MemphisMechanic

My buddy just installed an APEX last night. Hopefully I can compare ours side by side this weekend. Also you can dremel the backstrap to the shape you want, and then griptape or stipple it. I’d probably be all over it in your case.

Cerakote is your friend. Considering I coat all of my guns in my garage, that stuff is amazingly tough.

I’ll give mine a 9.5 ... It looks like this at all times. (650 in 9mm w/ Mr Bulletfeeder)

Is that an issue with the stock trigger you’re trying to fix, or do you fear the longer reach of the flat trigger might cause it to appear? My GF loves shooting my factory gun with the small backstrap installed and her small hands, so I’m curious.

Listen to this advice! If you get into Limited you’ll want to sell the Nighthawk and buy an equally nice gun in .40 If Production looks like more fun you’ll run a Glock or M&P. So grab a belt, basic holster, and a couple mag pouches and have fun with the gun you have for a few matches and shoot everyone else’s guns in various divisions. Men love showing off their tricked out babies, no one ever turns down a request to let you shoot their weapon.

It works. I do those twice a week when I hit the gym for other primary workout, havent felt eblow pain in 2 years. Which is saying a lot since I’m a heavy equipment mechanic.

This. Going for the razor’s edge in light loads means you’re occasionally going to get bent over by the reliability gremlins. Hard. Bump it and deal with just a *little* bit more recoil, and your gun will actually run when it’s dirty on a cold day.

There. That’s more accurate. Fixed it for you. (FIFY.)

Correct! The shedding grit will embed itself in your plastic holster and gouge the slide badly if you’re not careful, too. I use Talons right now. In the past I’ve had really good luck with high end skateboard tape brands like Mob or Jessup purchased off Amazon for under $10, and a heat gun to warm it up so it stretches and the glue gets extra agressive. Apply masking tape to your gun, trim with X-acto knife, peel off, and stick to the back of the grip tape. Do the front strap and backstrap, then stick the side “grip panels” on so that they cover the ends of the previous pieces.

I wound up flying with 400 rounds. Just a bit overweight, figured I could toss 100 rounds in the trash without crying too hard. Made sure my bag was more than 10 pounds under the 50# limit, too. They barely glanced at the ammo. Oh, also. Regulations say ammo must be brought “in factory packaging.” I had a friend hassled once about his Dillon ammo boxes, even though they store the ammo much more securely than Winchester White Box where it’s all just loose in a small cardboard box. I swiped some empty ammo boxes from the local indoor range’s trash can, and neatly packed my reloads in them.

I’ve tried the app he used. It’s pretty worthless. Often it’d miss two or three shots on el prez and give you a 1.36 split or something between shots 2 and 6. And the overall time was usually off. You can go in and manually set a point for each shot, sliding it to the correct spot. But human error still comes into play. Not worth the effort.

Oh. You’re international! I thought that might be the case by didn’t see a location on your profile. Sorry. BOLO isn’t legal either.

The blade-tech body for my stock3 needed reshaped at the muzzle with a heat gun, and would bind if you drew from it just a little bit canted inboard/outboard. The RHT doesn’t care. Zips out every which way. Same with the RHT body I bought for my Q5 Match the day I purchased the gun. I need fo find a lefty who needs a stock 3 body to sell the old one to, eventually...

Swap the match’s hammer spring into the S3 and see what happens. I apologize for the resulting DA trigger pull in advance.

It puts a pretavel 1911-ish trigger in the gun. I actually didn’t like the feel because I like a trigger that creeps as you apply weight. It’s too good. I’m glad you liked my tutorials on setting up the gun! You’ll like a patriot hammer spring more than the Xtreme ones too. They get rid of most of the stacking that occurs in DA, it’s much closer to the same weight all the way back.

Take the firing pin block out of the slide and see if your weird behavior changes with the slide installed. How agressively have you polished? If your are determined to have a perfect trigger in a tanfo you need to spend around 4 hours in there with a dremel and ultra fine sandpaper. If a short super crisp tanfo trigger is your objective? Install a titan hammer, extreme extended firing pin block, and a bolo disconnector along with a patriot defense firing pin spring and hammer spring. You don’t want an EGD spring in those locations if your goal is the sexiest possible trigger. This may help: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwzRTye8pZ0VD8Mqa6un1kvPZmqnz2f1U

The HoloSun and the CMore railway seem to be the most popular options by quite some margin. Also, why the I added to the end of “PCC”?

Why unbolt? Anytime you dont want a primer fed, just lift the metal ratcheting arm upward until it’s clear of the primer wheel with your fingertip. No need to unbolt anything, or 3D print things.

I had to learn that lesson twice over... so I’m preaching on it hard. Were I to build another tanfo I’d skip the Bolo and Titan - for this reason. Shorter and crisper? Yeah. Worth the hours of working on the gun to make it run reliably (stroking the bolo, loading batch after batch to see what the gun would eat, polishing more)? Absolutely not. Choosing the Tanfo or CZ based upon which one can achieve the most-super-perfect trigger is equally illogical. That’s not what makes your score well on match day.

I think bored internet people talk too much about the perfect trigger. Even more than they waste weeks of time playing with the dremel instead of practicing. I’m quite certain Production Nationals was won the past two years (Gutt, Stoeger) by someone with a 6.5-7.5 pound Tanfoglio trigger. I know Stoegers is pretty heavy. He just pulls it dry/live for a few hours a day.

And an extended firing pin block.

Also the answer is yes, the gun has a firing pin block. To the best of my knowledge all DA/SA Tanfos do. More relevant to you is that it limits how low your optic can be mounted... but @PatriotDefense has a method figured out to mill the slide AND the FPB down in order to get the sight buried down low. Have you found a Limited Pro? They’re discontinued and pretty highly sought after in 9mm!

I’ve been running a 13lb Wilson 1911 spring in my Q5 since the day I set it up for matches and never had an issue with it. 13 feels light as far as “stay in battery” force, when you first install and test it by hand. For sure. But it feels no weaker than an M&P or Glock with the same spring. And all three run fine with it in my experience, when fed good ammo.

In this case, you actually DID fix it. I left two zeros out which I meant to type when I posted that!

@blacklab I know a couple guys who use walmart-grade factory ammo - or the reloaded bulk equivalent - for the stuff inside 100 yards. They switch to pet handloads when distances stretch out.