1911 magazine issues

by Charles, Saturday, December 17, 2011, 13:05 (4724 days ago)
edited by Charles, Saturday, December 17, 2011, 13:10

Today I ran into to 1911 mag issues and that is something new for me. A few years back I bought some Metalform mags with the rounded follower.

The follower on two of the mags are wanting to stick about one round down in the shell. I can take a punch and move them up and down with pressure on the follower. But when I depress the follower with my thumb it doesn't want to come back up.

I figured the issue was powder residue and tried to clean it out the best I could, but to no avail. I used both Ed's Red and Hoppe's spray stuff. I tried a little oil, but while that helped a little it didn't cure the problem.

I am about down to the spring rolling snake eyes as the culprit. Or maybe somebody has put a Voodoo hex on the follower.

There seems to be no way to take these things apart. The bottom is welded on and the follower is so tall, it doesn't want to come free from the shell when the spring is held captive.

I will probably just crush them and call it a day, but I can't figure this one out. I bought 4 mags at the same time and two of them have gone bad, the other two are fine.

I am certain there is somebody on this board that has the answer, so cure my ignorance if you would please.

PS: With either of these two bum mags in the pistol, The slide won't lock back with an empty magazine. That smells like spring issues to me.