I was reading and article I found on line by Mr Ayoob (all hail Massad) concerning 1911 magazines for the 1911 45 ACP. It was the usual type stuff, ie Wilson combat yes, USG issue no for serious work.
Hopefully this post does not break down into what is the best 1911 Mag discussion, there is plenty of opinions and documentation on that topic already.
My request for information is quite specific and centered around magazine’s for the 1911 45 ACP to shoot SWC bullets.
One section caught my eye though:
“It came with magazines I hadn’t seen before, their lips flared toward the front instead of tapered. Shooters with more experience than I had learned that GI spec magazines designed for 230-grain round-nose Full Metal Jacket weren’t 100% with the semi-wadcutter match loads used in bulls-eye matches. The same would turn out to be true with the jacketed hollow points that were only then coming into popularity.”
Unfortunately the article did not include a picture of what he is describing. Does anyone have a picture of the two styles of magazines?
I now have moulds for both the 200g SWC and 220g RN bullets and Ill eventually (when they hit the shelves again) pick up some FMJ and/or plated. I am still going thru the teething pains of new gun (Springfield w/factory mags) and loads in a caliber I have no experience in loading for. I also have yet to amass the apparently mandatory homer bucket full of magazines to fiddle with. My first 2 outings were less than stellar, I went straight to cast boolits (no factory anything on the shelf), the 200g Lyman SWC (-460) mould did fairly well but jammed up a couple of times, the LEE 200g SWC with the same powder load was horrible and jammed up randomly at least once a magazine both were very accurate with no leading though.