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Archie:
Well, allowing a 10rnd magazine in a single-stack 1911 would solve the 'problem' in a single stroke. The IPSC box was introduced to make a clear-cut difference between the Open Division, with their optics and compensators, and the Standard Division, which is supposed to be 'out of the box' factory guns. Nearly all the stages at most IPSC matches are 10 round friendly, to suit the Open Division..that was fair enough when most, if not all, the Standard shooters were using single-stack 1911's...now that Para-Ordnance guns with their 10 round double-stack magazines are dominating the Standard Division, it's also become an equipment race..the very thing the IPSC box was supposed to prevent. To maintain it is fractured logic. Now with the introduction of the Production Division, which bans SA autos, IPSC has virtually sounded the death-knell for the original 1911 pistol...
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