Looks like trying to find magazines for the P210 is an impossible task. Anyone have any leads on where I can pick up magazines for a P210-6?

Buy Legend magazines and a stack of 225 base plates. You need to file the back of the 225 base plates down a touch where the 210 mag catch engages it, and you'll be gtg. Less than half the cost.

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Originally posted by Shackelford:
Buy Legend magazines and a stack of 225 base plates. You need to file the back of the 225 base plates down a touch where the 210 mag catch engages it, and you'll be gtg. Less than half the cost.

Hey Shack. You mean P225 baseplates correct? I've spent three hours searching for magazines. I didn't realize there was a solution using the legend mags and P225 base plates. Thanks for the info.

Then you have to find legend and 225 mags. Roco has been source for mags fwiw

I've seen magazines quite often on GB. Nice ones normally sell for $150 each, give or take. Here's one that is in 'well used' condition: http://www.gunbroker.com/item/676170549



It's not mine and I do not know the seller!

I made a so called "frankenmag" a few years ago for my 210-6 using a Legend mag and a 225 base plate. Works great !

Mike

The P225 baseplate is an option, but not necessary. I just ground a flat spot on the Legend magazine baseplate.

Legend_Mod2_zps52650780 by GaryBF, on Flickr


Legend_Mod_zps7922f599 by GaryBF, on Flickr

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Originally posted by GaryBF:
The P225 baseplate is an option, but not necessary. I just ground a flat spot on the Legend magazine baseplate.

Legend_Mod2_zps52650780 by GaryBF, on Flickr


Legend_Mod_zps7922f599 by GaryBF, on Flickr

Nice job Gary! Thanks for the pictures. Looks like a winner! I'll buy a couple of Legend magazines and grind them down.

I used an old style P210 stamped floorplate on a new Legend mag. Required no modification,fit perfectly, works perfectly in old and new guns.

Wonder what SIG was thinking when they made the magazines non-interchangeable by using a floorplate just a tiny bit too thick at the rear?

Old P210s don't matter and a new floorplate, with slight finger rest, will look new and improved?

At one time Roco Firearms had floorplates made for the legend magazines where they were compatible with the swiss guns. They looked nice.
Not sure if they still have these or not. Basically what Gary did.

I filed my Legend floorplate - but a bit more radically than Gary. I cut a notch that gets the back 1/4" down to the same dimensions as a stamped mag floor plate.

I posted a thread about it in 2014, but it is lost in time, I guess.

*Follow up - I was fine with grinding down the base plates on the legend magazines, but I ran across a guy selling NIB Swiss P210 base plates for $20 a piece so I bought 6 and swapped out the base plates on the legend magazines. Not cheap, mags were $67 each plus $20 per plate, but they function perfectly. Picture shows the original swiss mag on the left and legend mag w/swiss plate on right.