1911 magazine bases

[Montague Kid]

I dont mean to kick any beehives here, but has there been any discussion about allowing 1911 mags with removable plastic bases for modern categories? Main reason I'm asking is I just did the Ed Brown trade in deal and received 10 really nice mags, but they have plastic bases which was not pictured on the website when I ordered them. 

 

MK

[El Chapo]

I wish.  I absolutely hate the mags I have to use for Wild Bunch, but I doubt we'll see that change.  I don't even miss my FO front sight or even my magwell as much as I miss my basepads.

 

[Flying W Ramrod]

Just the leather base pads.

Don't think the TG/ROC will budge on this.

[El Chapo]

40 minutes ago, Flying W Ramrod said:

Just the leather base pads.

Don't think the TG/ROC will budge on this.

 

I don't either, but I really wish they would.  I'd even be glad to put a leather basepad on top of the plastic for the look.  It's just annoying not to have something to seat a mag in a game with reloads on the clock.

[Seth Bradford]

20 hours ago, Montague Kid said:

I dont mean to kick any beehives here, but has there been any discussion about allowing 1911 mags with removable plastic bases for modern categories? Main reason I'm asking is I just did the Ed Brown trade in deal and received 10 really nice mags, but they have plastic bases which was not pictured on the website when I ordered them. 

 

MK

Last thing we need is you to be faster! 🤣

[Flying W Ramrod]

15 hours ago, El Chapo said:

 

I don't either, but I really wish they would.  I'd even be glad to put a leather basepad on top of the plastic for the look.  It's just annoying not to have something to seat a mag in a game with reloads on the clock.

I dunno. The 1/4" leather pad seems to work for everyone else.

[El Chapo]

3 hours ago, Flying W Ramrod said:

I dunno. The 1/4" leather pad seems to work for everyone else.

Who is everyone else?  Nobody but the most dedicated purists and Wild Bunch shooters are using welded baseplate magazines.

[Flying W Ramrod]

Just about every shooter in Wild Bunch uses a 1/4 inch, leather, baseplate cover on their mags.

WBAS SHB PG 12 "A base pad may be added to the magazine if it meets the following requirements: it must be made from natural leather material only. It must be no larger than the contour of the base of the magazine. The total thickness of the pad may not extend more than ¼” beyond the original base plate."

 Mernickle sells them by the 10 unit lot 1911 Wild Bunch Mag Pads – Mernickle Custom Holsters

You don't have to use the metal baseplates bare, but you can't use plastic.

Darkmoor Armory motto "death before plastic"

[El Chapo]

20 hours ago, Flying W Ramrod said:

Just about every shooter in Wild Bunch uses a 1/4 inch, leather, baseplate cover on their mags.

WBAS SHB PG 12 "A base pad may be added to the magazine if it meets the following requirements: it must be made from natural leather material only. It must be no larger than the contour of the base of the magazine. The total thickness of the pad may not extend more than ¼” beyond the original base plate."

 Mernickle sells them by the 10 unit lot 1911 Wild Bunch Mag Pads – Mernickle Custom Holsters

You don't have to use the metal baseplates bare, but you can't use plastic.

Darkmoor Armory motto "death before plastic"

 

Right, they do that in wild bunch because we have no other options.  Virtually everyone shooting 1911s anywhere else is using a mag with an actual basepad.

The Mernicle leather pads are unfortunately not 1/4" thick.  I made some of my own, and they aren't either.  I wish I had a source for leather that thick, even the full 1/4" feels like it'd be an advantage.

[Flying W Ramrod]

2 hours ago, El Chapo said:

 

Right, they do that in wild bunch because we have no other options.  Virtually everyone shooting 1911s anywhere else is using a mag with an actual basepad.

The Mernicle leather pads are unfortunately not 1/4" thick.  I made some of my own, and they aren't either.  I wish I had a source for leather that thick, even the full 1/4" feels like it'd be an advantage.

Because "elsewhere" is not based on the movie The Wild Bunch. More like Rambo meets Lethal Weapon meets HALO.

Different genres.

and, as for thickness, stack them, as long as they don't exceed 1/4 inch.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Flying W Ramrod

[El Chapo]

5 hours ago, Flying W Ramrod said:

Because "elsewhere" is not based on the movie The Wild Bunch. More like Rambo meets Lethal Weapon meets HALO.

Different genres.

and, as for thickness, stack them, as long as they don't exceed 1/4 inch.

 

I expect that you will also be using paper shotgun shells, because there were no plastic ones in 1913.

I assume also that your rifle isn't a .38 Special, .357 Magnum, or .45 Colt because there was no such thing as a lever action rifle in any of those cartridges then, either.

Common sense should have prevailed a long time ago on the magazines, just like it did for these things.