
How to make a 1911 feed hollow points. Some do require a little tuning or ammo selection to find a hollow point that will feed reliably. If not a little judicious feed ramp barrel throat polishing usually makes it so. Again any gun can refuse to feed with certain brands of ammo. You go buy a nice 1911 and try and cycle hollow point ammo through it and more often than not a 1911 will have issues.
My colt 1991a1 will feed commercial and hand loaded ball 185gr hollow points 200gr lead swc from the factory 7rd magazine chip mccormick 8rd magazines and wilson combat 8rd magazines the ones i own anyway. Your magazine spring is the issue if it doesnt feed when fully loaded. Todays 1911s should feed most jhp just fine right out of the box. I have never had a failure to feed from any of these magazines.
1911 help ftf full magazine nose dive wilson combat amt colt kimber duration. Fmjs for the first 400 rounds in a new 1911 before running hollow points. These feed ramps and the mating surface to them are all made on different machines by different operators. While many of the production 1911s are guranteed from the factory to shoot hardball fmj many feed and shoot hollow points perfectly.
New hollow points greatly resemble hard ball and they feed very nicely in quality 1911s with quality mags. Video to accompany the article from john travis aka 1911 tuner on leaving the feed ramp along on your 1911. I suggest shooting only 230gr. The idea that the 1911 cant feed hollow points came from a lot of years ago when they were much more open and werent shaped like regular jacketed ball rounds.