Robar just completed building my Alloy Extreme in .40. For those that don't know, Alloy Extreme is Robar's proprietary branding of a CCF Raceframe unit. It includes a G-22 size CCF Slide, CCF Barrel and Stainless-Steel CCF frame. I have noted that most of the problematic guns discussed here were built with parts from various manufacturers. However, since this particular gun is built from the ground up with all CCF major components, I think it may just represent as close to an optimal control testbed as can be found. That said, prior to picking it up, the folks at Robar advised me that although the gun can be fired now with no restrictions, I may see fairly rapid wear of the shock-buffer. They also advised me that a new recoil system will be forthcoming in a few days, and that it will be sent to me at their expense. I understand that this "recoil system" consists of an improved guide-rod and recoil spring, so my hope is that this new "system" will turn out to be the silver-bullet for the FTE problems that seem to be prevelent within this and other forums. My initial shooting experience with the gun last night (yes I was dumb enough to take it out to Cactus Match for it's first firing) revealed FTE's on the first through roughly 12th rounds, with a mag-swap somewhere in-between just to eliminate the initial mag as a contributing culpret. Incidentially, I was using only 165 grain, White Box ammo and will continue do do so until I can report acceptable reliability. There was a little improvement on the next stage though as I got two to three rounds between FTE's. Needless to say, I was able to contain my enthusiasm at that point. The 3rd and 4th stages however gave me no FTE's in about 50 consecutive rounds fired, so things are going in the right direction. Later disassembly revealed zero wear on the shock-buffer. At this point, my initial overall assessment is that the gun handles very nicely, so my hope is that the gun may just need a few hundred more rounds put through it to fully break it in. And no my friends, none of my other standard Glocks (G-17, G-19, G-23, G-36 and G21SF) ever required that! But then, they weren't all-steel. Stay tuned... more later.
