1911A1 magazine rebuild.

[GoodOlBoy]

Yep you read it right I rebuilt a magazine. I had a metalform 7 rounder for my milspec that the gun loves, BUT the spring in it was a pile of rust and sometimes the last round would be SLLOOOWWWW to feed. It WOULD feed but the gun would basically KERCHUNK loadly and slam it into the chamber. SOOO not wanting to throw away a great magazine I ordered the Wilson Combat Spring and Follower replacement kit #19. Cost me $8. The old metalforms bottom plate doesn't remove so what you do is remove ONE round of seven. Slide a SMALL phillips screwdriver through the bottom hole to hold the spring then pull out the other 6 rounds. The follower will fall out in your hand. Point the mag AWAY from your eyeball and pull out the screwdriver. Now take the NEW spring (You will be able to tell the difference since the new spring is about 14 feet long. . . . . ) and bloody your thumb getting it compressed into the magazine. Now realize you should put the follower on it BEFORE compressing it and bloody your thumb and nearly lose an eye attempting to slowly release the tension (which won't work by the way) Now put the follower on the spring and place it in the magazine. Hit yourself in the lip with the follower when your thumb slips. THWAP there ya go. Now curse loudly and try again. Get the thing ALMOST in the magazine and realize the spring is turned around the wrong direction. Curse loudly again. Let off the tenstion. Turn the spring around. Get the spring halway compressed. THWAP lip again, and it saved you a step because you turned the spring around but forgot to turn around the follower. Turn around the follower. Get the spring compressed. Push until your eyes buldge and ever so gently force with all the strength at your command the new follower into the magazine at a downward, no wait angled, nope wrong angle try again, wait how does this work again? Do I have it in backwards??? PLOP it falls into place. Ok now try to load it and realize that whoever built the spring actually designed it as a shock absorber for a military duece and a half. Struggle seven rounds into it. Place the mag in your gun. feed seven rounds through by hand keeping the gun pointed away from anything you don't want a hole in. If you want a hole in it go ahead and point it at it. Doing two things at once is sometimes fun. Now reload the seven rounds and try to figure out the physics of why the thing now loads easy as pie when you are pretty sure you burst two blood vessels, had a mild corinary, and ruptured your spleen loading them last time.

Walla. Brand new rebuilt magazine that feeds flawlessly.

GoodOlBoy