Posted: 6/2/2007 3:33:54 PM EDT
Well I built up an Essex gun, and thought I was having functioning problems. All I had available was those cheapy 7 rounders I picked up years ago at a gunshow for 7 bucks. I finaly bought 5 of the Chip Mcormick shooting star mags. I was having a jam about every 2nd mag or so. Now none, wow. Very pleased with these quality mags!
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| You are correct about magazines being critical for function. That's the first variable to eliminate for feeding problems. That said, you really must have had some crap magazines to have called "shooting stars" the solution for reliability because shooting stars are iffy enough that many consider them crap as well. No bubble bursting intended. The mags are bought and if they work well, then you got a better bargain than most. |
| I learned a valuable lesson today with old Mil-Spec Mags. They simply do not work. I picked up a cheapie 1911, as a blaster, nothing more, nothing less. Needless to say, old Milsurp magazines just don't feed, and on the second round out with a Mil-Spec mag, it stove-piped. I inserted a Wilson magazine, fired the entire magazine and it functioned fine. Just goes to show that it's almost never the weapon itself. |