Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
That's because the right spring in picture belongs to a #1Mk3 rifle magazine. When you look at them you see they're different. As stated your mag needs to be fitted when new and then stay with the rifle. They're mild steel and can be twisted so they misfeed. The one that pops rounds out needs lips reshaped. They should snap in cleanly or the spine needs to be altered a touch. Peter Laidlericon spoke of having buckets of them salvaged and just sliver soldering a new locking spine on before fitting.
That's interesting. Are you saying that because of the increased curvature on the left side? It does resemble the follower in my No 1, Mk III. I know that the mag bodies are different, they are not interchangeable between rifles, but I did not know that the followers are different. This is odd in that it came from a No 4 mag. I'll take a look at Laidler's stuff.

On the issue of the Savage mag, how would I go about reshaping it? A bit of hammering with a ball-peen?