colt marked magazines

coronel

July 27, 2011 16:43

Are the colt marked magazines with the pony and an s on the bottom plate oem?

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fastcarsgofast

July 27, 2011 16:46
For which gun?
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coronel

July 27, 2011 16:51
For a 1911 45
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nmyers

July 27, 2011 17:17
Then the answer is "no".

Neal

EDIT: IIRC, in the 1980's one contractor shipped a huge batch of Government Model "genuine Colt parts" mags to Colt, but Colt rejected them because they were not made to spec. The manufacturer wasn't about to throw them away, so they were sold to a distributor, & showed up at gun shows all over the country. No way to tell them from "good" mags. Don't know the manufacturer.

EDIT: Txs, the ones you described are USGI WW2 contract mags; mags with the pony & a letter are series-70 & later commercial mags.
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David Nunn

July 27, 2011 18:57
I had a blue one so marked and it was not a Colt. It was a piece of crap. It developed cracks on the spine where the feed lips attach. I tossed it.
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Txs

July 28, 2011 08:46
Scovill Mfg. was a USGI 1911 magazine subcontractor.

I don't know if that's what you have, but their's were marked with the Colt emblem on the bottom of the baseplate and the letter S on the top baseplate's forward lip.
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Grasshopper

July 28, 2011 17:47
There are fakes around ,,I so believe there is a person here on G.B. that sells all kinds of "real" junk mags,
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