ChrisDeRouen

Tldr : What magazine base pads, springs and followers do you run for ipsc? I'm converting my gear over to ipsc. I shot my Rival S from February of last year all the way up until today's match with a USPSA setup. I ran MBX followers/springs with henning +4 basepads. I never had any issues over the course of about 8k rounds. Today, I ran canik factory mags. Of the five stages I shot, I had 3 failures to feed and one failure to extract. I've never dealt with this before. No gun internals were changed....just mags. Help! lol

Do I need specific inserts or does the base mag pouch work for canik mags?

Be careful with this. I ran the Alabama sectional match and my split ring somehow made its way out of position. Looking at your picture for perspective, the split ring slid up and to the right. I shot a 30+ round stage pump action style. My trigger would not reset. I had to manually rack my slide...ejecting a good round each time...to reset the trigger. Otherwise, it was just dead to the wall. I had no idea what was going on. Went to the safe table and removed my slide....noticed the issue right away.

Lately, I've come across quite a few stages that are 24 or 25 rds. I currently run mbx springs/followers with henning (rival-s) base pads. I don't fully trust running them 24+1. Has anyone used the MBX mags and can tell of their experience? Do they function 24+1 reliably?

He's a GM Carry Optics competitor that shoots the Rival platform. If you haven't heard of him, you will soon enough. As for the 5 star review, some people are quite literally getting theirs from the first batch of production. I'm sure there will be plenty of reviews in due time. To those concerned about slide lock...this thumbrest is machined without that feature deliberately. To clarify, you can run a magazine dry...and the gun will not go to slide lock. It will cycle and return to battery. For most of us, this isn't an issue considering we've been running aftermarket followers that won't bring us to slide lock either. As for those concerned about the positioning....I genuinely just suggest trying it out. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.

It's actually in the perfect spot. The fellas worked directly with Corey Yates in creating it. They did a great job.

Anyone have a Gold "Sport" trigger shoe for the Rival? Been refreshing daily for a while to no avail. Wtb or trade for.....I have an unopened Gold "Racer" and an unopened Black "Pinnacle Pro."

Not necessarily.... when I've changed my striker spring in combination with my recoil spring because I had issues returning to battery.

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I somehow bent mine. My Rival turned into a pump action pistol in a match today. Anyone knows where I can purchase a replacement? I'm having no luck at the moment.

I have mbx followers....and although you can smash 24 rounds in the mag...it's not reliable. Is it reloadable? Yes....sometimes. lol

Well many of us competition shooters would lose the advantage of the additional weight from the larger base pad.... and the feel/grip in our hand to perform a reload at speed. We currently can just change the follower/spring and load to 23+1 reliably. The extremely rare amount of times one additional round is needed is not worth hundreds of dollars in new mags.

This is all good and well, but the atrociousness of their baseplate is single handedly preventing me from purchasing this. I'd love it if they just made a tube for their spring and follower that we could use our TF and Henning base pads with.

I own both. I've got all of the bells and whistles on them as well. Both barrels are picky. You can send them off for $40+ and have them reamed....or just buy appropriate ammo. The guns are both amazing. The steel rival is definitely the way to go for competition purposes though. The benefits of weight cannot be ignored. The guy who had issues with his firearm likely tinkered with his springs and didn't know what he was doing.

What pf ammo are you running and what grain bullet? I have struggled to get the gun to run reliably at anything under a 15# spring. Just trying to figure out what our different experiences may be attributed to.

What ammo are you using?

This...

Now that many of us have had a few thousand rounds through our Rivals (Steel Frame)....I'd like to ask how everyone likes their setup? I've been running the tungsten guide rod set up with a 15# Wolff Colt Commander spring. At around 4k rounds, I had to replace it. I started having issues with the slide not fully returning to battery. I likely could have just tried stretching it back out, but they're cheap.... so I just bought a new one. If you've been running the Springco recoil system, what have you learned thus far? How many rounds do you have on the springs? Is it still running flawlessly? If you've ran both setups, which do you prefer?

I'd like to tune them all to factory specs, as even the ones that may not have given me an issue might eventually. This was essentially the bandaid for my issue, as I have yet to find the needed information. I'll likely just buy a new magazine and pull the dimensions....and then share for anyone who may want the info.

P.S. If you're insulted by my response, I'd imagine you'd also be insulted by people taking the time to question your overall gear maintenance knowledge (as if to insinuate that the lack thereof is the issue) instead of just simply answering your question.

So....with the same time that people took to question my question... it could have been answered. But I'll oblige.... Some of my mags are about 8 months old.... however, the mags that came with my first rival have somewhere around 15k rounds through them. My Springs and followers all were changed to MBX when the new 24+1s came out. I never had an issue with them and they are* "burr" free. My mags get cleaned frequently, as it's literally the first thing I do when I have feeding issues. Again, the obvious issue is that I can visibly see differences in the gap of my feed lips from magazine to magazine. It's sincerely not uncommon to need to tune magazines. I aim to shoot 4 USPSA competitions a month, and also try to live fire practice once a week. Tack on dry fire to the list of abuse I put my gear through too. I don't buy a gun, go to the range to shoot slow fire bullseye, then take pictures with my gun/target for Reddit. Just because you have never had to tune a mag that you own, does not mean others won't need to. Good day gentlemen.

I came here with a question. I just need it answered. My problem wasn't up for debate, but thanks.

Does anyone know the dimensions for the canik mag to run properly? I've been having a failure to feed (round nose diving), and I've narrowed it down to my magazines need tuning. I can noticeably see differences in the gap/width of the opening from magazine to magazine. I just can't seem to find dimensions anywhere so I can tune them. Thanks in advance!

The Rival-S does not have the same dimensions as the polymer version. However, my Black Scorpion Gear holster still ran it without any hiccups.... mind you it was pretty well broken in from my polymer Rival. If you run a holster with very rigid Kydex, you're very likely going to need different holsters for each gun.

I have the zombie pro, vanguard, and sport. By far, the sport is my favorite. The zombie feels good, but when pushing speed....I'd tend to have trigger pull. The hook on the bottom of the trigger is what aided the exaggeration of it imo. The vanguard is nice....but the sport is just the best. I can push speeds a lot without noticing as much trigger pull (if my finger isn't perfect). My sport is also a hair wider than the vanguard which feels nice, and yet it still has the beveled edges.