Schuyler113

Really appreciate the feedback everyone. The likelihood I would experience issues trying to repurpose a gun set up for major in to minor is exactly what I was afraid of. Hadn't thought of the height-over-bore of the frame mount setups..... that is also something new to consider.

I cheaped out on my pistol when I started shooting 3-gun to make sure it was going to a hobby I was going to stick with. Ended up with a Polymer80 that I've been shooting in open - aftermarket Glock 34 slide, compensator, RMR, Timney trigger. I've been shooting reloads at the bottom of minor power factor, but really just to give me a reasonable target to aim for also being new to reloading. I'm not shooting anywhere that checks / cares (2/3gun and random outlaw pistol matches just really for fun and to compete amongst friends). This has kind of quickly led to me sliding in to open just for certain "fun" upgrades - Offset red dot on rifle, 12+1 shotgun, etc. However, I've ended up enjoying it more than expected and am tired of constantly tinkering with a poylmer80. So it's time to get something a little nicer. I've been looking at used open setup czechmate, or a new platypus. However the aluminum frame is kind of a bummer to me on the platypus, and I'm just not thrilled about the idea of being an early adopter. I bet rev2 is going to have a lot more bells/whistles. The more I window shop though, the more I keep coming back to buying a used open 2011 set up. Frame mounted optic, compensator, etc. I am looking at the $2-3k price range. Which brings me the purpose of this thread: If I am looking for a used 2011, I have a couple questions: I am not really looking to take on someone else's tinkering, so I'm planning to stay away from anything where the core pistol was a DIY build. Any major red flags / things I need to stay away from? Anything major that is going to be non-adaptable if I decide to leave open down the road? Only thing that came to mind that wasn't just swapping parts was potentially having to get the slide milled if it's using a frame mount for the optic. I very much enjoyed the squirrel fart minor 147gr reloads. If I were to purchase a gun set up for major, is there anything outside of swapping recoil springs I would really need to do to set it up for minor? (Previous advise on here has told me no). Any general advice you would you have for someone looking to get in to their first 2011, particularly something set up in this configuration? If I wasn't looking to hold out until after the holidays, this WTB thread is an example of something that definitely caught my eye: Thanks everyone!

Oh man - apologies in advance. Guess I didn't have email notifications turned on..... Continued on to 15 and 18lb springs, no dice. Swapped extractor, spring, and plunger, no dice. Then I ran out of ammo testing today, grabbed a different ammo can, and started running some poor man's syntechs I ordered recently. Immediately solved. I had tried just running the slide with some other ammo before, but didn't shoot any real quantity of it. ~100 rounds of Remington UMC 147gr, FTF every 10-20 shots. Swapped to this new ammo, 100 flawless shots (except the slide not locking back because the 15lb spring that's in there now is probably too heavy). Current theory is this was an OAL issue.... Not sure if 0.022 would make or break the situation, but I'm shooting the MicroTech Pro-AM this weekend and will surely come back and tell you all if I was wrong or not lol.

So before you say it, hindsight is 20-20 and at the moment I regret going down the P80 road. But we're here now, so trying to make the best of it. I started doing 2/3-gun matches ~2 years ago, and built this thing thinking it would be better to start with a blank canvas: lightweight milled slide right off the bat, threaded barrel, etc. Truth be told - it shot awesome for the first several thousand rounds. But then the itch came, and I started trying to "make it better". Timney trigger - Started having failures to feed where the slide wouldn't quite go all the way forward (maybe like 3-4mm shy). Ended up being that the trigger spring was slightly too long and would contact the bottom of the chamber. Trimmed it, good to go. After another ~500 flawless rounds, I found a Agency 417 dual-port compensator used and decided I needed that to try and go faster. It's been all down hill from there. First - failures to eject. Simple enough, lighter spring. Tried 11lb ISMI with stainless guide rod. Mostly worked, but I was having issues where it would fail to fully go in to battery (push it forward with your thumb and it's good to go). Then I swapped to 13lb and had failures to feed depicted in the attached pictures below. Essentially the round is stopping halfway in to the barrel, right at the bottom of the extractor. In a lot of cases if you push the extractor aside, the slide would immediately close and go in to battery (but not in all cases). Substantial force on the back of the slide does NOT cause it to go in to battery once it has the initial F2F. I replaced the striker spring with a 4.5lb Wolff in an attempt to improve - same outcome. 147gr Remington UMC I have ordered a replacement OEM glock extractor, spring, and plunger just for good measure, as well as a 15lb spring. After that though, I am out of ideas. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Photos: https://imgur.com/a/DDx64nf