What is a good magazine spring/rebuild kit

**Fushigi Ojisan** · 08-07-2009 11:11 PM

After going through my collection of 1911 magazines, I realize I set aside over half of them because of FTF issues. So I thought I may as well get new springs and/or rebuild kits.

Went to Brownells site and decided to get a Shooting Star magazine conversion kit, a Wilson Magazine conversion kit, and a couple of Wolff magazine springs to see which I liked.

Should I look at swapping out followers as well or keep them? I point out none are original Colt or WWII USGI: One is a British icon

Ballester-Molina magazine, two are Argentine icon

Colt, two are Vietnam-Era USGI, and the rest are a mixed bag.

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**Rick Gushman** · 08-08-2009 01:50 AM

Before investing any time and money in the VN era USGI magazines, inspect the back of the magazines for cracks at the rear of the feeding lips. Rick

**mike113** · 08-08-2009 02:44 AM

my experience is that wolfe springs are probably as good as they get. Wilson followers seem to get smoother over time. I've had a couple of wilson mags for years and I've never had a problem with them.