Okay, first of all, your brother's Taurus jams almost every other "Magazine", not "Clip". Now that we have our terminology corrected, we will delve further into the 1911 and it's unearned reputation for being finicky.

Two things, first of all, probably 90% of all function/feeding related problems with the 1911 can be traced back to the magazine, and not the pistol itself. Originally the pistol was designed to shoot only full metal jacket ammunition, therefor the magazine was to design to feed, you guessed it, full metal jacket bullets. Now, once the hollow point became the norm and the 1911 became a popular self defense/law enforcement handgun, something had to be done to make it feed hollow points. Now enter the tapered lip, gradual release magazine. These magazines released the round sooner so that it could start to climb the feed ramp as well as slide under the extractor sooner.

Okay, I just realized that for me to fully explain all of this it is going to take about an hour to type it out, so, if any of you are truly interested in it, and want to know how to buy a 1911, any 1911, and make it run, feel free to send me a PM with your email address and i'll get it all typed up for you and send it to whoever wants to read it.

Just a quick note to think about concerning 1911s and their function. We get into trouble when we stary from the original design. Order some Original mil-spec Colt 7-round tapered magazines with the dimpled follower and try them in your malfunctioning pistol. I think you will be happy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />! Checkmate also makes a tapered lip, dimpled follower magazine that will work well, and Virgil Tripps CobraMags are another design to try. Throw your Wilson 47Ds in the trash!!!

Thanks Tolly, and sorry about my terminology.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/footinmouth.gif" alt="" />

I have my original magazine and a kimber magazine for mine.. Does that mean i could load up the kimber magazine with hollow points and it not jam? I would really rather have it loaded with hollows for home defense..

I'm about to PM you my email address.. I am really interested in your info..

i wouldn't have a problem running fmj's exclusively.