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I run a SJC micro dot mount with a deltapoint. Works great! The sturdiness and compactness of this mount is definitly worth modifying the frame for.

That's exactly my major load for my G35 as well, I just run Winchester primers instead but I get dead on the same result for a low 170's PF.

I have one mag that I can get 20 reloadable in. I had to use a 2nd gen mag to make it work but the important part is the follower. It just has 1028 stamped on it and has the two legs at the back. I cut about 50% of those legs off, cut 2 coils off the spring, and sanded the top side of the follower down about 1mm. I took enough material off to completely remove the molded in .40 in the curved portion. Between all those things, I can get 20 in it and still have enough travel left to make it reloadable. For the trouble it was to make work, I rarely find the instance where I need to use it for any kind of competitive advantage though. Unless you just like to piddle with stuff like this, I wouldn't bother.

Another satisfied user of Titegroup and WST here as well!

I use MG or PD 180gr FMJ over 4.5gr Titegroup for major and the same bullet over 3.5gr of Titegroup or WST for minor. Both loaded to 1.130" OAL for Glock 35's.

I had some weird feeding issues in my production and limited G35's with ammo at 1.135" OAL, randomly I would have a round feed into the chamber nose high and jam that way. After I dug into the problem I found the mags had varying feed lip gaps. So some mags would let the next roud come up higher in the gun than others, thus changing the angle it fed into the chamber. After some data collection (read a lot of shooting here) I found the mags with the narrower feedlips had the problem, the wider ones fed like champs. I gapped them all the same width as the largest gap I had in my group of mags (12 all together, max gap was .394") Since then I haven't had any issues with either gun. Just something to look at from a reliability standpoint.

We definitly need video of this!!!!

180gr. Jacketed bullets with ~3.5gr of Titegroup or WST loaded to 1.130-1.135" are great minor 40 loads. I'd definitly go with the heavier bullet, much less flip in recoil, more of a push....a lighter bullet with create the opposite effect.

I used 2x4's to build a perimeter frame and then put cross braces every 24" on center. Then I topped it with 2x10's. Makes one hell of a sturdy bench and there's plenty of meat there to bolt, screw, clamp anything you ever wanted to the bench. I've got a RCBS Rockchucker, Dillon 550, bolted down and 4 holes with star nuts in them to bolt down the MEC loaders (12 or 20ga) when I need one, but when I don't I simply unscrew it and they slide it out of the way.

My 35 was doing something similar. It was like it was pushing the round into the chamber nose high. Meaning, it would ram the bullet into the uppper part of the chamber at such a steep angle it would wedge itself there and couldn't rotate into line with the barrel to continue foward. I tried everything (COAL, springs, etc) and fianlly fixed it by going through all my mags and opening the feedlips up to a 0.390" gap. I measured all my mags (~12) and 0.385"ish was the widest factory one I had and some where down in the 0.345" range. I don't know what the factory gap spec is and couldn't find that info anywhere. Since opening them all up to 0.390" gap I havent had this problem at all in about 1000 rounds running an asortment of mags. Here's my theory on what's happening. I was loading to 1.135" OAL and the lips being closer together held the next round in the mag down lower, thus when the slide came forward to pick it up it had to nose up at a more extreme angle to get in the chamber and thus ramming the bullet into the top of the chamber. Now with the magazine lips opening up slightly the angle is reduced (cartridge is more in line with the barrel) and the problem is resolved. I also found out if I loaded to 1.120-1.125"isht the problem mostly went away as well which would explain why factory ammo seemed to feed (most of the time, not 100%) and reloads wouldn't. I've done this on my Production and +5 Limited mags, for 2 different 35's and ahvent had a hiccup since.

I've got an JD X500 also, absolutely love it. I've got some really nasty terrain around a create and about 2 acres to mow and it does it with no effort. That locking rear-end and better hill manners (than a zero-turn) really pay off for me.

I think I'm in love with the comp design!! Notice any strange or problematic wear on the guide rod due to that setup?

I'm in this same boat right now trying to find a 40 major load I like for my G35. I've got varying charges of TG and Power Pistol loaded up with 180ggr FMJ's to chrono but haven't had a chance to shoot them yet. There's a lot of folks running TG in 40 major at ~1.135". Most data I've seen puts you at the upper end of the recommended powder charge (4.5-4.7gr) to make major but lots of people do it without issue. You could go with a slower powder (ie. power pistol)but if you double charge it and fill the case your probably going to Kaboom a gun also. As long as 4.7gr of TG will make major for me that's what I'm going with. If it doesn't I'll go with the Power Pistol or try Universal Clays.

I run a 13lb IMSI spring in my G35 shooting minor (180gr @ ~130pf). I ran a 15lb spring and had some feeding problems when running close the 125pf floor, the 13lb spring cleared that right up. I also noticed that the 15lb spring made the gun seem really sluggish and slow to recover from every shot. I did experiment with cutting coils off a 15lb spring to reduce the preload at lock up but still maintain a 15lb rate during slide travel. Cutting 3 coils off did the trick and it would cycle at 125pf but the 13lb spring still felt quicker in my hand. Just food for thought.

I run a 13lb IMSI spring in my G35 with 130-135pf loads and I run a 15lb IMSI spring in my other G35 for 170pf major loads. I'm running stock trigger springs (just polished everything up) with the 13lb spring with no problems.

So I played around with this more last night and got all loading smooth as butter to 20rds each reloadable. Solution: The Dawson mag extension has a slight chamfer at the top of the interior lip in the extension body. Took a small file and increased this slightly and then some 800 grit and then some polishing compound and smooth both the front and rear lip of the extension. This a long with some pretty liberal radiusing of the follower and they all work great now. If the chamfer was about 0.010" deeper then it would line up perfect with the interior deminsions of my mags but they are plastic molded mags so YMMV. Also, I would think that if you take too much material off the basepad then you'll creat a lip for the follower to hit coming back up into the mag body during feeding which would be an even bigger problem. I wouldn't recommend going at this whole hog right off the bat. On a side note the Logo 1 and and Logo 2 mag bodies both work great so no real difference there.

I did what Matt G did......those pouches aren't going anywhere!

I've got two of the "Logo 2" mags with #8 followers as well and they do the same thing. I measured up the Logo 1 and Logo 2 mags and cannot find nay significant demisional differences in the two so I'm not really sure what Glock changed between the two mag bodies. Dave, thanks for jumping in and replying to this. I feel like I've got pretty aggresive with the radiusing of the followers on all 4 sides and it did help but they still hang and require a bump on a hard surface to get the follower to pop over the lip. How much of the tail can you take off and not cause the mag follower to rotate (nose down) and bind inside the mag body?

I cleaned up all the mag bodies and got rid of all the mold flash and smoothed out the transition area from the metal liner to the plastic body with some 800 grit because there was a small lip there as well. The magazines feed the gun great so I'm really leaning towards the hold in the extension being a hair smaller than the exit hole of the magazine creating a lip. Its a problem I could live with but I'd rather not be beating on my mags every time I have to load more than 17.

I got four Dawson +5 extensions to build my G35 into a L10/Limited rig. I've got new magazines (1 molded next to the Glock emblem at the botton on the backside of the mag) and #8 followers. I radiused the "tail" of the follower per the Dawson instructions to ease follower movement down into the extension and the dang thing still hangs up on the 17th or 18th round going in the mag. I can tap it on the table from all for sides of the mag and then pop it on the table on the base and then get the last couple rounds in the mag. I can get 20 in all but one mag doing it this way(I think I can get 20 in it once the spring relaxes). So I'm pretty certin the follower is getting hung on the lip of the extension on the way down but I don't see much more I can do to help it unless I start taking a file or dremel the extensions themselves to smooth out the shoulder a little more. I did take calipers and measure the width of the lip on the base of the mag body and the width of the "shelf" it sits on in the extension and the extension's "shelf" is about 0.010" wider than the bad of the mag body so there is a 0.010" lip for the follower to get hung on. However, I've radiused all edges of the follower more than enough to "slide" over a 0.010" bump. Any ideas? Is this just something I'm going to have to deal with when loading magazines?