Do you have safety lockout device in P30? Did someone tried to rack slide with device locked?
Good question. My first thought was a bent Hammer Strut and just happens to coincide with you switching the backstraps.
The changeable back straps on the p30 do not contain the lockout device.
Ha, I never realized that the p2000 back straps did.
All of them that are sold in the U.S. Older models (pre-Clinton era) did not have the lockout device.
I don't know how a picture would help. I eject the magazine. It will only come out 1/4" before some sort of friction stops it from free falling from the mag well. The pistol does not exhibit this behavior with the small or medium backstraps, or without one entirely.
Yes, there's a safety lockout, but I can't remember having ever turned it on.
It's entirely possible I may have tried to rack the slide with the lockout engaged. I don't recall ever trying this, however. I did buy it used, so there's that... Additionally, I field stripped the pistol and can't find any point where the spring or strut are intruding into the magwell. It's almost as if the large backstrap is placing pressure on the entire magazine well. The friction starts just below the magazine catch.
Thanks, Apollo. Good suggestions. It seems to me the large backstrap is grabbing the backstrap on the frame too tightly, causing the polymer mag well to deform, thus binding the magazine. That makes some semblance of sense to me, as the L backstrap panel is the hardest for me to install, whereas the medium and small grips easily slide on. Perhaps the L backstrap is out of spec?
I looked for this as well, and felt down into the area with my finger while variously pulling the trigger (compressing the spring) and working the magazine release lever, but it is clearly not intruding into the magazine well. Thanks for the suggestion though.
As it SHOULD. However his is not, and the polymer is compressible.
