CerTac 8 Round Magazine

CerTac 8 Magazines

A message from Christopher Provost

The magazine is the heart and soul of a competition or carry pistol. The pistol is useless if the magazine fails. Additionally most magazines were produced as an add-on or an ancillary item to the pistol. No one really thought about what is truly required in a high stress environment.

After years of working with what the industry considered the “standard” by which all 1911 magazines should be judged, I realized they really aren’t that great. The delrin followers were prone to wear; the springs would become weak with use. I had sold hundreds of those magazines for a famous Arkansas pistol manufacturer but there weren’t all they were touted to be.

Finally in frustration I sat down with all the magazines of the industry trying to find a better product. When none would meet my needs we decided to make our own. What you will find is our magazine is logical, functional and yet beautiful.

Notice the magazine has numbers down the middle. The brass or nickel cases shine toward the number giving you quick access to the count. Others have the numbers on the side forcing your eye to jog back and forth. The follower is metal, not some plastic part that will break with hard use or some antiquated design from the 1900s. The base plate is wide and triangular to provide better removal from your mag pouch and to disperse the pressure over as wider area as you insert it into your pistol. Finally, the tube; it didn’t catch your eye didn’t it. Place our magazine next to one of yours. Did you notice our tube is longer, but our OAL may be shorter? We can put a longer, heavier spring into our tube allowing more positive feed of your ammunition into your pistol. An added benefit of this stronger spring is when the gun goes to slide lock, the slide is fully locked! With other magazines the slide lock would become a questionable occurrence if your springs were old or the magazine had been kept loaded for a period of time.

I’m so confident in my magazines I sent them down for evaluation with some of the finest military and Law Enforcement agencies in the country. I gave them to competitive shooters competing in IDPA and the only responses I’ve gotten back were good ones. Order some mags for yourself and you be the judge. I think you’ll find this magazine to be logical and well made.