Thanks! Your video is the only one I've found that goes step by step explaining exhaustively. I figured out my screwdriver wasn't quite long enough so I purchased a new one and the install went swimmingly!

You don't need to take out the rod. You can gently pry the rod up with a pair of pliers or something and the old mag release will just slide right out. You can then put the new one in, let go with the pliers, and then hook the rod backwhere it was before you started. Great informative video regardless, thanks!

The last couple Glock Armorer courses I went to suggested using needle nose pliers to just pull the mag catch spring (straight rod) straight up & out. After you use a small flathead to pop the rod out of the mag catch detent. This is way easier. To reinstall, hold mag catch in place, push rod down in its hole all the way, then use the flat tip driver to slide the rod back in place in the catch. No chewing up your gun. I can swap these in about 2mins with no damage & not over bending that rod.

This is a great video!! And I didn’t even have to go to a couple of Glock Armorer classes to be able to do it! Thank you!!!

WOW super instruction, did my shield arms mag catch/release while i watched yo vid, indeed lil pick worked perfect! ty

Excellent. Thank you so much. I watched 2 others and couldn’t make heads or tails of what they said. Your video was perfect. I am going to enjoy 15!

Excellent video, very helpful. Thanks!

Best video on this procedure. Thanks man!

Thanks for the detail. Tricky to show this, but you did it. Helped me!

I feel bad for all the people that are following the second step and taking out the rod. It's not necessary to do that, just take the flat head and bend it outwards while putting in the new release..

Great video- thanks! If you don’t want to go invest in a new tool, you can also use a long corkscrew to scoop the spring out. The shield mag release has a much easier indentation to get the spring back into. Only weird part is that the shield release doesn’t do so great releasing stock Glock mags.

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Great video, I appreciate you making sure we could see everything from varying angles $$

Scratched up the inside trying to do this for 30 minutes with a screwdriver, so i bought some picking tools and did this in a couple minutes 🤦‍♂️. Well gotta give props to your video though it was helpful and quick.

One of the better videos I’ve seen on how to do this. Thank you.

Whoa, great video! Thank you!

Excellent video! Swapped out the rang release in 2 mins! Thank you.

thanks for the video. took me 3 minutes! this was very helpful

I have to admit, at first I was wary of doing this. Especially since now where I live the glock 43x is like a winning lottery ticket, the big box sporting goods and camping/hunting stores have the 43x on their website but no one has it in the store and it's up to 2-4 weeks for delivery. I had an offer by a woman for $850 if I'd sell her the 1 in my holster, I declined. I purchased the s15 combo pack which came with 3 s15 magazines and 1 +5 spring and base plate and upon reading the suggestions, they reccomended changing out the mag release with their metal 1, it's not a must but for better results and not wearing the plastic 1 out I did. I will field strip my guns but I'd rather not mess with the trigger and firing pin mechanisms, however I do have the harbor freight pick set and watching this video made it super simple and I didn't leave 1 scratch or chip getting the spring out of its seat, and putting it back was super easy and simple since getting the pressure off the spring is the most difficult part, if you're like me and dont want to knick it or scratch it up that's all I could think about. Thank you for the video that caters to us laymen who aren't very mechanically inclined or patient. Task took around 5 minutes after watching this and that's being super careful to not mess it up. Now my 43x has new mag release, 4 s15 magazines in total and 2 of them have the +5 extension, I carry in a vertical shoulder harness with 2 extra magazines totaling 56 rounds when I walk out the door. I will be getting 2 more +5 extensions since everything was so simple to install. Those who knock the 43x because other brands have similar sized compacts that hold 12, with shield arms innovations the 43x is capable of carrying a lot of backup power now with glock reliability and peace of mind that comes with them. I have the 43 also and several other compacts but the 43x with these upgrades and efficiency of possible modifications is my go to carry now. Great products from both glock and shield arms, in which I have no affiliation other than just being a satisfied customer.

Curved pick work wonders for this task !! Less scratches on ur frame

I just got mine today’s and tried to put it in with the polymer mag release and the s15 mag just falls off , I’m confused, I have not shot it , just wanted to put it in

Best video explaning this ever 👏 thank you

I'm not sure if I'm using the wrong tools or misunderstood a step. But all I managed to do was scratch the inside of the magazine well to the point I became concerned and stopped. I tried a small flathead screw driver, I tried a dental pick, each time it would just fly off and scratch something. I'll just bite the bullet and take it too an armorer....

Thank you for the video worked flawlessly!

Thanks! Easier than I thought it would be.

Good vidya there lad muy helpful didn't realize it was really that easy

Video is perfect. Thanks!

EXCELLENT VIDEO, DESCRIPTIONS, VISUALS. ALWAYS THUMBS UP!!!!

I scratched the absolute shit out of the inside of my frame doing this and I used a pick. What got it for me was pushing in the mag release. Pushing and holding the pin all the way to the side and then pushing in the other end of the mag release.

Great video! I know it's hard to show the groove though where the spring rod is supposed to go so that was a bit hard to see. But, once I field strip my pistol, I'm sure I can figure it out. Thank you!

Thank you. Great video

I took a punch and lined it up on the straightest wall of the side of my mag release.... And BASHED the mag release in... It worked great

Great Video, i followed step by step by step and I was able to actually do the opposite of what you are doing here. My shield arms mag and release aren’t properly feeding and causing a FTF or jam between rounds. I have switched back to the factory mag release and magazine until I get the issue resolved. Great video and thanks again!!

Like others have said, go to Harbor Freight and get their $2 mini pick set, and push the release from the back side as your are prying the pin. Make sure to press the hook on the end of the pick under the pin and it should pop out. Also, you can leave the pin in and just slide the new release in while prying the pin up. Super easy to push the pin back in place once it’s in.

You can also get this done without removing the spring, pry the spring over the mag release using the hole on the non dominant side.

Great video. Thank you.

Thanks for the vid. Took 2-mins to swap it. I used a curved pick tool & the spring popped out super fast. Question... is it safe to use the OEM mags with the metal release (for extra mags)

Finally fuckin got it after trying out a new set of tools. I hate that I’ve scratched the inside of my Glock to hell though

This was “IMMENSLEY” helpful.

Excellent video ,

AWSOME Thanks !!

great video, thanks!

great vid bro thank you

If you're going to switch the release to the other side, do you need to do anything different?

To make this lefty friendly is there anything other than putting the metal mag release in backwards and pushing the pin back toward opposite side?

Thank you kindly for this video

Prepare to mare the inside of the magwell. Holy shit!

Good stuff sir! I have ordered two of the Shield Arms 15 rounders. I also need to order the metal mag release, but have not yet.

So does that little small thin metal piece that’s holding the mag release supposed to be stuck stuck and hard to get out?

I have a Glock store and armorer right down the street. Guess where I'm taking mine? This installation looks like a PITA!

Does your mag release have a thunk type sound while ejecting a full magazine? Almost as if it gets caught up for a nanosecond on the opposite side?

Any tips to get that shim spring out , mine won’t pop out .

I noticed the new metal mag catch is significantly stiffer to push in than the Glock plastic.

Can you still use the Glock 43x manufacturer magazine after you swap it out?

I’m gonna try using Tipton polymer pics for the job.

I tried to install the shield mag extensions on a glock Pmag and it wouldn’t work. Am I on the wrong here or are shield mag extensions only compatible with original glock mag ?

Does this void the warranty? My extractor is broken on my new 43x and I’m gonna make a claim. I had this done after buying it.

I can't understand why but it simply doesn't work for me on my 43x. I've got the nice thick pick set and don't have any problems with the same task on my g19. no matter how hard I twist and pull on my 43x it will not budge. I'm marring the hell out of the inside of my frame. This really sucks

You don’t have to pull the spring bar out, you can work around it

they make this shit so difficult to remove a damn spring, I followed the directions and this damn rod doesn't want to move. Why can't they just make this process easier, like everything else in the world.

I'm thinking about getting shield arms mags for my glock 43x

Well done

Would the aluminum mag release cause damage to the original polymer mag

Don’t use the OEM mags at all after doing this. My oem mag was literally stuck in the gun. Had to force it out and ruined the mag.

Just got the mags and getting 15 rounds in it is a little tough. Anyone else experience this?

So I just bought shield arms mags and am about to swap the release but my mag does not stick at all

Thanks!

Yeah I have been trying to pull that pin out of there for about an hour now. Now the inside of my brand-new Glock is all scratched up and I still can’t get it out of there.

I think this was the hardest thing that I ever had to do on a Glock. Close second was removing the baseplate off the mags without the Glock Tool... Triggers, Slides, EZPZ! Mag Catch and Mag Plates? Not so much...

First time ever having done any gun work myself, after figuring out why my slide wouldn't release (TIP: depress trigger) i literally had the old release out and the new one in/slide installed complete in a minute and a half, very easy. (also having a little hook tool does really help to unseat that rod).

I just bought a brand new 43X 5 days ago. I got the shield arms mag catching today. I cannot for the life of me get the old one out no matter what I do. The one I have in my gun doesn't look anything like the one in this video or any other video. It is the most frustrating thing I have seen with guns here lately.

I dicked around for 10 minutes. Then found your video… thanks !!! Great job!!!

Tha spring sucks. I scratch the side of the plastic when lift out

I CANNOT get this damn spring out

good god dude a 90 second job turned into a 11 minute video

You don't need to take out the tension rod!!

Can deconstruct most guns, that s mag release is pissing me off, though I don't have the correct tools now.

Just fyi it won’t drop the polymer magazines freely

Who makes that holster?

No need to remove that pin out to remove or install the mag catch

👍🏾

If you change the mag rls then u cant use factory mags anymore...

How the hell do you get the slide off so easy

you never inserted the new nag to prove that it worked or demonstrated how the stock mags behave with the new mag release...

The mag isn’t bigger because of the material num nuts, it’s single stack vs double stack

Good Job... thanks for sharing - New Subscriber: The Glock OEM mag release will work with the S15 mags but, metal mags working against a plastic mag release will 'eventually' cause the the plastic mag release to fail. It just makes sense to dump the plastic for metal with your first order of S15 mags and never have to think about it again (IMHO). All my mags will be S15's from here on out and the two OEM mags being held back for "SHTF, Alamo Last Stand Do Or Die" duty anyway. - I run and EDC a (black) Glock 48 as well.

Took me about an hour. Watched multiple videos & now the inside all scratched up lololol

Am I the only one having an issue with my standard mags getting stuck??

All that work and you don’t insert the mag to see if it works.

So easy. 2 minutes, no scratch and not a gunsmith. Idk.

Dude you don't have to pull the spring out to change the mag release. Once you remove it from the mag catch groove it slides right out. Get a clue before you mislead people

What a pain in the ass this was. Took me straight up 20 minutes or more with a dental pick and sweat blood etc. finally got it out then putting the thing back in place took 4 seconds. Getting that little bitch out from under the factory mag catch is awful though.

Man I’m just scratching up this poor gun

Your Intro Is WAY To Loud

pain in the ass to get it out wth

not a fucking way my gun can be done with this shit screwdriver, been doing an hour, it's fkn stuck and has so much pressure to it

Ie

Thanks for the video, but that intro music is the worst noise ive ever heard.🤮

Shield Arms has serious quality control issues and are not dependable!

Sorry,crappy video If I did not know how to do it. I would not be clear from your attempt