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I recently bought a 10mm Dan Wesson 1911 and I was planning on shooting a bunch of .40 through it for practice. Any potential downside to this aside from the occasional malfunction?

As a guy who shoots single stack, I have tried them all. McCormicks are awesome. I just recently switched to Ed Brown magazines. Super happy with those. The Wilson’s are reliable but due to the follower design an in battery mag change can be a little rugged.

I have a Walther Q5 steel frame with Lok grips that mimic the 2011 grip angle. That is pretty close. I’ve also heard good things about the P320 grip, so I plan on getting one of those next.

I have had this happen as well. Just remember, the gun didn’t change. Start all over, put it all back together again, and you will probably fix the problem.

Like he said, need more info to diagnose this. Pretty hard to ride the slide stop with your thumb on that gun if the slide stop is stock, so I am guessing it isn't your grip. If your gun is just filthy dirty, that could do it. I also put a tiny drop of lube under the slide stop lever, just as a routine maintenance thing. Magazines are the most common cause, so that is where I would look first.

It was the slide stop lever. I swapped it out and it completely fixed the problem. The original part was leaving a mark on the bullets. Dragging on them somehow.

Will they take the Dawson basepads? If so, that should make them work.

Does anyone have recent experience with the D&L Sports 1911 magazines? The website has a pretty persuasive sales pitch for them, but it looks like they are using the ACT magazine bodies which I hear were prone to cracking in the past.

I run a 17lbs mainspring with a Dawson extended firing pin in my .45 and it is 100% reliable. The firing pin stop with a flat bottom helps to reduce felt recoil too in my opinion. EGW makes them.

As a guy who shoots .45 in SS major I will say do yourself a favor and buy the .40. Not only will you be glad you did for the extra mag capacity in limited, but you will appreciate it at the reloading bench as well. It is cheaper to reload .40 and easier because now .45 is showing up with small pistol primer pockets, which is a total pain. I am only sticking with.45 because I have a ton of large pistol primers.

I’m sure that it would be legal, but I doubt that it would be cost-effective. That’s sort of an undertaking would require a gunsmith of some skill quite some time, if you could even get anyone to take the job. My advice would be to sell that pistol and buy one with the rail.

Legit build dude. What caliber did you get?

That hadn’t occurred to me Chuck, but I think you might be on to something there. After I extract the magazines that are hanging up it does seem like that top round has nudged forward a bit.

That’s a good suggestion. I tried swapping out mag releases, to no avail.

I just got a new Wilson combat classic model in .45 that I intend to use for single stack. I’m having an issue with partially expended magazines not dropping free. Empty mags fall out no problem as do fully loaded mags, but after you fire three or four rounds, the magazines will frequently hang up in the gun. They drop out about a quarter of an inch and that is it. The ammo I am using is 230 grain blue bullets loaded to 1.21 inches. The ammo runs in all of my other 1911s and so do the mags. The magazines are Wilson’s and McCormicks and it’s happening with both. I already kicked it back to the factory once to no avail. Any ideas?