Maybe this should be over in General Handguns or Semi Autos, but I wanted Mr. 1911 Tunerman to read this and quickly comment if he thinks I'm flirtin' with disaster or anything...
Due to having a hard time finding magazines for my just-acquired Delta Elite, I got the bright idea to try shooting 10mm's out of my plentiful supply of 8rd. .45 magazines. (BTW they hold 9 rounds of 10mm.) First tried this at home with some hand cycling of the slide at both "full" and not-so-full speeds. Chose a pair of Wilson and one Novak mag for the testing.
Hey, rounds seem to stay put until the right moment. If anything, the top round is held just a smidge higher than in my 10mm mags. Long story short, the hand-cycling works 100%. Now, off to the range for Part Deux.
Ran about four mags-full through each of the three test subjects. Shot using good two hand hold, then switched to some strong/weak hand only firing. No problems encountered.
As time goes by I'm gonna continue this experiment with several more .45acp mags, and will report back with any failures. Btw, anybody else ever tried this? What happened?
1911 Tuner, what do you and the other gundocs here think? Can I stop searching for dedicated 10mm magazines, or am I missing something?
Due to having a hard time finding magazines for my just-acquired Delta Elite, I got the bright idea to try shooting 10mm's out of my plentiful supply of 8rd. .45 magazines. (BTW they hold 9 rounds of 10mm.) First tried this at home with some hand cycling of the slide at both "full" and not-so-full speeds. Chose a pair of Wilson and one Novak mag for the testing.
Hey, rounds seem to stay put until the right moment. If anything, the top round is held just a smidge higher than in my 10mm mags. Long story short, the hand-cycling works 100%. Now, off to the range for Part Deux.
Ran about four mags-full through each of the three test subjects. Shot using good two hand hold, then switched to some strong/weak hand only firing. No problems encountered.
As time goes by I'm gonna continue this experiment with several more .45acp mags, and will report back with any failures. Btw, anybody else ever tried this? What happened?
1911 Tuner, what do you and the other gundocs here think? Can I stop searching for dedicated 10mm magazines, or am I missing something?