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1911 magazine feed lips.
The only bullet I shoot in my .45 ACP Colt Combat Commander are my RCBS 201 Cast, powder coated as per these:
I have a total of fourteen magazines (all Seven round or converted to Seven rounds), with several different feed lip styles. I pretty much know what G.I. Hardball lips look like, but despite a picture indicating the difference between Hybrid and Wadcutter lips, I cannot readily see the difference...it would appear that the difference is too subtitle for me to see. Here is a link to a picture that show G.I., Hybrid, and Wadcutter feed lips. Can someone enlighten me as to the difference between the G.I. and Wadcutter? http://how-i-did-it.org/magazines2/read-my-lips.html Also note that I have three different types of followers. A G.I, Rounded (convex), and rounded (concave). The Rounded, concave follower has a tit (it is NOT a "dimple"), but seems not to be in the place where Browning put his, so I am not sure if it performs that same way as the Browning G.I., or if it does anything at all. Last edited by dahermit; December 28, 2020 at 01:05 PM. |
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In your photo above, you have no magazines that have "GI" feed lips. The GI feed lips are straight for their full length, and the width between them gradually gets wider (tapers) from back to front.
In your photo, the two on the left appear to be "wadcutter" feed lips. The gap is uniform for about half the length of the feed lips, then abruptly opens up and the sides of the mag transition to vertical. The magazine on the right is a "hybrid." Like the wadcutter magazines, the hybrids have feed lips that only run about half the length of the magazine, then abruptly open up and transition to vertical sides. But where the gap at the rear is uniform on the wadcutter magazines, the gap is tapered on the hybrids. In the linked article, the descriptions are accurate and -- to my eye -- the photos are self-explanatory. You really can't see the difference between the GI magazine on the left and the wadcutter magazine on the right?
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Magazines two and three in the photo above are as-wadcutter and as-hybrid as you are going to find.
The kink, or dogleg in the feedlips pictured, is missing from fully tapered. G.I. feedlips.
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Your loaded round is incorrect. You need more shoulder and less crimp. A modern 1911 will feed properly assembled semi-wadcutters from any magazine.
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"Can someone enlighten me as to the difference between the G.I. and Wadcutter?"
The following pic is from the link you provided. I ID'd the mags in red, and you can see the difference in the feed lips. |
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Aside from that, I posted absolutely nothing about any problem with the functioning of my rounds. I only included the picture of my powder coated .45 ACP rounds because I like see pictures in the posts and assumed that others would like to see pictures also. Last edited by dahermit; December 28, 2020 at 05:19 PM. |
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Thanks but, it is not the G.I. and that wadcutter lips that I have not been able to tell apart...I don't see hardly any difference distinguishable between the Wadcutter and the Hybrid lips.
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"I don't see hardly any difference distinguishable between the Wadcutter and the Hybrid lips."
Hybrid is in the middle, and WC on the right (from the pic in post #6). Looks to me like the right feed lip on the WC mag is parallel to the mag center line, and has more roll over than the right lip on Hybrid mag. Both lips on the Hybrid mag appear to fan out a little. |
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Being as how the feed lips do not contact either the FMJ or wadcutter bullet, what difference can it make??
I have a collection of GI mags, some no name crap, some Colt, some GI contract and even one of the two tone mags made in the 20s. All except the crap ones (which I keep separate and don't use but somehow never get rid of) all of them feed FMJ, SWC and JHP without issue in my Govt Model. Our world if over full of people who have changed, tweaked or otherwise "improved" the original Browning design, and in my experience it is a change but seldom an improvement. Semi Wadcutter magazines?? Really?? I think someone is over thinking things, or just hyping something to make a buck from the unwary...
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The wad cutters were developed with hollow points in mind. They help. The hybrids are supposed to work well with both FMJ and hollow points. IIRC, member 1911Tuner had some input in the design with Checkmate
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I have no idea how that image grew so large. I fixed in in my post. Dahermit, do you want me to try to fix it in yours?
Never mind -- I changed it. Again, my apologies.
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Flying ashtray was a 200gr hollowpoint, the wadcutter of "wadcutter feedlip" is the 185gr jacketed match bullet.
The H&G cast SWC was designed to give good accuracy and a clean hole, while still being compatible with G.I. mags.
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I shot some of those "Flying Ashtrays" back when I bought my Mark IV Government Model in the seventies. I actually did a test with them by shooting into milk jugs filled with water, lined up on my shooting bench. I shot from just a few feet in front of the stack. As I remember, the bullet only went through two or three gallon jugs and formed a perfect classic mushroom. The first two jugs burst from the hydraulic pressure. I was drenched with water from the bursting jugs. That ended my experiment.
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"The first two jugs burst from the hydraulic pressure. I was drenched with water from the bursting jugs. That ended my experiment."
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The M1911A1 I mentioned earlier requires the special feed lips to prevent failures to feed with semi wadcutter bullets. It will choke up almost every time with hardball feed lips. I'm sure someone will say the pistol is set up wrong, but it's 100% reliable with the right magazines, so I'm not changing a thing. Besides, magazines are cheaper than sending it off to a Pistolsmith. |
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I've had a lot of 1911A1 pattern guns over the years, some actual GI guns, some Colt, some made by other people. I've let all of them go, save one, that will never go, it belonged to my Dad. Its a Colt Govt Model, that sometime in the late 60s was set up for target work. Micro adjustable sights and a truly sweet trigger. That gun, using stock GI pattern mags feeds everything I've put in it. Ball, short nose swc, long nose swc, and JHPs, even the old Speer 200gr "Flying ashtray".
In my hands, from a rested position, it puts 5 shots in one ragged hole of about 2-2.5" size. A better shooter could probably better that. Whoever set that gun up, did it right!
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I collaborated with Check Mate on the development of their bullnose follower and provided them with the dimensions for a gauge to check and set the final release on their full tapered GI reproduction magazines.
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