Magazines for a 1911

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FlyboyAZ

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Help me out with finding some good inexpensive magazines for a Kimber. It looks like the 8 round Kimber factory mags are $15. I have also seen 7 round GI Surplus mags in the wraper for less than $10. Will these function well? Obviously I would like the higher capacity mags. Any advice on 1911 mags would be very much appreciated.
 
1911 mags

in my experience the factory mags i got, high quility ones, have not performed as well as the ones i bought from magtech, both being 7 rounds. a friend of mine suggested polishing and/or sanding the follower to make it smoother, which has worked but now performance is again degrading in my springfield mags so i am tempted to just throw them away as i can get magtech mags for 10-19 dollars
 
A mechanic friend of mine has issues with folks who buy expensive cars and then skimp on the maintenance or who buy performance cars and use regular octane instead of high octane that is supposed to be used.

"Cheap" should not be your first criterion for a magazine, especially if for defense or competition. You may find your gun likes a brand of cheap magazine, and that is lucky for you, but smart money goes for quality.
 
don't

"skimp" on the magazines....go with the best you can afford...among those I would chose would be: Wilson, McCormick , etc.

The leading cause of malfunction in l911-style pistols, and indeed most semi-auto's are poorly made magazines.....

If you're going to use this weapon for home defense or ccw, buy the very best you can afford.....:)
 
If you wanted to buy "cheep" magazines, why didn't you buy a cheep gun to go with them.

I carried 1911s for over 20 years. When someone asks me about magazines I always say "Wilson". YMMV!
 
Wilson Combat magazines and Chip McCormick PowerMags are my preferred magazines. I've yet to have any failure due to magazine problems with these two, but the older Springfield magazines have cause me problems in the past (not sure who made them)
 
For use with ball profile ammo I use nothing but WWII GI magazines; they are made RIGHT. Price is low, but in this case low price does not mean low quality. But there are a lot of fakes out there, so be sure you know what you are getting. Some of the high price clones don't even have hardened feed lips.

Jim
 
Flyboy,

I didn't know you bought a Kimber - lucky you :)

To jump onto this thread.. Wilson is great for CCW, home defense, etc.. but if you are using a 1911 strictly as a range gun, with 230gr FMJ's, I'd be more interested in purchasing 4-7 GI mags for the price of 1 Wilson, if the GI mags work well. And considering the wartime history of the 1911.. I'd imagine that they do!
 
Thanks for the advice. I will have to look at the Wilson and McCormick because these seem like the definite favorite. The gun will be carried ccw prety soon so it sounds like these are the only way to go. Does anyone have the webpage for these two?

Foxy, We will have to go out and have some fun before you leave for the summer. Don't be jellous, just get yourself one.

JD
 
In 7 rounders mecgar mags work great and the price would qualify as cheap but the quality isn't. I have a bunch of them for my kimber. Mark
 
You get what you pay for !

Congrats on getting your Kimber I have two myself and I'm real happy with both. The only problem I had was with the mags I got with the guns. The last Military 1911s came out in 1945 and the guns as well as the magazines have come a long way since then. I would go with the Wilsons myself, but if you get the GIs for range work be ready to throw a few of them away. Most of the stories you hear about the 1911 being un reliable comes from bad mags.
 
when I got a 1911, it came with one magazine of unknown mfr. After all the reading and research I did, I decided would just buy the "good ones". I got several Chip McCormick mags and they worked without failure. Later I came across a deal on some GI mags that were really cheap so I got several of those figuring they'd be good for range work. They too worked just fine without any failures yet. I did carefully examine and handpick the ones I bought from the hundreds that were in the box when being sold.
 
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