Wild Bunch equipment poll: Magazines

[Pecos Clyde]

If you choose "other" in the poll please post the name brand magazine you usel

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

I only shoot WB at the club level and NONE of my local clubs have any issue with the small base pads on the Wilson mags.

Respectfully,

LG

[Philly Slim]

OP's  (Other People's)

 

 

 

All my 1911s are double stack, can't use 'em for Wild Bunch.

[Wild Bodie Tom]

Novak's

But you knew that..........

Thanks Clyde.

[Coconino Pistolero]

I are a Tripp user.  And I watch you sticky fingered pards.

[Roy Mason]

I have the Kimbers with multiple base plates.  I can use the padded baseplates for modern matches.

[Johnny Morris]

Pony on the gun, Pony on the mags.

 

Colt

 

JM

[Oklahomabound]

Chip McCormick and Colt

[Sgt. Eli]

Majority are McCormick's with a couple of Colt and Springfields thrown in the mix.

[VICIOUS]

HOWDY ; I use Kimber pro tac ,stainless with teflon follower and three changable base plates .

[Irish Red OToole]

McCormick and Wislon so far.  Anything with the rounded followewrs seem to work the best for me.

[CypressSam]

I use military surplus magazines.  They've never let me down if I keep them clean.  They're also cheap.

[Coconino Pistolero]

GI magazines are reliable but mine are WWII or VN vintage and are not always reliable on locking the slide.  That is why I went with the Tripps and Tripp internals in CMCs.  Only one failure in 5 matches and the magazine was dirty after 5 stages of being dropped in the sand.  I now bring the magazine brush to the match.

[Marshal Law]

Howdy,

 

I bought 5 Chip McCormick Shooting Star magazines with the plastic base pads. Do these base pads come off with the metal base underneath or do I need replace these magazines for Wild Bunch.

 

Thanks pards,

 

Marshal Law

[Buckeye Pete]

Like, CypressSam, I use military surplus magazines and have had no problems with them.  I find them at gunshows and they are new in the package.  They seem to work well in my Springfield 1911.

 

Buckeye Pete 

[Pecos Clyde]

Howdy,

 

I bought 5 Chip McCormick Shooting Star magazines with the plastic base pads. Do these base pads come off with the metal base underneath or do I need replace these magazines for Wild Bunch.

 

Thanks pards,

 

Marshal Law

 

ML

 

        I know of 2 types of McCormick mags...the shooting star and the power mag.  One of those models does come with a removeable extended base pad.....I just don't recall which one.  Look for a scre in the bottom of the black plastic extnded pad.

 

PC

[Lawman Mark]

I only have four mags without the baseplate pads that I use for Wild Bunch.  They are two Colt mags, a Mec-Gar, and one marked Marlin that I suspect is from a Camp Rifle. 

[Jake Stoner]

I shoot a Colt 1991-a1. One Colt mag and three G.I. surplus mags ( new ones ).  No issues with any of them.

[Oklahomabound]

...retired one magazine which was slow on the eject...  bought two new Kimber magazines, worked really well...

[Guest John E. Law]

I have been using Wilson's and a Kim-Tec, but I recently bought a dozen military surplus and they work fine. No better no worse than the others which were more expensive.

 

JEL

[Garrison Joe]

I bought 5 Chip McCormick Shooting Star magazines with the plastic base pads. Do these base pads come off with the metal base underneath or do I need replace these magazines for Wild Bunch.

 

I've gotten Shooting Star mags before that had the plastic bumpers on them.  Two screws in the bumper were removed, and voila, a naked steel base plate reveals itself!

 

Good luck, GJ

[Dastardly Dave]

I have a number of misc. mags that did not prove reliable enough, so I replaced them with Chip McCormick Shooting Star mags (there on sale at Midway).  I bought the ones that came with a bumper that you have to install, and just didn't install them.  That way if I would like to use them in an Action Pistol match, all I have to do is screw them in.  I've found them very reliable.

[Coconino Pistolero]

Howdy,

 

I bought 5 Chip McCormick Shooting Star magazines with the plastic base pads. Do these base pads come off with the metal base underneath or do I need replace these magazines for Wild Bunch.

 

Thanks pards,

 

Marshal Law

 

ML

 

        I know of 2 types of McCormick mags...the shooting star and the power mag.  One of those models does come with a removeable extended base pad.....I just don't recall which one.   Look for a scre in the bottom of the black plastic extnded pad.

 

PC

 

As GJ stated the Shooting Star has the removable bumper, the powermag bumper is not removable.

[Marshal Law]

Howdy,

 

I looked at the Magazine package ant it said Power mag. No removable bumper.

 

Does Chip McCormick sell just the metal base plates so I can retrofit my power mags?

 

Thanks pards,

 

Marshal Law

[Blackfoot]

Don't think Chip Mc. bases can be interchanged.  The plain metal ones are welded in.  The Chip Mc. Shooting Star magazines have plain metal bases, the latest ones have threaded holes where pads can be screwed on with two screws.

 

Blackfoot