UH-oh! Magazine/ammo incompatability problem with 220 .45 mags.

[demented]

 I just received six factory SIG 220-1 seven round mags I ordered last week, was glad to finally have extra magazines for my new to me SIG .45 until I tried loading them.  My choice of ammunition is Remington's 230gr Golden Sabre of which I have a large supply, never had any issues with it in any other .45 magazines until now.  The SIG magazines have indentions at the top of the tube that are there to allow the magazine catch to slide over the edge of the magazine a bit easier, with the Golden Sabres, these "dents" cause the bullet nose to hang, preventing them feeding.  My only option is to send these back and go with newer eight round magazines which hopefully will allow my ammo to work, can't afford to buy more ammo of a different type at this time.  Anyone else ever had this problem with any firearm magazine?  Its my second time, my FNP 9mm magazines won't allow 124 gr fmj's to load, the internal dimensions of the magazine are too small. 

[jhm]

     Have you contacted the Mag. manufacturer to see if they offer a different follower for them?   I brought home a 220 last week and iut does seem to function vary well my son has shown interest in it as he likes the .45 round so I will probably give it to him.   Jim

[demented]

 Its not the follower thats the problem.  The indentions the mfg used to allow the magazine lip to easily slide past the magazine catch have shrunken the inside dimensions of the magazine body so that my 230 gr Hp's are now too long to fit past those flats.  I'm going to contact SIG tomorrow to see what they can/will do. 

[cwlongshot]

Did you get anywhere with this??

I have the newer 8 round mags and have fired the 185g +P GS rounds with no problems. Loading that last round isn't so easy. So mostly I just load seven.

These and the Fed FMJ expanding rounds are my favorites in a 45 for defense.

CW

[SteveHawaii]

You might want to check out the Sig Forum.  There is a lot of expertise there.