ColoradoNick

That's what I figured. Hopefully the settlement includes a new BOD or it's just another reason for membership/match fees to increase

This is wild. Is there a court date set? If these allegations are true I don't see how USPSA in its current form survives this? Glad I just bought a five year...

It only does it on empty mags, even with a single snap cap they drop freely.

Mag brake is fine and polished. It HAS to be something with the gun.

Mystery solved, it’s the mbx AND rune followers. Putting a stock spring and follower in the old magazine tube allows them to drop fine. Why would this suddenly be an issue?!

So the plot thickens, the local gun smith told me they were swollen… i just mic’ed them myself and they are all .79-.80 wide side to side and 1.25 front to back which is identical to the new ones. What else would cause the mags not to drop vs new ones drop freely?!

My shadow 2 OR came with a thick buffer installed, my S2 orange a thin. I'm using a 9lb recoil spring and the thick takes the abuse much better and I notice no difference between the thin.

Is this generally a thing? I have a half a dozen CZ brand nickel S2 mags setup with mbx followers/springs and Henning extensions that no longer drop from one of my 2 shadow 2’s. Gun they wont drop from is a S2OR and is spotless clean. Mags are swollen at the top when mic’ed and create just enough friction that they won’t drop when the mag release is hit and they are empty. Oddly they work fine in my shadow 2 orange. The mags are all only 7 months old but have seen heavy use. They don’t ever stay loaded and are used for uspsa matches only routinely loaded to 24. New mags work just fine…

I can definitely get through it, it’s more trying to understand the why behind what’s happening. Shooting a Staccato P, Atlas Titan, and Athena don’t produce the same issue with slide rub. The only thing I can think of is the bore seems even lower on the DWX compared to the Shadow 2 and/or grip angle.

For sure, thumb on the safety, I can grip the DWX high enough where the large knuckle contacts the bottom of the slide as it cycles. I'll snap a photo when I get home from work on Thursday if I can remember. It's 100% my fault, it only happens when drawing but it's where my hand naturally wants to settle. here’s a crappy image that shows my grip on a stage last week.

Definitely comes into play I think, I was always a plastic gun guy before moving to the shadow 2 and then DWX. Part of the allure of the DWX is I assumed the transition would be easy considering I was already very comfortable with the shadow.

The only thing I can say is it I do grip my shadow very high and that's where my muscle memory has me. With the DWX the slide will ride across the top of my strong hand thumb (it doesn't bite me, I've never bled), but there's enough friction that I'll slow the slide enough to cause a malfunction. I'd like to think I'm not a complete idiot, I'd say before I switched to LO I was a mid pack A shooter in CO with some decent competition...

I’m most comfortable with the shadow 2 platform with large safeties. No issues there at all and I subconsciously ride the safety. I think the safety is forward more than on the 1911/2011 design that it feels more natural. What’s really weird is how my strong hand thumb (too high of a grip) slows the slide enough to not chamber a new round/cause a malfunction. This has happened a half a dozen times in matches, and not once with the shadow 2.

0.87 from surrender is flying! I need to spend some more time on that for sure. I recently spent a lot of time working on scoop draws. I’m comfortable enough to use it in a match setting but can’t run full blast “cold” yet. I hit a solid grip about 8/10 times and I’ve consistently hit .74-.76’s. I recently shot 22-06 and pulled a 1.0. That’s the fastest draw I’ve done in a match setting.

No dice on the safety from both of them. Maybe I'll come back to it over the winter.

@Boomstick303 sounds like a good deal to me what do you think?!

im hanging onto it for now until something catches my eye…

Anyone else that’s competing with this gun having issues with your grip? I’ve shot a half a dozen matches with it now and I don’t think I’ve finished one without either inadvertently flipping on the safety with my support hand or the slide riding my strong hand thumb hard enough to induce a malfunction. I’m going to go back to competing with my Shadow 2 with a magwell in LO. It’s 100% my grip on the draw, it’s hard to reproduce in dry fire as well. I’ve messed with holster angles, etc. a ton. Super irritating!

Ive had a weak trigger return spring (brand new) from a very popular brand that would cause reset issues. I replaced it with a Eric Grauffel TRS and it works fine

Floyds Custom TS2 fits seemlessly

A hornady lnl with a mini mr bullet feeder. I may pull that and go back to a powder cop for a bit. I feel like im good (lots of lights) at visually confirming but maybe I let a few slip. Seems highly unlikely though! Thanks

So out of about 10k loaded I've had one previous squib and I kinda new it happened just not which round so it all became range ammo. Yesterday I had 3 Squibs in a row. Bullet just past the chamber, case did not eject. That led me to believe they were primer only charges and for some reason my powder drop wasn't working. I went home and pulled the next bullet and it had a full powder charge. That seems like an extremely rare coincidence? What else could cause a squib? I use One shot case lube, would this effect the powder? CCI 500 primers.

Has anyone here put more than 25k through a prodigy yet?

You sound butthurt… im in the same boat as boomstick. I shoot my shadow 2 very well compared to my dwx. There’s something about the platform that interests me though. I have about 1200 rounds through it now vs about 15k through the shadow 2 platform. Both are fun. Right now I’m enjoying LO.

Its not even the weight, its the straight pull for me. Makes it a lot easier to shoot accurately, even compared to my S2 with full cajun work