Related question... what exactly happens when trying to feed wadcutters via GI magazines with fully tapered feed lips? Some sort of malfunction obviously, but of what nature?
Sometimes they'll feed just fine...and sometimes in an unaltered USGI pistol. The Hensley & Gibbs #68 in particular has a good record of feeding from unaltered or slightly modified GI magazines. The "Snub-Nosed" semi-wadcutters not so much.
I have an original/correct GI Colt manufactured in 1919 that can't tell the difference between hardball and hollowpoints and the #68 SWC...and from the old WW1-era magazine that rides in its magwell. A 1945 Remington Rand and my two Union Switch pistols do the same thing.
As an addendum, it might be worth noting that the OEM magazines that came with the now banned Norincos were direct copies of Colt's "hybrid" design, and...once properly sprung...are very good magazines.
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