POTD: 1911 Drum Magazine
by
Nicholas C
Published: February 23rd, 2017
I stumbled across this picture of an odd 1911 drum magazine. It looks like is made of multiple 1911 magazines in a rotary style setup.
It sort of reminds me of the X-Rail for shotguns or the Nerf Pyragon where you have small internal magazines arranged in a circle and the assembly rotates as the first magazine is emptied.
Obviously this design did not catch on and now we have conventional snail drums.
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Anybody have an idea of when this would have been produced? Seeing how old the photos are and that it's an M1911 (not an A1), I'd imagine it was a very early development. Maybe circa 1916-1918? It seems like it may have been a similar development to this SMG. William Andrews is my best guess for this design.
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I remember seeing picture of a world War 1 airman armed with a Colt 1911 equipped with an extended single stack magazine and a "cage" around the ejection port. The cage was to keep the hot ejected cases from setting the glue reinforced aircraft fabric on fire....