High capacity mags for Walther P99

Well, checked out my P88 and P99 again. The P88 full sized mag WILL fit in the P99.

I'm not sure how I got the P88 mag to obstruct in the P99 the first time around. (It was done awhile ago.) Maybe I was thinking of another set of guns.

Anyways, I correct myself with the help of others.
 
In the long run isn't it smarter to carry more 10 rds mags? I mean you carry 1-16 rd mag in the pistol & 1-16 rd mag for back up thats 32 rds. 1-10 rd mag in the pistol & 2-10 rd mags for back up thats 30 rds.
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True, but who wants to carry 2 spare mags all the time, myself I carry the P99, w/15+1, spare mag with 15 rounds (I download 1 to save the springs), and a Surefire 6p light, a cell phone, and a pager, I don't have room for another mag. Not to mention the extra 5 rounds are INSIDE the first mag, that is a little extra time before a reload.
Besides the P99 was DESIGNED for 16+1, why not get 16+1?
 
2-16 rd mags cost $220. The pistol comes with 2-10 rd mags. spend $105 on 3-10 rd mags now I have 5 mags. The xtra $115 can be put towards a holster/double mag pouch & night sights. I mean is it that hard to speed load a new mag? I saw a web site selling 16 rd LEO only mags for $25. The price for 16 rd mags, that aren't LEO only, $125. Talk about price gouging. I remember firearms training back in the 80s w/ a revlover. In a gunfight after reloading w/ a speed loader you throw the $5 speed loader on the ground & go back & look for it after the gufight is over. Well the principle is the same with mags. During a gunfight you leave the mag on the ground & look for it latter. Do you want to do that with some thing that costs $110 to replace? I can see someone getting shot because protecting their $110 mag was more important than protecting them self. I'm not spending $110 on an expendable item.
 
I've got the perfect remedy! Everyone go buy the .40 auto version of the P99. The regular magazines only hold 12, so you really can't justify paying $100 for just two more rounds. And you get the power of a .40 to hit those bad guys with! :D

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I'm with NMGlocker on this one. I paid $83.50 each for 2 16-round 9mm mags and I don't regret the purchase. The gun was designed for 16 rounds, so that is what I want in it. Nobody wants to carry more mags than they have to for weight and space issues. I think that the price is worth it for the 16-rounders but not the 12-round 40 mags, FWIW.
 
I've got the perfect remedy! Everyone go buy the .40 auto version of the P99. The regular magazines only hold 12, so you really can't justify paying $100 for just two more rounds. And you get the power of a .40 to hit those bad guys with!
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That's what I did.$75 extra for 2 more rounds is ridiculous but I would probably pay the extra $$ for a 16 rounder.
 
I'll add to the opinions that I want my guns equipped as designed. Piss on the ban. Hell I bought two Glock 20 15rd mags because I found a good price but I don't even own one.....yet.
 
During a gunfight you leave the mag on the ground & look for it latter. Do you want to do that with some thing that costs $110 to replace? I can see someone getting shot because protecting their $110 mag was more important than protecting them self. I'm not spending $110 on an expendable item.
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That has got to be the stupidest argument against paying for a full-capacity magazine that I have EVER heard. You sound like the people I used to ride motorcycles with, they'd spend $15,000 on a bike, and go to KMart and buy a $25 helmet. Thanks, but my life was worth the $500 Shoei helmet, and my life is worth the $100 for a magazine. Its like an insurance policy, you pay all year for it, and hope you never have to use it, but its nice to know its there.
If you don't want to pay for one, fine, but don't use a lame argument like that to try and justify being cheap.
 
I recently bought 6, 16-round Walther magazines for my 9mm P99 from Gunbroker. The first time I bought 2 and they were $85 ea. The next time I bought 4 at $80 ea. Like someone else said, I decided to make the seller an offer without entering the auction. I have no regrets.
 
I can see someone getting shot because protecting their $110 mag was more important than protecting them self. I'm not spending $110 on an expendable item.
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On another note, you do know that if you do have to shoot someone, that $110 magazine will be the least of your financial problems don't you? First your pistol and all your magazines will be confiscated as evidence, you might get it back, you might not, $500 down the drain. Then you will go to jail, and have to get a lawyer and bailbondsman, say another cash outlay of $1000. A few weeks later your criminal trial will start, your friendly lawyer is again by your side, $7500. If it was a justified shooting, your free to go. BUT now the dead BG's relatives line up for the civil trial, you do still have that lawyers phone # don't you, good, here goes another $7500. If by some miracle you win that one, good for you, otherwise, get ready to pay 75% of all your future income to the poor deceased's assorted familial units.
So in a best case scenario, you'll only be out $15,000 or so, that makes that $100 magazine cost rather trivial don't you think?
If your worried about the cost of saving your life, then maybe you need to rethink carrying a pistol for self-defense.
 
jack_the_sailor said:
PT Barnum said it best "There's a sucker born every day" I think he was a visionary who had shooters who pay $100 + for a hi-cap mag in mind.
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NMGlocker said:
You sound like the people I used to ride motorcycles with, they'd spend $15,000 on a bike, and go to KMart and buy a $25 helmet. Thanks, but my life was worth the $500 Shoei helmet,
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I think my original quote still fits. If all you have is a KMart $25 head, then wear a Kmart $25 helmet. Myself i'll spend the money to be the best prepared, best equiped, that I can possibly be.
 
You can talk all the trash you want. I'm not spending $100 + on a mag period. If my pistol & mags get confiscated & not returned thats another reason not to have $100 + mags. I know how to speed reload a mag any way. I'll just carry 2 or 3 xta mags no problem. If you have money to spend $100 on mags. You have too much money. Better send some to me. If I get a Walther P99QA it will be a back up to my G-17. So at most I'll carry the P99QA for the time it takes to have a grip redudtion done on my G-17 & future James Bond movies.
 
If I was worried about my guns being confiscated I would only own a Lorcin or a Jennings and certainly wouldn't have 25? guns in the safe.
 
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