Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns What are the 1911's weakness?

Those and the mags they come in are notorious for causing one of the problems you have described. The cure is not to fit another follower - it's to switch to either a Colt-spec 7-round mag or to the longer 8-round mag as has already been stated.

But you may also have other issues, so don't throw the baby out if that doesn't make it run perfectly. Using a magazine well-known to not cause problems should direct your attention elsewhere. Thing is, you can put a current Colt 7-rounder in a not-so-perfect gun and it may make it run right - or it may not, but it won't be the fault of the magazine.