MemphisMechanic

I was referring more to obviously slender mag bodies, when someone is used to the large frame's.

Also the orange followers in skinny CZ-size mags. Worth the money? Depends. What do you plan to do with it?

Focus on reaction time to the beep and getting to the gun as fast as you can. Film yourself. Look at actual hand speed vs. how fast your hands feel like they're going vs. video of top GMs. I've never shot anything but Production. Assisting (flicking the mag off to the side) has never been necessary with a Glock, M&P, or a Tanfoglio. It's just something you felt was helpful. Practice your loads with an empty gun, simply hitting the button earlier and rolling the gun aggressively back directly to where you insert your mag. Once that's consistent put an empty mag in the gun. You'll find it falls out just fine.

I used to be a strong proponent of the "in your face" high reload position. Honestly if you watch the top guys, some load ultra-high like Todd Jarret, and some load rather low. Find the place that works for you. Championships have been won with both. (The bigger the magwell, the farther up and out the loads seem to take place for most people.)

Chuck a Q-tip into a cordless drill and run it down the inside of a spring after dipping it in your polish of choice. That's the easiest way I've found to polish a coil spring. Similarly, for the outside, lightly chuck the spring into the drill and spin it inside of a rag while wet with compound. I don't think polishing springs makes any difference in a Glock, however it does help slightly with the hammer spring on a conventional double-action firearm.

Minus connector of your brand preference. Polishing. Heavy trigger spring and lighter 4.5 striker spring ... if you feel so inclined. Invest the rest of your triggerjob fund into 2,000 rounds of ammo burned up in live fire practice. Best trigger kit for the Glock there is. Hands down. Every Glock GM that I've run into has been quite happy with a recipe very close to that.

Whatever makes you faster than the guy picking individual rounds out between strings and speeds the match up WILL NOT cause grumpy squadmates.

Everything's noticeably better. From someone who is Production A trying to push himself to M (so just a little ahead of you on the journey)? Keep watching video of your movement and reloads and comparing them to the various production Ms and GMs on YouTube. Be critical, and use it as motivation to work on hand speed and foot speed. As I've suggested often: unload your gun and run back and forth across your largest room in the house that has good footing, and film yourself. Or do it in the back yard airgunning with your cleats, if your house is tiny. When you learn what a fast looking sprint actually feels like, it's a huge eye opener.

I agree. On how it feels, and on it's "volume vs velocity" curve.

Making a Stock 3 legal in IDPA and slapping the Wilson regime in the face with the ultimate SSP Gamer Blaster was a worthy enough goal to make me curious.

As I said, it's the flaring of that 1/8" high ridge all the way around the INSIDE of the bottom of the magwell that is actually the key. The problem with the Tanfo is not the size of the bottom opening - it just seems that way before you modify one and learn this lesson. The actual problem is that if you get the top round up into the center of the opening but your mag body isn't perfectly aligned with the grip, it binds badly on that internal ridge. The internal clearancing is more important than the visually impressive stuff you can see on my gun.

Switching to grams now to increase precision of scale display, mag with henning pad: Without pad: Henning pad weight alone. (Factory pad is 4 grams): The spacer in the back of the mag @PatriotDefense says will remove 3/4oz of weight. It'll make the mag .110" longer if removed. Cutting the spacer out of one mag in order to test this is tempting. Loading to 1.160" would result in the same front-to-rear slop as loading to 1.050" with a factory mag. That should certainly be a tolerable amount of play.

Man this sure would be easy with plastic... Bare gun setup for Production: With mag. Damn... over No guide rod or basepad. Ambi safety still installed:

I'd love to have a non-adjustable sight made for the rear of the gun, which mimicked the factory one in the center of its adjustment. One less thing to fail. Dawson has enough frontsight heights that virtually anyone would be able to zero their handloads.

It can. Both the EAA and Xtreme are surface hardened so you don't want to go carving into it, but I'm quite happy with my polished one so far.

What you're probably feeling is the sear sliding against the face of the hammer hooks. How well have you polished yours?

Yes that's normal. It concerned me initially too, but your gun will run fine. I'm glad to hear the videos helped. I created the resource I would have liked to have when I built my gun. If there's anything I left out somehow that you still had to figure out on your own, let me know.

Then just set up a stage full of tight hallways - walls very close together - and riddled with ports that each have one or two 3 to 5yd targets in them. Maximum close quarters gun juggling per easy hoser target. Kind of a crappy goal, but if that was what I was seeking to challenge, that's how I'd go about it.

I like the Ghost rocket, with the overtravel stop you trim down to fit your gun. But honestly? Pick a "-" connector and install and enjoy.

Ammo first: What primer are you going to feed this gun, off of which press, has the chamber been reamed, and how deeply do your primer depths actually, precisely measure? If you're seating Winchesters on a 1050 at least .005" below flush, I'd tell you to simply install a Bolo with current hammer, drop down to a 13 pound PD spring, and expect a reliable gun. If you want to feed it factory ammo or CCI primers, that changes things.

You're going to get a procedural for that, because IDPA. Overshooting a position in IDPA or USPSA when your foot slips, stepping back in bounds, and firing a shot is always okay.

A fully polished gun will have a trigger pull weight around 8 pounds with the Medium. A gun fitted with the Light? At or under 6 pounds. I can't say what an IPSC-compliant "no internal polishing" gun's trigger would weigh. I polished mine before doing any testing.

You stand up tall and shoot. More bend in the knees and weight more forward. At all times. When you move from Box A to B, you shouldn't be dropping to run then popping up to shoot in that narrow tippy stance in B. Wide low stance that has your head as low as your movement height, always. Weight 50/50 on feet when you enter a box to shoot. Your draw slows to half speed on distant targets, which is common. Focus on getting that thing up and on the target as fast as possible. No reason to move hands slower - that time needs spent refining sight picture once the gun is up. Really go for breakneck speed on draws in DF for a while. Miss some. Then back down to match pace to finish each session. Use the same aggression getting the gun up at 25yd as at 7. Your reload has a huge wasted movement: You bring the gun back to an extra position off to the right to dump the mag and then bring it back to centerline and drive it down onto the magazine - making the gun a moving target. Snap it straight back to "magazine insertion" point where you clap your hands and hit the mag button on the way.

Only post-cerakote image that (almost) shows the magwell:

The biggest improvement is found reducing the ridge around the INSIDE of the magwell all the way around, which causes the mag to bind when you don't insert it dead straight. That lack of ability to hit the gun at a slight angle (but with bullet dead center in magwell) is the reason guns like a Glock are much easier to reload than the factory Tanfo. Beveling the front and rear flat portions on the bottom of the gun obviously helps, but not as much as the former modification. Here's my gun, from the thread posted above. It's been modified more extensively than the others in this thread, and reloads are vastly easier to hit than my G34 or M&P, now.