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I have 3 of the Kimber mags with removable standard base pads that I use in WB. kR

They are removable and after you remove them, the spring will spew right out of the bottom of the magazine. They are also not standard GI length or there'd be no way to attach the basepad. Those are the magazines I use for other sports and they are NOT SASS legal.

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Thanks Pard, Think these are the ones I've seen.

Possibly the mags you are referring to is the Kimber Kim Pro magazines. They come with standard flat base pads that are legal in WB. I've been using them for years. Easy peasy to take apart and clean There are optional thin and thick base pads that can be attached with provided screws. Marshal Stone

Thank you FR, that's a pretty good deal. I'll check into them. Sux to loose a mag from being stepped on. I've gotten a pretty full box of them now. CC

Just got the info Ed Brown Mags can be in any condition but has to have spring and follower. $10.00/mag plus shipping. Pard sent 28 bad mags, got 28 new and, with shipping to Arizona, about $300.00

Checking on info. There was a company, good mags, that would exchange beat up mags, as long as follower and spring were still there, and give back a new mag. It wasn't a 1 for 1 but still.... I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks all. And Dave that Tripp P/N has a welded on base pad. The Tripps welded base pads are pre drilled with two holes for installation of after market base pads. Like Dawsons, Ed Brown, Wilson. The Tripp poly/alloy base pads will not fit onto a Tripp welded mag. They are secured with a spring plate, which you can see in the second picture I posted above. I was really hoping that there may have been some "unicorn" Tripp mags. With removable base plates that were standard length. That would make the Tripp's the best. My biggest problem with the welded pad's, are I have several that have been stepped on and the body gets slightly deformed. No proper way to fix then. Now if I could get that pad off, easy repair. Thanks for checking. CC

You're right. I only knew what I read on their website. Thanks for pointing this out. I've seen mags, in wb. that had two screw holes in the baseplate. I'm not sure if these were for base pads, but it appeared so. Again, thanks for pointing this out.

I was wrong The ones I have with the removable base plates are Wilson Combat Low Profile magazines and I checked even though they are Low Profile they are too long so they wouldn't be WB legal. When I bought them many many moons ago the base plates were thin metal that fit inside the magazine and held in by the rolled sides of the magazine body. These mags do not have slots cut into the sides of the magazine so that style base plate will not work. I can't get to my Tripp mags at the moment so I can't verify the base plates but looking through my paperwork they are P/N 7R-45-WG which have welded base plates.

And if you knew anything about these mag's, you would know there is no welded on base pad under that poly/alloy pad. And if you happen to take the poly/alloy base pad off, the mag's are non operational. So again my question to you then, are you saying these are legal for WB? If not WTF is your point in even throwing these mag's out in the WB forum. Here's two pics of these mags. I asked Dave, who stated he had removable FLAT base pads. Your posted Mag is neither of these item's.

If you bothered to read the description, it states the poly/alloy pads are REMOVABLE. basepad (BP-P-.500 // BP-A-.500) Polymer or Alloy // Removable // .500" height

FR, that's not WB legal. So no point in that, or are you saying that it's WB legal? Dave said he bought flat base removable base pads. Your link is not for a flat base mag. And so Dave could you list the model number off the mag or show a picture of it? I've been buying Tripp mag's for over 20 year's (back in the Gen 1 day's) and have never seen a removable, flat base pad sold. I'm just curious. Thanks buddy. CC

I bought mine years ago and they have just a thin metal flat plate vice the raised alloy plate.

Tripp Research Inc links to Cobra Mag for Tripp Magazines. The 8R-45-RG and the 8R-45-RG-TAC have removable, poly, base pads and offer, removable, alloy base pads. 8 Round .45 Government 1911 Magazine

I did not know Tripp ever made a standard length, flush fit magazine, with a removable basepad. Can you show a picture of it? Or provide the model number off the side of the magazine. Thanks. CC

I was wrong. My Appologies

The requirement is "magazines must be standard length" and other references to a "baseplate." Magazines that use slide on basepads are longer than normal magazines. Magazines that use screw on basepads are welded baseplate magazines and would be WBAS without the pads. The magazines I'm talking about, which are commonplace in ALL other types of shooting that use 1911s, do not have any kind of baseplate. If there was any rational reading of portion of the rules that let me use my Tripps with Dawson basepads, this whole thread wouldn't need to exist.

There is NO REQUIREMENT that magazines have welded base plates. Don't know where you got that from but AFAIK it has never been a requirement.

Where did you get the idea that the mags had to have a welded baseplate? kR

If they let me have a magazine with a slide off basepad, I'll make it out of bamboo if they want.

Aluminum I can see. It was widely use in WWI for combat related items. Plastic, not until WWII.

They don't have to be plastic. My dawsons are aluminum. If you didn't know what you were looking for, you wouldn't even notice them if they had a sheet of leather over them. There were no beavertails, Bomars, skeletonized hammers, dovetail sights, and a whole list of other things in 1913. It's just this one issue WBAS seems to have a hangup with.