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  1. My DW Valor hasn’t choked on any bullet type or weight I’ve shot with it.
  2. Thumbs up on Techwell stuff.
  3. I do prefer the 2011’s thicker grip but still enjoy shooting the 1911’s, especially an older Springfield TRP and the DW PM-9. Nowadays my club match stages aren’t single stack or revolver friendly, so I shoot mostly limited.
  4. Good to hear! And yes, thanks to all who commented. I’ve learned a lot reading what others are doing with their Prodigys. It’s been an enjoyable project and now mine is set up to my liking.
  5. Shot the Prodigy with a 7# recoil spring at a club match last Thursday. No half cock. The gun feels good and doesn’t hold me back in any way. Any deficiencies are all me.
  6. You can order government length and snip.
  7. Hmm, yes, my PM-9s work great with 7# springs, which I sometimes use when shooting a slightly lighter load. It’s the slide slamming home when my finger might already have released the trigger that I wonder about. I’m not positive my finger can beat the slide cycle time, but maybe.
  8. Agree! And plenty of younger generation gunsmiths getting bench time with these guns, keeping the knowledge base healthy.
  9. I’ve watched some of his videos. Seems to be into these guns so he probably has enough experience to do things right.
  10. It seems the Prodigys vary enough from gun to gun that there’s no one upgrade recipe for all of them. No surprise because 1911 parts almost always require at least a little fitting. One thing that might be consistent - the slide and frame seem to have less space between them - specifically, the gap between the disco track and the flat frame surface where the disco pokes out - than on a lot of other 1911/2011-style guns. I think this is why so many report the slide hanging up on the disco. Is it like this with yours?
  11. Last Saturday, I had one and only one half cock during a sixth range session in a row. I was shooting with some other people and at about 150 rounds (all good up to that point), I said, “Now I’m gonna try to induce half cock.” So I did doubles as fast as I could and sure enough, I got one to happen. This is with an Extreme Engineering disconnector in the Prodigy. Also, I had reduced over-cock to a small amount. These two changes didn’t hurt anything. I think there is a timing thing going on, and the recoil spring is the main driver of slide cycle timing, so that’s why I’m thinking about it. But I won’t be surprised if this isn’t solvable with a different spring weight. Feeding, extraction and ejection remain 100% reliable.
  12. Good stuff Charlie. One thing I’m wondering is how much the recoil spring is a factor in my situation. I’m using a 9#. Before weighing some slides recently, I was pretty sure the Prodigy slide was heavier than the PM-9 slide. I weighed three slides and got these readings: PM-9: 13.5oz Prodigy: 12.7oz Nemesis: 11.1oz I use an 8# spring for the PM-9 and never have issues (after I worked out a magazine-related problem). I haven’t yet tried an 8# spring in the Prodigy, but probably will next range session.
  13. Yep that’s one of the threads I read recently. I learned a lot over the years by reading posts from the 1911forum members pistolwrench and log man.
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