Wilson Magazine Issues

Highly doubtful, I've ran thousands of rounds already through this gun, haven't had any major issues. With Kimber magazines it works fine. I've had the gun for a little over two years now. All the springs on it has been replaced with Wilson's which is essentially from Wolff. Have also swapped out the plastic MSH with a stainless steel one also from Wilson.

I have to admit though, perhaps the Wilson magazine design may be the issue. When I was putting in the MSH from Wilson it was a few mm too tall, and I had to file it down in order for it to fit. So it is not out of the question that the specs from Kimber may not be similar to Wilson's.
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Kimber mags are Checkmates. Send the Wilsons back buy more checkmates or Kimbers and move on. While I agree that a 1911 should feed reliably from any mag these days so many people, like Wilson and Kimber, treat the orginal JMB as suggestion instead of a blue print that different combinations simply do not work. In the best of all possible worlds yes they would all run but in the end that is rarely the case anymore.

1911 parts for all their claims are almost never "drop in". Does not surprise me the mainspring required a little fitting.

Wilson mags are a love hate sort of thing. Many people swear by them others not so much. I used to drink the koolaid on them but have since moved on. There are other cheaper mags that function as well or better. IMHO
 
"1911s tend to be mag finicky."

IIRC, 3 million or so M1911's and M1911A1's and 20 million or so magazines from a half dozen sources didn't have that problem until companies started making out-of-spec junk for the civilian market.

"Specs, what are specs? We don't care about no steenking specs."

Jim
 
James K said:
IIRC, 3 million or so M1911's and M1911A1's and 20 million or so magazines from a half dozen sources didn't have that problem until companies started making out-of-spec junk for the civilian market.

"Specs, what are specs? We don't care about no steenking specs."
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It's that attitude combined with the kutzpah of thinking they know better than John M. Browning that creates problems. I know a person from the M1911.org forum tried the then-new Wilson Combat ETM magazines -- in a Colt Combat Commander. The magazine locked up the gun. Tight. So tight he had to clamp the slide in a vise and drive the receiver out of the slide with a hammer.

He sent the gun and the mag to Wilson. They determined that the gun (remember -- a Colt) was "out-of-spec." Curiously, all reports indicate that NO other brand of magazine has any problem in that same pistol: Colt, Metalform, CheckMate, Kimber, Tripp, Chip McCormick, Chinese counterfeit "GI" mags from gun shows. Only the ETMs from Wilson. But ... the gun was out-of-spec.

There are some 1911 parts I'll cheerfully buy from Wilson Combat. Magazines is (are) not one of them.

As for limp wristing -- it's real, and I've seen it with students who are raw rookies, or just making the transition from rimfires to centerfire pistols. BUT ... it shouldn't occur in a properly functioning 1911. 1911Tuner, who posts here from time to time, reportedly has fired 1911s one-handed and using just the thumb and second finger to hold the pistol .. and had no malfunctions.
 
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