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'Nother oh yeah - the brass that bulged was all PMC.

Oh yeah - my barrels were all marked differently, one had no markings on the rearmost part of the barrel, one has "Sig" marked on it, and one has the letter "C" on it.

To be fair, I never contacted Sig. I had a 'smith lengthen the chamber a thousandth and have had no problems with that barrel since. I have two other 320's that never exhibited the problem with bulging brass so left those alone.

Negative.

P320 full size.

So you're sayin' you don't think a Lee "bulge buster" in 9mm will straighten that brass out & make it reusable again?

Did your brass look like this:

Dunno how many I've bought since I joined USPSA in 1989 but it has been a LOT!!!

I'd try to get ahold of Eddie, bet he'd figure it out pronto!

Smart choice!

Hey Matt - I can not truthfully say it didn't run, it ran fine with the 18 round mags that came with the pistol. It's when you try to up the capacity to 20-21 rounds that failures occur on a fairly frequent basis. I could never find a combination of followers/springs/mag tubes/base pads or OAL that would run even 90%.

Decided to test Rishiis' fix for feeding problems - dunno if his unmodified frame looked like mine or not but second pix shows the "over-insertion" ledge of which he spoke. The right side of the mag lip hits the bottom and stops the mag at that point. First pix shows a K10 mag (from Henning) with 40 S&W rounds and inserted into the frame - no way those rounds are hitting that shelf! Mystery remains unsolved as to my feeding issues!

Dadnabbit Rich - where were you with that "hack" 4 or 5 years ago? I just checked that DW frame - as I had an Open top end built on it - and sure as shootin' that ledge is still there. Wish I had known about grinding that ledge down a few years ago, sure would've saved me a lot of $$$ and aggravation!

Oh yeah, Greg Krebaum -Fred Craigs partner - was the 'smith that built these pistols for DW and we shared many an email regarding the mag issues and potential fixes. In the end I had Lone Star Innovations put the top end on an SV frame - never had a mag issue thereafter. Dunno how many of these pistols were made but there's a reason - aside from price - why they didn't catch on.

I still have some of those tubes & parts and while I could get them to hold 21rounds, they were never 100% for me. I'll sell 'em to you if you'd like Rich, sounds like you know how to make 'em work.

I went to a 6" cuz I'm old - joined USPSA in Jan, '89 - but I never noticed much of a difference under match conditions between my plastic gripped 5" and the Caspian framed one. Could see the sights better on the 6" though!

Oh yeah, mine was serial # 11.

Could never get mine to run 100% unless I used the 18 round mags from Caspian - those were 100% but were capacity-deficient compared to a 2011. I tried a bunch of different followers/springs/tubes but had little success . Now this was before MBX was in business so things could have changed dramatically in mags since I owned - and subsequently sold - mine. To say I was disappointed in mine is a vast understatement!

Not been my experience over three of Shays' pistols!

Thank you!!

Hey jaep1911 - what is the difference in weight between the GG fat guide rod and the SP tungsten one?

PM inbound.

Rookie! We'll throw a classifier out if they're just a half inch out of spec!