretta 92FS will hold 40S&W as if they were made to. You really can't use them in a Beretta 100 though because the feed timing is a little different. They will work somewhat but are unreliable in that useage. Lots of failures to feed.

Solderboy---I think you may be right about the hole in the front of that magazine. I didn't notice that. I thought it was a reflection.
With a little dremel work u can enlarge the mag catch of the beretta and will work perfectly in taurus.

[edp2k]

Back on topic,
lets see a pic of the front of the mag.

Really cant tell from the original pic if there is a mag catch hole in the front of the mag.

[tazman]

With a little dremel work u can enlarge the mag catch of the beretta and will work perfectly in taurus.

Yes you can. I have done it and it works perfectly.

[Boolit_Head]

Back on topic,
lets see a pic of the front of the mag.

Really cant tell from the original pic if there is a mag catch hole in the front of the mag.


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[solderboy]

That is where the hole is on my P89 mag.

[FergusonTO35]

That looks like a Ruger P series aftermarket or early factory mag.