9 mm 1911 reliabilty

robvious · May 6, 2022

I have only owned one and can only speak to the fact that the pistol is fine, but the magazines are problematic at best.. if the quest for magazines that work is not an issue go for it... my Taurus PT1911 9mm likes factory mags & Wilson so far... have fun

Borderboss · May 6, 2022

My only experience with a 1911 in 9mm was awful. The problem is the short cartridge, requiring the shimmed magazines. I gave up.

The 1911 works great with .45 ACP and .38 Super, both longer cartridges. Personally, I wouldn't mess with it.

BB57 · May 6, 2022

Borderboss said:
My only experience with a 1911 in 9mm was awful. The problem is the short cartridge, requiring the shimmed magazines. I gave up.

The 1911 works great with .45 ACP and .38 Super, both longer cartridges. Personally, I wouldn't mess with it.

As noted above, I have four of them in full size, commander and officer frame sizes and I have not found a shimmed magazine to be necessary. I shoot both pretty much interchangeably.

If anything the shimmed magazine increases slide over run on the commander and officer framed pistols, but as long as the recoil spring is still the stock weight and also not worn out, they function fine.

Borderboss · May 6, 2022

BB57 said:
As noted above, I have four of them in full size, commander and officer frame sizes and I have not found a shimmed magazine to be necessary. I shoot both pretty much interchangeably.

If anything the shimmed magazine increases slide over run on the commander and officer framed pistols, but as long as the recoil spring is still the stock weight and also not worn out, they function fine.

Your photo is interesting. I would expect your shimmed magazine (on the right) to have failures to feed, like mine had, because there is so little feed lip compared to the length of the case.

On the other hand, the magazine on the left looks much better, with longer magazine lips to prevent the round from stovepiping when getting stripped from the magazine.

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