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Do search for gun clubs and shooting ranges in your State to find out if anyone is holding a Zombie shoot. They usually occur in the September to October months. Having some good tactical clothing that will securely hold your gear. The Eotac Style 201 pants are my favorite because they hold 6- 30rd PMAGS and they are easy to run in. Tactical vests like the Style 101 are not heavy and don’t make you feel like you are wearing a flak jacket. There is a time and a place for different types of tactical vests, but mobility is important. You may want to try getting your magazines loaded up with all of your gear and then try running 100yds with it and see what it feels like and if stuff starts to fly out of your pockets. Mobility is extremely important.
There seems to be a new craze in competition shooting in recent years. I’ve seen more high school boys coming home from class with Zombie survival guides, the recent 28 Days later type movies and the doomsday virus outbreaks. I guess IDPA has lost some traction to the present generation, but I’ve attended a few Zombie survival competitions and they were very good training events. The best thing about it was the amount of tactical gear that I watched fail, and the number of really novice mistakes people made. Out of the 5 stages I attended, there was 1 stage that we saw about 18 firearms go down. About half of those were AK variants and they were mostly magazine related. Some guys never knew how hard it was to do a tactical reload on an AK if there was a round in the chamber and a fully loaded 30rd magazine. People found out what happens after firing off the 1st round and the magazine falls out.
Gun magazines are designed for the caliber or manufacturer that they are meant to. Some rifle or pistol magazines can work in different firearms, for instance, the Beretta Storm 9mm can take Beretta 92 magazines and you may be able to find capacities for your guns that pistol magazines aren’t usually for. Putting anything more than a 10rd or 15rd magazine in a 9mm Pistol can be awkward, but put a 20rd mag that works in your Beretta 92 into a Beretta CX4 storm is an advancemnet.
The Mini 14 was hands down the gun that was hit the hardest by the AWB in the 1990’s. Ruger is now making 20rd and 30rd magazines available to the public and those magazines were going for close to $100 at one point in the later 1990s’. There is nothing wrong with having magazines for firearms that are not the best, sometimes it’s better to rotate through cheap magazines and practice malfunction drills or just toss them when they were out. You don’t want to use your carry mags all the time because if you are shooting through hundreds of rounds of ammo using the same mags that you use for your daily carry, you may find out at the wrong time that the springs need to be replaced. I picked up a good supply of Mil-Spec 1911 7rd magazines that I rotate through my guns and save the Wilsons Combat Magazines for the serious shooting. When the mil-spec mags start jamming too much, I just toss them.
Although I understand that polymer guns are here to stay and they are far more technologically advanced than their early metal counterparts, I still enjoy shooting my 1911 handguns. The 1911s that are being made today are really several generations beyond where the guns that crossed the European continent and fought on the beaches of the Pacific. The best improvements I have seen in the 1911 design compared to the GI guns are #1 the pistol sights, and #2 the gun magazines. The GI 1911 magazines weakness seemed to be the followers. The slide stops were so heavy that many of the times the tabs on the magazine would bend and the slide would close on an empty chamber.
Finding magazines that work in your 1911 shouldn’t be a project. If you have been using the best magazines on the market, you are down to probable only 2 or 3 manufacturers. The 1911 pistol design is a very durable design, but part of the problem we see in the gun is it can take a toll on the magazine slide stop tab and some manufacturers have remedied that. Wilson Combat and McCormick are two that we see. Chip McCormick has known the competative shooting sport and knew since his companies inception that the guns were great, but the magazines on the market were all based on the chinsy, slimsy throw away design the military used.
Modern firearms are pretty much superior to everything that was designed a generation ago. Some people get stuck in the past and might think that a P51 Mustang is equal to an F117 Stealth fighter and then everyone just smiles at grandpa and listens to his stories. Manufacturing has become superior to what it was 20yrs ago in many ways, but the rifles and handguns of WWII just don’t hold up to what is getting kicked out in Modern Military terms.
The 1911 Pistol is one of the most popular competition pistols in the shooting industry and on the firing range. Not only is it about nostalgia, but the 1911 is one of the most tweakable and customizable handguns you can own. Shooting a 45acp is not always the easiers, but you will have more fun reloading 45acp than any other caliber if you are a target shooter.
We’ve all heard about how the 1911 isn’t as reliable as a Glock, but firearm reliability has increased for just about every semi-auto that is in production these days. Guns that were made 50-80yrs ago are manufactured better, magazines have become more reliable and ammunition is far more reliable now than it was even 30yrs ago. When using a semi-auto, we have to think about the purpose for it and what we think we need in a certain situation. I love the people that think they are going to fight off 50 bad guys with there Glock, but the reality is that if you think you are going into that bad of a situation, bring a rifle.
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Die-controlled tolerances held to +/- .001 inches (over 75% tighter tolerances than Mil-Spec). Eleven (11) extra-powerful coils of aerospace grade Rocket Wire spring. More spring coils, more spring power, than any other 1911 8rd magazine.