D.Hayden Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I've tried a number of magazines for Limited-10 for my Kimber, now I need 8 rounders. I've used McCormicks, Wilsons, Kimbers (hate 'em) Recommendations? (Preferably ones that have a basepad already on them.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhgtyre Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 My Wilson mags have been flawless. I use them for CCW a lot so they stay loaded for months at a time and have had zero problems. -ld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSeevers Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Wilson I don't like him but use and recommend his mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eerw Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I have had good luck with the McCormick Shooting Star mags...also like the MagPak mags too.. might try Novak's magazine or Virgil's mag... http://www.novaksights.com/NEW%20products....vak%20Magazines! http://www.trippresearch.com/products/45acp/45acp.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precision40 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I've used McCormick 8rd "Power Mags" for thousands of rounds without a single problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehli Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Don't forget Tripp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Larry Cazes Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I have had the best reliability with the Wilsons with the rounded plastic followers. I found that over time the steel followers in the shooting stars compressed and took a set somewhat causing nosedive jams into the ramp and needed periodic adjusting. Best price I found for the wilsons was Brownells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhino Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I have a few Wilsons that work fine. I have mostly CMC Power Mags and the Mitchell copies of the Power Mags (both made by metalform) that work just as well. The Mitchell mags are the best bargain available on 8 and 10rd .45 1911 magazines from CDNNinvestments.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFD Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 CMC Power Mags are excellent. I agree that the Mitchell copies from CDNN are just as good, but cheaper. After my experiences with the Wilson .38 Super mags, I'm done with that brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokarev Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Brought back to life to add my recommendation for the generic "Power Mags" from CDNN. I bought ten of these and they work just like the real thing. At $8.99, they're a great deal. CDNN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Front Man Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I have both Wilson and CMC and niether have let me down but I prefer the CMC and the flat steel follower for some reason. I'll take a Wilson off a prize table or something; but when it comes to my money I'll buy the CMC. JMHO YMMV FM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve J Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 (edited) CMC Power Mags. In addition to everything said above, they have the best, strongest, longest lasting spring in the business. All steel is good. I stay away from brands that use plastic followers. Plastic followers = problems. Edited March 21, 2006 by Steve J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckS Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 snip--- Plastic followers = problems. Steve, Could you please elaborate? Thanks, Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagdrag Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Tripp Cobra Mags. Great Follower design and feeds my gun very well. I have the ten rounders and I think the 8 rounders are probably even better. Basepad on the ten rounders stink because they don't do a good job of preventing over-insertion. The 8 rounders shouldn't have that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokarev Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Tripp Cobra Mags. Great Follower design and feeds my gun very well. I have the ten rounders and I think the 8 rounders are probably even better. Basepad on the ten rounders stink because they don't do a good job of preventing over-insertion. The 8 rounders shouldn't have that problem. Isn't Virgil supposed to have a brass and/or aluminum baseplate in the works? I have a buddy who bougth some of the 10-rounders that could be over-inserted. I think he told me Virgil was correcting the problem. Also, I spoke with the president of PSI (I've forgotten his name) about the Novak/ACT-MAG 8-rounders. I had some of these awhile ago and they all cracked. He told me that they have changed their heat treating and the cracking issue was resolved. If that's the case, the ACT-MAG's should be a good product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E53X5 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I tried (and liked) Novak magazines, but due to the cracking problem had to get rid of them. I've been using Wilson Combat magazines almost exclusively for a few years and never had any problems (as long as springs are kept fresh). Now that Wilson will no longer replace springs and/or followers under warranty, I will most likely start switching to Tripp's CobraMags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagdrag Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Tripp Cobra Mags. Great Follower design and feeds my gun very well. I have the ten rounders and I think the 8 rounders are probably even better. Basepad on the ten rounders stink because they don't do a good job of preventing over-insertion. The 8 rounders shouldn't have that problem. Isn't Virgil supposed to have a brass and/or aluminum baseplate in the works? I have a buddy who bougth some of the 10-rounders that could be over-inserted. I think he told me Virgil was correcting the problem. Also, I spoke with the president of PSI (I've forgotten his name) about the Novak/ACT-MAG 8-rounders. I had some of these awhile ago and they all cracked. He told me that they have changed their heat treating and the cracking issue was resolved. If that's the case, the ACT-MAG's should be a good product. I know he knows about the basepad problem and he told me they were working on a solution but I haven't heard about a brass or aluminum baseplate. I ended up having a weld-on magwell installed feeling the extra material covering the front strap should prevent over-insertion. I'm still waiting to get it back from Springfield Custom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokarev Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I tried (and liked) Novak magazines, but due to the cracking problem had to get rid of them. I've been using Wilson Combat magazines almost exclusively for a few years and never had any problems (as long as springs are kept fresh). Now that Wilson will no longer replace springs and/or followers under warranty, I will most likely start switching to Tripp's CobraMags. I've got six of the latest generation Novak mags on the way. Hopefully these will not crack. I also have three of the new Metalform Elite mags on the way from Brownell's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve J Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) snip--- Plastic followers = problems. Steve, Could you please elaborate? Thanks, Chuck Plastic follower vs. a steel slide stop. Plastic looses. The plastic will wear out sooner and fail to lock the slide open. My personal experience with 10-rounders with plastic followers was that they would slip right out of the mouth of the magazine. I know they're popular. Wilson uses them. Baer uses them. I don't. I'm prejudiced against plastic. Don't trust the stuff. Edited March 23, 2006 by Steve J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreblePlink Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 10 round .45 cal: I started with metalforms which fed flawlessly, but I zero'd several stages due to overinsertion locking the gun up solid when reloading from slide-lock. This is due to the stop on the mag being just a small punched out tab. So I brazed, using hard silver solder, larger "bumps" on. This worked for a while, then the bumps sheared off. So I spent a bunch of time fabricating small half-moon pieces out of brass bar stock, and silver soldered these on. Of the five that I did, three still work great, two sheared off. But the metalforms feed very well. Next 10 rd experiment was Wilsons, which have a much more substantial insertion stop. But with the factory "self-lubricating" plastic follower, I have sometimes had a malf on the last round. Best results (and what I currently use) are with Wilson mags with metalform followers. These have worked very well - the only time I get a malf now is after 300+ rounds without cleaning the breechface - but thats not the mags fault. 8 round .45 cal: Stock Wilsons have worked very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 (edited) I know this started out as a question regarding magazines for the new SingleStack division, but has progressed to a general skinny-mag testimony. I'm a bit different. I use only the CMC 10-round Power Mags for L10, and only Wilson-Rogers 8-round mags for everything else (including daily carry). My experience has been that the CMC 10-round mags use a stiffer steel than the Wilsons, resulting in fewer episodes of the mag not falling free when the mag release is pushed. They do sometimes get out of shape and require an adjustment, but I've never had to make that adjustment more than 1/8" from the very top of the mag. With the Wilsons I've had to adjust them as much as 2" down the mag body (on more than a few, I should add). For 8-round friendly stages/arrays and daily carry, I've had great success with the Wilson mags. Maybe it's because they're shorter that they're not as prone to deformation as their 10-round Wilson counterparts. Plastic follower - yes. Work as intended - yes. Edited March 24, 2006 by ima45dv8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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