I CCW a 1911, and it'd be nice to have a carbine that uses the same ammo and mags for an everyday travel around truck gun.
Does the 45 AR need a buffer assembly and tube, or would it allow a stock that folds with a hinge point right behind the receiver end plate, i.e. this one? Nevermind...I did some reading....
Originally Posted By Hail Mary:
Get a Marlin Camp Carbine in .45; that takes the 1911 mag.
1) They aren't made anymore.
2) They can cost as much as an AR build, when you find a used one.
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I made a test magwell block that uses 1911 mags. Two issues. The angle of the mag needed to feed properly makes the front of the mag touch the top front of the magwell and the back of the mag touches the back bottom of the magwell. This requires the magwell block to be two pieces. Pain int he ass to mount in the lower.
Second issue is designing a mag catch. Mag is so thin, any catch with need to be very long in order to reach the mag and mag catch slots have o be cut in the mag. Even the Oly Glock lower style mag catch that use the exsisting mag catch slots on the mag would need to very long to reach the thin mag.
A double stack mag like a Para Ordnance mag might be easier to work with.
I've tried it and so far it doesn't work.
I just looked at that by laying a Wilson 10 rd mag, so that the top of the follower was parallel to the bore's axis, and then laying another 10 rd mag in the mag well. I'm not sure we'd be able to get a proper feed angle, because I wasn't able to get the 2nd one to be visually parallel to the first one.
FWIW, even something as short as an 6 round OACP mag will extend out of the magwell about an inch.
If I was wrong about that, I'd consider putting a longer mag catch lever so that it runs parallel to the 1911 mag's body, could use the existing mag catch hole, and with a mag release paddle being the tail of the lever along the right side of the end of the mag (Think of something operating like a M-14 or L1A1 mag release, turned 90
o to the bore axis). I guess that cutting a second mag catch hole wouldn't be unreasonable.