What replacement follower will work in Ruger P series 45's?

Bought a nice 97 that won't feed the last round with the factory eight round followers. Is there something I can change to that will work?

Here you go:

http://www.brownells.com/magazines/handgun-magazines/magazine-parts/magazine-hardware/1911-magazine-conversion-kits-prod24743.aspx

Thank you sir. I had looked at those but wasn't sure they fit in the tube or even work at all. I've not owned any P's in over ten years, am getting back into them with a vengeance, have bought a P-85, two 95's and the 97 in the last two months. Was afraid they'd get hard to get if I waited too long.

Well welcome back! Sounds like you caught the P bug...often overlooked but IMO they are great guns!! Seems many of us can't stop at one P series.

What Al said. :roll:

I replaced all of mine with Tripp Research skirted followers. Reduces to 7rds but mags the mag work great. Same style as the factory only skirted and identical to the one in the SR1911 checkmate 8rd mag.

Is this the follower with the metal tab and looks sorta like a wilson 7 round follower? Also did you have to change springs? Seven round capacity is not a problem for me. Sorry for all the questions.....AND thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply!

demented said:

Is this the follower with the metal tab and looks sorta like a wilson 7 round follower? Also did you have to change springs? Seven round capacity is not a problem for me. Sorry for all the questions.....AND thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply!

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https://www.trippresearch.com/store/store_1911.html


Here is the link . . . the factory spring will work with most followers, however since the design of the factory devel follower and this one is the same, there is no issue.

If you search my post you will see several on this follower. At one point I was selling new magazines with the upgrade and followers themselves. Market just seemed to dry up.

Did you use the Flex or Hybrid follower?

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Did you use the Flex or Hybrid follower?

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Flex, not hybrid. It's the bottom left in the link I sent.

Actually link didn't go directly to it but I used the flex version.

Thank you for taking the time to help me with this.

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Thank you for taking the time to help me with this.

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Glad to do it. Ruger had a good idea with the p90 mag but the followers on both types are a bust to me because like most things Ruger does their own thing then stops supplying parts. E.g. The 7rd follower. I never tried the hybrid in the P90 but just bought three mags from a guy and one is the 8rd cobra with that follower. I will let you know how they look.

Yeah Ruger is bad about leaving us holding the bag. I've used Tripp Cobra's in 1911's with good results.