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The terrible customer service I mentioned was directly from the owner. He made a holster that didn't fit standard height adjustable Glock sights and said it was my fault for not ordering "suppressor-height". He was condescending and rude and I will never buy from that place again. GX holsters are vastly superior in quality and service.

Yeah, it took me an hour with dremel and files before my ordinary-height adjustable Dawson sights would clear the sight-channel. Had to file all the way through one of the Kydex layers. The owner of RHT rudely told me that it was my fault for not specifying "suppressor-height" sights. I don't know how that clown show is still in business.

I did clean the hole up slightly with a drill bit in a pin vise, just in case the bushing was slightly misaligned. But I was also having trouble on the production slide I borrowed a pin from, and that one clears a 2mm punch without issue. In any case, I grabbed the closest pin size I could from Ace this morning, 5/64" by 1/2", and the first pin went in perfectly on the first try. It's sufficiently tight, and while the pin is a little too long, the protruding ends aren't long enough to snag on anything.

Well, the 5/64" starter punch fit over the 2mm pin just fine and made it much easier to get the process started, but then I still mangled 2 more pins. I have no idea what I'm doing differently. Between sights and bushings on multiple S2 and SP01 slides, I must have done this without issue close to a dozen times, and now I can't get a pin to go in cleanly for the life of me.

I have both types of parallel punches (Starretts in inch, Wiha in mm), but I've used them interchangeably. 5/64" is very, very close to 2mm, and 5/64" pins are supposed to work fine in place of the 2mm front sight pin. I'll see what the tolerances on the starter punches are when they arrive.

No, I never even thought of that. Just ordered a set with a 5/64" starter punch to see if that makes this process easier. Thanks!

I just got a new CO slide for my Shadow 2, and went to install the 10x barrel bushing. I've done this before multiple times, but for some reason I can't get the front sight pin to go back in cleanly this time. I mangled my 2 spare pins before stealing the pin from my production slide, and even that one just barely went in far enough. Now I have more spares, but I again mangled 2 pins trying to put them back into my production slide. Each time, the pin seems to go in unevenly then it kind of unravels and mushrooms. I've tried using a 5/64" roll pin punch (domed head) as well as a normal flat pin punch. Is there some trick to this? I can't figure out what I'm doing differently this time. I thought maybe the CO bushing alignment was slightly off, but I know the production barrel bushing is properly aligned.

You can't have an optic on your gun in Limited, working or not.

I've come across a lot of scam firearm/ammo sites recently, including one that was (innocently) posted on this forum. This is just a general heads up that if you haven't heard of a store and they have great stock and/or great prices, it's likely a scam. Some telltale signs are broken English in the descriptions and blog posts/reviews stolen from other sites. If you try to check out on one of these sites, you'll find they only accept Zelle, PayPal (friends and family only!), or cryptocurrency. There are tons of these sites and new ones are created every day. Some sites I've seen recently (not linking to avoid helping their Google ranking): crockrugerarms dot com deltaarmsbroker dot com firearms-world dot com (lists a valid FFL number and corresponding address, but I doubt the actual licensee is involved) czgunstore dot com Be careful out there!

No problem, I've just seen a lot of scam gun sites this week so I'm more on guard than usual. A couple hours ago, I found some Alliant Sport Pistol in stock at firearms-world dot com. Poked around a little...another scam. (This one lists a valid FFL number and uses the licensee's address, but I highly doubt he's involved.)

More on this scam: https://czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=116275.0

That looks very suspicious to me. I've already encountered a couple of fake online gun shops today — deltaarmsbroker dot com and crockrugerarms dot com — and this has some of the same hallmarks. The domain was registered earlier this year, there's minimal contact info, the hours are wonky, and there's no address. If you add something to your cart and try to check out, you'll find they only accept Zelle and bitcoin. And somehow this brand new store has all the rare models in stock. ETA: There are a few reports here of people who were scammed:

I run a Tandemkross comp on my 10/22, but only because the gun is so quiet with CCI standard velocity. I got tired of reshooting a good string because the timer missed my last shot. The gun is definitely louder, but I don’t perceive any difference with muzzle rise, which is already almost negligible.

CGW notes that the RRK shortens the double action stroke and they recommend not going lighter than a 13lb hammer spring. I have an RRK installed and recently went to an 11.5lb spring with no issues, but I also have an extended firing pin and a RAMI firing pin spring.

Are you running a stock firing pin and FP spring?