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06-14-2014, 11:05 PM
I put the word problem in quote marks because maybe it is not so much of a problem, but still a bit annoying. I have several each 7 round stainless steel mags from Wilson Combat, Colt, and Ruger for my 1911 pistols. The magazine bodies of these three brands seem to be totally identical renditions of John Browning's design with tapered control feed lips. I speculate all three brands are really Check Mate and the Colt and Ruger ones even have the little "s" to so designate, although the Wilson Combat do not. The Ruger branded ones have the nice broad dimpled follower and a shield on the follower that extend back down into the front of the magazine to keep the follower firmly retained. Those Ruger examples also have nice robust springs. The Wilson Combat specimens had somewhat weaker springs and no shield on the dimpled follower. The Colt units also had the shieldless followers and very wimpy springs. I put Wolff extra power springs in the Colt and WC branded ones, no problem. But those shieldless followers do bug me some because that design with the extra power springs tends to have the follower's front tip getting caught on the top front edge of the magazine when empty, thus feeding that first round into the mag is a little tedious. Is this a common bug, or just a side effect of using the Wolff spring with that shieldless follower? I wonder if Check Mate lists their good shielded follower; my next action will be to check.
Update: I just checked and CheckMate does offer their followers and have 3 variants: a stainless steel "bull nose" type, a stainless steel dimpled type, and a blued steel dimpled type. The Ruger brand mags I have by CheckMate have blued dimpled steel followers. The pics shown on the CheckMate site are just too poor quality to see how each style is really made. So I am not sure what to order.
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Update: I just checked and CheckMate does offer their followers and have 3 variants: a stainless steel "bull nose" type, a stainless steel dimpled type, and a blued steel dimpled type. The Ruger brand mags I have by CheckMate have blued dimpled steel followers. The pics shown on the CheckMate site are just too poor quality to see how each style is really made. So I am not sure what to order.
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