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One of the many touted problems with the 1911 has been ammo capacity. Standard magazine sizes give you 7+1 or 8+1 rounds. Other magazines can accept 10 or more rounds but they stick out the bottom and can be cumbersome.
Comparatively guns like the Glock or HK, or SIG can accept up to 15 rounds in standard magazines, in part thanks to a smaller caliber the 9mm, and other extended magazines can go higher than 15 rounds.
I realize that ammo capacity is also limited or increased due to caliber size so I just went with the most common caliber for each gun mentioned.
Anyhoo, now for my idea.
Instead of a single stack, go with a double stack like the glock. The magazine well in the 1911 is not wide enough for double stack. A method for widening it would be to redesign the magazine and pistol frame so that the grips become part of the magazine instead of the pistol frame. Hollowing out the grips and making them part of the magazine would increase the width almost double.
It would be awkward to hold a 1911 without the grips when the magazine is removed, so a method of loading the magazine from the bottom while still in the gun could alleviate the problem.
Or perhaps some form of grip could be developed that would stay on the pistol so as not to make reloading and holding the gun awkward.
One big problem is that the magazine well would have to be pushed to the rear of the pistol slightly to align it with the grips. This would mean redesigning or repositioning pretty much all the internal mechanisms of the gun.
I'd really like to see if this idea would work. Sadly I don't have the means to try it.
Edit: Woops! I think I put this in the wrong forum. Can someone move it to the handgun forum?
Comparatively guns like the Glock or HK, or SIG can accept up to 15 rounds in standard magazines, in part thanks to a smaller caliber the 9mm, and other extended magazines can go higher than 15 rounds.
I realize that ammo capacity is also limited or increased due to caliber size so I just went with the most common caliber for each gun mentioned.
Anyhoo, now for my idea.
Instead of a single stack, go with a double stack like the glock. The magazine well in the 1911 is not wide enough for double stack. A method for widening it would be to redesign the magazine and pistol frame so that the grips become part of the magazine instead of the pistol frame. Hollowing out the grips and making them part of the magazine would increase the width almost double.
It would be awkward to hold a 1911 without the grips when the magazine is removed, so a method of loading the magazine from the bottom while still in the gun could alleviate the problem.
Or perhaps some form of grip could be developed that would stay on the pistol so as not to make reloading and holding the gun awkward.
One big problem is that the magazine well would have to be pushed to the rear of the pistol slightly to align it with the grips. This would mean redesigning or repositioning pretty much all the internal mechanisms of the gun.
I'd really like to see if this idea would work. Sadly I don't have the means to try it.
Edit: Woops! I think I put this in the wrong forum. Can someone move it to the handgun forum?
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