Who makes the best 1911 magazines?

[targa88]

Wilson

47D flawless.

 

[Tang]

Best Magazines

Wilson Combat47D, work in Wilson CQB, Smith & Wesson 1911, Les Baer TRS and Nighthawk GRP. Flawless function.

 

[DBR]

I voted "other". The best combo I have found so far after testing many is the Chip McCormick Power Mag tube with the Tripp kit.

Second best is the McCormick tube with the Metalform flat follower and the Wolff 13 coil (+10%) spring.

 

[pat86323]

this is sort of a not bad question, but i think that the mag depends on the gun. I have several mags that i really like using. The novaks have given me very minimal problems, as well as metalforms and chips. However i have a buddy whos gun will not work with anything but these stupid cheap mags that he got for like 6 dollars a peice at a gunshow. (we dont know what brand they even are) and they wont even stay in my gun. So i think its a matter of what works well in your particular gun.

 

[larry starling]

Wilson gets my vote....

 

[edison]

Don't know if they're the best, but the Chip McCormick Shooting Stars turned my Charles Daly EFS into a reliable piece of shooting iron. Prior to the conversion from the factory Mec-Gars (usually a darn good mag) I would get a failure to feed with nearly every mag. I had totally lost confidence in that pistol. Have not had a single FTFeed since the conversion. There may be better mags out there, but I have one that works and I'm sticking with it. It shoots FMJ and HPs with no problems now. A few hundred rounds ago I tried using the old factory mags and had the same FTFeed problem. Bottom line, the CMCs solved my problem.

Got Novak mags with my S&W SC, nary a single FTF in some 400+ rounds.

edison

 

[.45 Cal]

Silly question...

My SA GI model says 7 rounds. Will the 8 round Wilson mag over-hang the mag well?

 

[dhoomonyou]

I voted WILSON.

NO PROBS in my Kimber.

 

[Werewolf]

I've used both McCormick and Wilson mags in some pretty dusty and dirty conditions for IPSC matches and just plain target shooting and plinking. All have 1000's of rounds thru them and none have ever failed (and I'm not easy on mags as I rarely clean 'em). I've used the CM Power Mags and shooting stars. I've used the Wilson's that came with my S&W Target 1911. For the price the CM's are the better deal and just as good as the wilson's IMO. The only complaint I have is that the one and only non-stainless CM mag I bought will not drop free from my S&W 1911 but it has fed flawlessly for many, many a round (I just won't use it in an IPSC match).

 

[CZF]

anyone know the origin of Ed Brown 1911 mags? Are they made by ED Brown or
by someone else and stamped EB Products?

 

[pete f]

My son has liberated my S&W for the summer and he took four metalforms and four Novaks, For the most part he is out at the farm or on the golf course all summer, when at the farm he shoots about 200 rounds a day every day, so far he claims no malfs at all, none. I am upset that he his breaking in my 1911 without me but jealous of his summer, oh to be young again.

 

[Zach S]

Wilson 47s. I have for for every 1911.

My SA GI model says 7 rounds. Will the 8 round Wilson mag over-hang the mag well?

No. Eight rounders fit flush in the full-length grip. They weill stick out of a shorter grip though.