Guys,
I keep CORBON DPX ammo loaded for home defense in my P220. If you're not familiar with it, it uses Barnes XPB bullets, which have wonderful terminal ballistics in tests.
Anyway, the nose of the bullets stick out just a little farther than regular 45 ACP. I imagine this is because of the lighter density of the copper projectile.
Anyway, I have a new OEM magazine that has some lips stamped into the body of the magazine, apparently to keep the 2nd round from the top from edging forward as the top round is stripped from the magazine.
The problem is, I can't load the DPX rounds into this magazine, even with a HKS 451 magloader. It seems the dimple won't allow the round to go far enough back into the magazine tube to allow the nose to pass by the front edge.
The rounds fit wonderfully into the old mags, and my ACT MAG, and they fed flawlessly too when I test fired two boxes of ammo for confidence.
Anyone else experience the problem?
Here's a pic. The new mag on left, the old mag on right. The new mag has a plastic follower, the old mag was upgraded with a
steel follower from Brownells. Also, old followers will not fit the new mag, cause they don't have a relief cut to pass by the dimple near the top.