Anyone know of a halfway decent 20+ capacity mag for hipowers?

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akanotken

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I really enjoy shooting 3gun matches, and I've got a local match that allows unlimited mag capacities.

I'd like to run my High power. I've got 17 round KRD mags (5 yr old from CDNN) that have just started to tire (I think the feed lips need a tweak). Mostly these have run 100%. I found one mag that was hanging the last round and pulled it out from the mix, and had a single misfeed in a 200+ round pistol match last week.

This has got me searching for a uber hi capacity mag for my HP. Given this is only a competition mag, it doesn't have to be 100%, but if it's failing more than 5% of the time it's way too much.
I don't care as much about cost as I do capacity + reliability.
To date, this is what I'm aware of:
Mecgar 20 rounders: Never used these but they do make the factory mags for HP's (at least they used to). I'd guess these might be the most reliable, a little more costly, but a little lower capacity than I was hoping for. (I'm competing against Glocks with 30 rounders.)

I've got a 5 year old steel mag that worked well once or twice. Came from CDNN, was cheap, they couldn't even tell me who made them. Bought on a whim. This is more along the lines of what I was hoping to find. If anyone can point me to a generic 30 round aftermarket spring from wolf, IMSI, etc I'd be happy to try to get this mag back up and running with a quality spring. This mag failed when I left the mag loaded for a couple of weeks, I'm guessing that was too much to ask for the spring to handle.

Promags makes a 30 rounder. Anyone have any experience?

I've also seen a couple of mags on sites with no manufacture listed. I'm very leery of these.

Any other options I've missed.

Anyone have good experience with an uber hicap for the highpower? Replacement springs? (I'll get these even if getting new mags). Please, include a good source if you have one.
 
MecGar manu's a 20 rd. that works well. They are/were allegedly the manufacturer of the "factory" BHP/FN mags.
 
I've put about 2k rounds though a High Power using two Mec-Gar 20 rd mags. They work great and never had a failure with mine. I did have minor issues with the mag disconnect whem using them though. The blueing makes the mag somewhat "stickier" than the factory mags and made the trigger worse than it already was. Of course, this is really only an issue if you still have the mag disconnect installed.

Also had a Pro-Mag 30 rd one. That one didn't work worth a flip.
 
I think there is a write up over on the 1911 forums. They have a high power section, IIRC they have instructions tacked up top. Your trigger finger will LOVE you.
 
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