Braxton1

I am trying to picture this... What is catching? The lower lug of the Firing Pin and the sear? Slide Cover Plate vs. Sear? If the Trigger is pulled, releasing the Firing Pin to go forward, that shouldn't be able to catch the sear unless one inadvertently pulls the slide back too far and resets the Firing Pin.

Yepper. And Birchwood Casey makes a Brass Black solution to erase those marks if they won't come off with WD-40 and a toothbrush (they usually do).

Using an aluminum punch, one can exert quite a bit of "oomph" on an rear sight, which you'll need. For the cost of a bottle of Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black, you can move that sight all around and any evidence will be erased by the Aluminum Black. I don't see anything specific to the SIG 365 on the Brownells or MGW websites. A universal sight pusher will run somewhere on the north side of 100 bucks and some of them will do more damage than good because of the way they hold the slide....

There isn't a difference between Gov't, Commander, Officer's, or EMP hammer struts. There are some manufacturers who produce them out-of-spec; some intentional and some accidental. I have seen some with such a small curvature that you could feel the hammer drop through the grip safety and others so curvy that I am shocked that the strut didn't forcibly reset the Trigger during cycling.

I would call Chuck at Shooters Connection. He gets those in pretty regularly, based on watching the website, but they go quickly. Perhaps he could put you in-line for one....

About the only "same appearance" is that the Performance Trigger shoe has a Trigger Safety and is black also. It is much more "blocky" in appearance and flat-faced. Anything more than the most-cursory glance will reveal the swap.

Without seeing a Suarez Gen5 slide, I may be way off here, but my first thought is: - is the Suarez breechface similar to the newest Gen5 slides? When the 17M and 19M first came out (the true predecessors of the Gen5), they had a similar issue. Glock corrected it by cutting that small channel on the side of the breechface opposite from the Extractor.

The ShellShock cases, albeit expensive as heck, have the straightest interior walls that I've ever seen. There's even a company producing a 185 grain 9mm Luger cartridge. The projectile is as long as the case itself and it doesn't bulge the case. The second "plus" to this case is that it's magnetic. You can pick them up with a magnet on a pole....

Regrettably, it is practically impossible to find a LH or ambi for a Gen1/2/3 Glock. Probably the biggest improvement of the Gen 4/5 was the Mag Catch.

It only gets used when the 550 is direct-mounted to the benchtop. Most use a Strong Mount now, so it's rarely seen in the wild...

I am pretty sure Jason was referring to his usual 2011 platform Open Gun, not a Glock. (I went ahead and answered because he's rarely on the Forum anymore.)

Nope. The Gen5 has a different lower lug on the barrel.

Generally speaking, 147s at "soft Steel Challenge load" velocities are going so slow that you get NO feedback at all, especially on longer range stages like Speed Option and Outer Limits. You're already moving to the other box before the "lack of a clang" alerts you to an issue. 100 grain Berry's 9mm bullets at 1100 fps are great. Be sure to stay away from the 100 grain .380 bullets. The nose profile is so different from the 9mm version that you have to load them very short to have any neck tension exerted against the bullet.

That should present no problems at all, especially if the slide was cut for a collared plug.

The folks advocating "trial fit" are dead-on with their answer. I see many plate failures, OEM and aftermarket, that are caused by improper installation. "Too long screws" are generally the issue. If the plate screws are too long, the plate will not clamp down the slide. Rattling around causes those screws to fail in short order. If the optic screws are too long, the plate bends....

IIRC, Carry Optics in the US was originally spec'ed out to be "Production with a Slide-mounted Dot". It was initially a 10-round Division. Max weight was 35 oz. and all holster and mag pouch rules applied to both Production and CO.

I texted with my AD earlier. January 2024 is the earliest that Hi-Cap Prod can happen because of a BoD procedure about Rule changes. My argument was "Implement immediately because almost everybody that has/does shoot Production is doing it with downloaded magazines. They already own 15+ round mags.". I have long advocated to see "15" as the standard. just for compatibility with the IPSC rulebook....

Not 9Major or SuperComp, but I was party to some pressure testing back when .40 S&W was experiencing failures like this. It was found that reducing COAL by 0.030 ("set-back", if you will) DOUBLED pressures on some loads. This was all with factory ammunition, so the powders used were probably not ones that reloaders have access to, but it does prove a point. 40 is very sensitive to COAL.... The setback that most were concerned about in this research wasn't "the cartridge hit the ramp once and pushed the bullet into the case". We were finding a lot of cops who were unloading and reloading their duty guns on a daily basis. They would use the same cartridge for this process every day. Eventually, it would get shorter.

John Vleiger was using the heck out of those cases in 9Major and loved them. I don't know if he is still using them, as I don't know how supply chain issues may have affected them...

I have shot Tata Eusebio's Super at the Chronograph. It is soft-as-heck with 147s at USPSA Major. And relatively quiet.

I haven't built any 7" slides, but I have gotten close by using Tru-bor blanks and fitting them to 5" slides. I put a dovetail at the very front of the comp blank. With no comp cuts, it is legal for Limited Division in USPSA and Tactical Div in 3-Gun events. The point? In 3-Gun, where a lot of targets are 4X10 plates, the super-long sight radius makes it almost impossible to miss.

Has anyone tried putting a Dawson ICE or similar 2011 magwell onto a Prodigy frame yet? I'm curious as to whether it'll fit....

When Jeff Cooper defined the "Condtions" it was: Condition 4: Chamber empty, no magazine in the gun, hammer down, safety on. Condition 3: Chamber empty, full magazine in place, hammer down, safety on. Condition 2: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer down, safety on. Condition 1: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer cocked, safety on. Also referred to as "cocked and locked." Condition 0: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer cocked, safety off.

Considering that most GI's are forced to carry in Condition Three, there's very little opportunity to have an unintended discharge of any type (human caused, mechanical failure, or design failure). I was stunned when I was teaching a class to Military Policemen in Atlanta and they told me that they have to carry like that. In their case, they were right in the middle of an urban area and really bad stuff could come upon them instantly....

Please remember that springing a Glock is a balancing act between the RS and the Firing Pin Spring. If you go too light with the RS, the Firing Pin Spring will overpower it and may cause issues with the gun failing to return to battery. The OEM 5.5# springs will probably be too strong for anything lighter than 13 pounds on the Recoil Spring and will likely cause intermittent failures to battery. Lower than 11, it'll be almost constant.