kimber team 2 / wilson comat mag problem. ramped barrell

[tony357 386]

Cleaned the kimber team 2 tonight from friday nights range session, the bottom of the ramped barrel was marred after inspection i found the wilson combat mag rests above the frame when the barrel comes back into battery it contacts the mag leaving it damaged.

 

Took pics of damage and mags in frame to show the problem, i may just modify the mags or buy kimbers and be done with it.

 

Barrell damage.

 

 

Wilson combat mag in frame you can see where it protrudes above.

 

 

kimber mag in frame.

 

Repaired barrell, filed with a jeweled file and polished with roush..

 

[hiker88 22]

Good thing you caught the problem early. 9mm single stack mags are tricky as different brands perform differently with different pistols. Now that you know what needs to be done with the Wilson mags, you can just tune them specifically for your Kimber. The Wilson gives you one extra round over the OEM Kimber mag... good for competition ; )

[tony357 386]

Squeezing that 10th round in is like trying to put two pillows in one pillow case.

 

Their for to me they are both 9 rnd mags..

[Wolfy 51]

Tony you would think Kimber would be aware of the problem and fix it. Wilson mags are one of the most sold brands so Kimber should have designed the pistol to work with them.

[bry@n 195]

I agree with Wolfy. I have to look at my kimber and see if my wilson combats do the same for my ultra carry.

[Wolfy 51]

At the very least put it in the owners manual.

[Maksim 1,504]

Kimber putting it in the manual would be like Glock admitting their guns have potential to KB =P

 

Tony, I would call them up. Did the gun ship with wilsons? The smith's do and never had that issue. did you try other wilson mags and it is all of them or perhaps just the one mag?

[tony357 386]

only the wison combat mags.

 

Kimber mag ok,

 

chip mcormack ok.

 

shooting star mags ok.

 

Amt mags ok.

 

springfield mag ok.

 

taurus mags ok.

 

This is a wilson mag problem.. I emailed wilson combat about this problem.

[tony357 386]

I went ahead and fit these mags to my gun.

 

after checking all of my other 1911 mags and none of them have the same issue as the wilson combat mag.

the correct way to fix this problem was to modify the mag not the gun.

 

even though it was a ramped barrell their is still ramping in the fram the wilson mag petruded way above the ramp.

 

I removed material from the front of the magazine body to correct the problem with kimber team 2 1911 and use of this magazine.

 

test dummies.

 

wilson mag in frame.

 

wilson mag after modification.

 

material removed in black.

 

modified mags.

[bry@n 195]

Looks awesome. What did you use to removed the material?

[tony357 386]

Grinding stone on dremmel, then polished with finer stone and rounded edges.