The magazine comes with a flat GI baseplate, but Kimber thoughtfully includes two bumper pads in the packaging in case one is more comfortable using bumper-ed magazines. Insertion and ejection are smooth and slick…as long as the owner doesn’t fumble the reload of course. With the rounds loaded there’s no flimsy shake rattle and roll. The metal magazine body is tight and solid. The witness holes are marked and staggered, with easy to read text and Kimber stampings on the side.Īs you hold it, the magazine has a sense of solid heft which belies the shiny impression one gets at first look. The mirror shine attracts fingerprints, however the finish doesn’t impede reloads or inhibit a tight grip like its flashy appearance may suggest. The Kimber magazine has a pleasing reflective finish on it. Comparing my Kimber Kim-Pro Tac mag to the parkerized no-name 8-rounder that awaited me in the Remington R1 box, we can see some important differences right away. It’s the same brand of ammunition I initially shot though that Rock Island 1911.Īt this point it’s wise to consider what separates a choice 1911 magazine from the substandard. The factory no-name mag it came with caused a feed malfunction with hollow point PMC ammo, ammo that same exact pistol fired without incident from a Kimpro mag. To ensure my letter isn’t a sample of one, my Remington R1 that’s in the video I made works 100% with Kimber mags. It’s no wonder Yeager and a lot of others would think the 1911 is a jam-o-matic. If his clients are taking their 1911s to his high-intensity training course with the factory no-name mags that came with their pistols, its not a stretch to assume they wouldn’t have any better luck than I would with the magazines RIA included. While he states that his observation of the students he taught who used 1911s noted several malfunctions, did he take the time to note which magazines the students were shooting with? Yeager makes well thought-out points, a thought occurred to me while watching his videos. I realized it may not be common knowledge among the Armed Intelligentsia to mistrust 1911 mags that come in the box with an $800+ firearm. This experience was repeated in December last year.Īfter James Yeager recently made a video slamming 1911s, all this came back to the fore for me. I’ve since sold that RIA, but nevertheless I’ve NEVER had a malfunction with my 1911s unless I used the no-name magazine that was in the box with it. They fed and fired without incident.Įver since that range session I’ve made it a rule to buy aftermarket quality magazines with every 1911 purchase. I unloaded the mag, stuck the same hollow point rounds into the Kimber mag in the same order as they were in the Act Mag. Same thing with the Kimpro mag.Ī hypothesis germinated in my mind as I loaded the Act Mag, slammed it home and hit the slide release. After shooting that mag and loading the Mec-Gar 8 rounder, the gun happily fed and fired every hollowpoint PMC round without incident. With the included 8-round Act-Mag the 1911 refused to feed hollowpoints. The only ones the sales staff had were a Mec-Gar and a Kimpro Tac mag, so those were what I bought.Īt the next range session something funny happened. Being that it only came with one magazine in the box, I picked up two spare mags for it in the store. Next payday came around and I purchased an RIA 1911 Tactical. 45 ACP Tactical may be an inexpensive pistol to most people, but not for a college student fresh out of the military. I resolved to buy a 1911 after my rental session, but not before I did some extensive research beforehand.
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