The original follower found in the seven shot GI magazines is better than the McCormick follower in the Power Mag.
That’s what that says. Following your dicta that modifications are not always improvements, the McCormick PM design incorrectly modified the standard steel follower. It was not an improvement in a number of ways.
In the case of the all plastic magazine follower getting a metal insert to beef up the durability of the slide stop engagement, there are no downsides to so doing. A durability change was the only real change. Just one real reason....not hundreds.
There were downsides to what McCormick did in shortening the rear skirt of the standard metal follower. Those shortcomings have been mentioned. Follower stability was adversely affected.
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Yes, to my understanding.
My buddy liked Ryan Wilson just fine, but said Bill was very difficult to get along with. A talented business man no doubt, and my buddy said the guns and parts were nice, but just not a good place to work.
Now that Bill is semi-retired and Ryan runs the day to day maybe the work environment is better.
If I hadn't been working all day, this this would've been a LOT more entertaining, than 8 hours of SuperBowl pre-hype show!
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Thought I remember reading or hearing the same reasons for Guncrafter Industries came into being. But, maybe I am off base with my understanding or maybe I am just seeing things that aren't there due to all three being in the same corner of AR.
Regardless, I plan to own one of each someday.....hopefully.
I believe that Alex Zimmerman or one of GI's spokespeople have said elsewhere that Bill Wilson was one of their first customers.
Alex Zimmerman has also done work for a variety of the larger manufacturers, helping them to develop various bits and bobs for their 1911s. Including, IIRC, S&W's E-series 1911 external extractor (which I recall Hilton Yam being very excited about when the pistols debuted, but I don't know that it ever went anywhere, since that was about the time that Yam stopped posting as regularly on the interwebz).
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