Posted: 3/4/2006 7:07:24 PM EDT
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I picked up a 1911 today in a trade. I shot it after my IDPA match and it shoots really well. Sights are dead on, the trigger is perfect, the grip is very natural and the it's well balanced. The only issue that I have seen is that the mags don't always drop free. About 1/2 the time they drop and the other half they have to be pulled out (with a very light tug). This of course is only a problem if I need to clear a malfunction or reload and the mag sticks. The gun is a Kimber Pro Carry SLE. Any idea on what the problem might be and how to resolve it? Is it something that I can have corrected cheap? |
I think that this is the problem. I fooled with inserting an empty mag while the action was open and looking down the mag well. It looks like the mag release juts into the mag well on the left side when it is depressed and it is wedging the mag against the mag well just enough to keep it from falling out. I don't know jack about fooling with 1911's mechanically. Would it be difficult or expensive to replace the mag release? I wonder if it just needs to be cleaned real good??? 
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Back off some of the grip screws, this may likely be your problem... Take slide off and run your fingers around inside the mag well, see if there is anything sticking out. Wilson mags are great when they are new, then they go to shit, quickly, run the CMC Powerball mags and get the Tripp followers. The old Wilson's were great, the new ones are not as great, if you shoot a lot, you will be replacing springs and followers a lot. If you leave them loaded, the bodies and feed lips will spread, they are still better than most of the shit magazines on the market though. |
Learn to strip mags. It always works. 100% of the time. |
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www.trippresearch.com/ My WILSON mags are all 100% reliable, all several years old, and none have needed new springs. They have survived years and years of abuse, getting dropped, kicked/stepped on etc., years of IPSC, and IDPA. Never had to do anything but clean them. +1 on checking for burrs. also check the plunger tube, the two ends that go inside the gun. Sometimes when they get staked, it creats a burr. |
Less that $20 and 2 min to replace. I could do it blindfolded, very easy. But probably not necessary. I would clean it good first could just be gunk sticking the release. |
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I would do the simplest things first such as cleaning the mag well and the mags in question before grinding and/or filling any thing. And I would also number the mags and check to see if they mags stick on the same mag or on different mags. Maybe one is a little different from the other. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My friend has a Springfield Armory Omega/Peters-Stahl top section in 10mm auto for his 1911 S.A. frame. It has dual extractors, polygonal rifling, a Magna-Port type holes in the slide to control muzzle flip and recoil. From what I understand it was available in both 10mm and 45ACP. BUT.... if you happen to break an extractor or firing pin you will be SOL, there is no known source of parts in the USofA. I don't know how accurate this is but, www.home.earthlink.net/~gnappi/10mm-gun.htm#springfield
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My old ones work great... It's the new ones that are not as good as they used to be. I bought 10 new ones last year, they all went to shit. I sent them back (Wilson does indeed replace them for free) and sold the new ones. Like I said, they are fine magazines, but the bodies on the CMC Powerballs are much better (and cheaper $$ too). IBT "some government/mil agency/unit uses Wilson's so they are the best" post... Yes, they do, and they throw them away when they go bad. The "G" has that kind of money, most of us don't. |