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I have a lightly customized Colt Delta Elite that is giving me magazine-related fits.
When I bought it (bone-stock) it was used, and the magazine it came with was used *up*. No problem, I got a couple of CMC Shooting Star 9 rounders. I have since put several hundred rounds through it and discovered something.
With 8 rounds in the magazine, it is functionally perfect. No foul-ups of any kind with any ammo. Me and my friends probably put 200 rounds of Blazers, various hollowpoints and cast handloads through it without a hitch.
With 9 rounds in, however, it has an alarming tendency to miss-feed the top round in the magazine. The spring seems so strong that with 9 rounds in it actually binds the top round against the feed lips to the point that it causes malfunctions. All the subsequent rounds feed fine, leading me to belive that the magazines are the culprit.
This annoys the heck out of me. So I bought a pair of Metalform 9-round magazines. These are even worse: not only does the top round cause fits when it is loaded to 9 rounds, the magazines also lock back the slide on the next-to-last round EVERY SINGLE TIME!
Oh, and anyone that tells you that Wilson-Rogers .45 ACP magazines work in a 10mm is dead wrong... I had some (for an actual .45) that I tried out based on the advice of a closet bonehead. They caused so many malfunctions that I won't even bother to list them.
So what magazines SHOULD I be using? I don't care so much if they are 8 or 9 rounders, as long as they actually work when loaded to whatever their designed capacity is. I ordered some new Colt 8-round DE magazines to see how they work. There are also Colt 9-round DE magazines; will they actually WORK when loaded to 9 rounds (unlike all the others I've tried...)?
Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
When I bought it (bone-stock) it was used, and the magazine it came with was used *up*. No problem, I got a couple of CMC Shooting Star 9 rounders. I have since put several hundred rounds through it and discovered something.
With 8 rounds in the magazine, it is functionally perfect. No foul-ups of any kind with any ammo. Me and my friends probably put 200 rounds of Blazers, various hollowpoints and cast handloads through it without a hitch.
With 9 rounds in, however, it has an alarming tendency to miss-feed the top round in the magazine. The spring seems so strong that with 9 rounds in it actually binds the top round against the feed lips to the point that it causes malfunctions. All the subsequent rounds feed fine, leading me to belive that the magazines are the culprit.
This annoys the heck out of me. So I bought a pair of Metalform 9-round magazines. These are even worse: not only does the top round cause fits when it is loaded to 9 rounds, the magazines also lock back the slide on the next-to-last round EVERY SINGLE TIME!
Oh, and anyone that tells you that Wilson-Rogers .45 ACP magazines work in a 10mm is dead wrong... I had some (for an actual .45) that I tried out based on the advice of a closet bonehead. They caused so many malfunctions that I won't even bother to list them.
So what magazines SHOULD I be using? I don't care so much if they are 8 or 9 rounders, as long as they actually work when loaded to whatever their designed capacity is. I ordered some new Colt 8-round DE magazines to see how they work. There are also Colt 9-round DE magazines; will they actually WORK when loaded to 9 rounds (unlike all the others I've tried...)?
Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
