Didn't these pistols also come in .380 (9mm Kurtz)? Maybe one magazine is for a .32 and the other is for .380.
Dan
Dan
37M and P.37 Pistol Magazine Followers are Different!
I was wondering why one of my Hungarian 37M magazines was only holding 6 rounds of ammo, as opposed to the standard 7.
Well I discovered disassembling it, along with my P.37 magazine, and another 37M magazine, that the two models have different length followers and my one 37M magazine has a P.37 follower in it! Perhaps it was replaced at some point or it was a mistake at the factory as the two models were being made concurrently.
So the P.37 follower has a longer back extension, thus bottoming out sooner in the magazine body. I did a little experiment and you can in fact get eight 32 ACP cartridges in a magazine with a 37M follower but it was a little tough getting the last round in so perhaps they wanted to retain the 7 round capacity to avoid potential feeding issues with an 8th round crammed into the magazine.
Oh well, I have one "reduced capacity" magazine!
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Well I discovered disassembling it, along with my P.37 magazine, and another 37M magazine, that the two models have different length followers and my one 37M magazine has a P.37 follower in it! Perhaps it was replaced at some point or it was a mistake at the factory as the two models were being made concurrently.
So the P.37 follower has a longer back extension, thus bottoming out sooner in the magazine body. I did a little experiment and you can in fact get eight 32 ACP cartridges in a magazine with a 37M follower but it was a little tough getting the last round in so perhaps they wanted to retain the 7 round capacity to avoid potential feeding issues with an 8th round crammed into the magazine.
Oh well, I have one "reduced capacity" magazine!
