1911 Magazine Question

[Mahzik]

I've been happy with the Act-Mag as well. They are OEM manufacturer for some other 1911 magazines.

http://www.act-mag.com/index.php/id-1911-mags.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

here's a whole forum dedicated to 1911 magazine:
http://forum.m1911.org/forumdisplay.php?f=53" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

OK, I went to the 1911 magazine forum and will admit that I'm totally confused! Those guys/gals are way beyond my level of understanding. I don't even think I want to get that technical about how magazines work!

[APynckel]

I run nothing but wilson combat mags.

[AEA]

Guess I'll try to take them back to the store and order some from Tripp Research.

Thanks for all of the advice. I'll report back after I've taken they are delivered and I've had a chance to go to the range.

How did you make out with the Tripp mags?

Mine are ordered and I should have them Tuesday. I edited my original post in this thread and decided to get the best. So I put the ED Brown factory mags (Checkmates) and the Springfield factory mags (also Checkmates) back in their gun boxes and will use Tripp exclusively.

[Mahzik]

Guess I'll try to take them back to the store and order some from Tripp Research.

Thanks for all of the advice. I'll report back after I've taken they are delivered and I've had a chance to go to the range.

How did you make out with the Tripp mags?

Mine are ordered and I should have them Tuesday. I edited my original post in this thread and decided to get the best. So I put the ED Brown factory mags (Checkmates) and the Springfield factory mags (also Checkmates) back in their gun boxes and will use Tripp exclusively.

I ordered 2 7-round magazines and and 2 8-round magazine with base pads that fit my STI Guardian and have not had a single problem with them. That includes a training class where I went through about 250 rounds in 3 hours or so. I'm very happy and would highly recommend the Tripp Research magazines.

[nablock]

Good to know the Tripp mags worked out for you! I may have to give them a shot, especially if I end up getting the STI Shadow I have my sights on....

I run WC 47D mags in my Sig 1911 Extreme, and they feed reliably. The one issue I had with them, was that the magazines would not feed when I racked the gun, only when I released the slide. After looking over the mags, and not finding anything particularly wrong about their construction, I contacted Wilson for advice. They couldn't see anything wrong from my pictures either, and asked me to send them in for engineering to look them over. Before shipping them out, I decided to test them one more time. At this point, I realized that the mags were not locking into the magwell. Once I slapped the mags in with a reasonable amount of force, they seeded properly, and the feeding issues went away. This may be an issue with the 8 round mags being slightly too large for the Sig 1911 design, but they do not seem to be causing any internal issues.