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45 ACP Magazines

74cuda74cuda Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in Ask the Experts
Anyone know who these might have been made by? Both are dark blue, flat metal followers. One is marked "C-R" on the bottom of the floor plate and on the top of the plate it has an "R" on the part that extends from the magazine. The second magazine doesn't have anything marked on the bottom of the floor plate, but it has an "L" on the part that extends from the magazine.

Left and Right magazines??? Not really but it works. Thanks....



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  • fergusonmorse392fergusonmorse392 Member Posts: 432 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    THIS IS A MAGAZINE THAT IS GETTING HARDER & HARDER TO FIND, IT IS THE CORRECT MAGAZINE FOR THE COLT 1911A1 WW2, THE R IS RIDSON MFG. CO.>>> THE C-R MADE BY RIDSON FOR COLT. THEY WERE ONE OF MANY SUB-CONTRACTORS IN WW2 MAGAZINES WITH JUST THE R ON THE UPPER SIDE OF THE BASE WERE SUPPLIED TO ITICHA, UNION S & S, OTHERS, ETC.>>>>>>>>>>>>DON'T KNOW ON THE L.
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  • 74cuda74cuda Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been told that the correct mags for the older colts were two tone, or were those made directly by Colt? That would then expain why these are not, since they were made by a subcontractor for Colt.

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  • fergusonmorse392fergusonmorse392 Member Posts: 432 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you would find the two tone magazines in the early models 1911's WW1 & into the late 1920's early 1930's.
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,887 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The C-R mag was made by RISDON.

    The L mag was made by M.S. Little; those made for Colt during WWII have an additional stamp of C-L.

    Neal
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  • 74cuda74cuda Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    thanks for the info. Wasn't sure about them and I figured I would get an answer on this site....



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