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My customer service experience hasn't been anywhere near this good. I noticed the frame on my gun had a crack in it, along the slide rail by the safety hole. You can see it pretty clearly in this picture: I contacted EAA, explained the situation, and was told to send it in. They recieved it back in October. I've called more times than I can recall since then, and while I'm thrilled that they say they are going to replace the entire pistol, it has been over six months without any solid response. When I call, my inquiries are met with a "Yeah, it shouldn't be taking this long, let me get your number and I'll have a manager call you back." I've been told to expect a call back from a manager at least four times so far and have not recieved any calls from EAA. To be fair, yesterday morning I did get an email asking if I still wanted to use the FFL I had originally told them I was going to use back in October. I'm really hoping that this means I can expect something soon. It's a shame, really. I love the Tanfos and can't imagine shooting anything else. I've got very large hands and I feel cramped with the controls and trigger position on the STI and SVI platforms. Even the CZ offerings feel small to me.

Any chance we will be seeing any large frame base pads in black or silver before this coupon expires?

A torch and a table vise later, and it seems to be working just fine for now. I'm still going to order a replacement mag catch, but I feel a lot better knowing I should be able to go another weekend without issue. Thanks again for the help.

That's pretty much what I was thinking, thanks. I've got to see if I can snag a new release asap though, I'm taking Stoeger's class next weekend and would like to not worry about my mags falling out. Hopefully I can bend mine without snapping it or rendering it useless in the mean time. And I'm keeping my K40s, they're solid enough and I'm not about to go back to the whole "load long and maybe they'll feed THIS time" game.

While cleaning my Limited 40 the other day, I swapped my base pads onto new mags with new followers and springs. I inserted them all into the gun to ensure there were no hangups, and found that all of them easily came free with a small amount of wiggling and pulling. Fiddling with the mag release button I noticed it was ever so slightly loose, in that it would rotate a degree or two around the trigger bar. I've attached a video to show this off. Now, when I apply pressure to the non-button side of the mag release, securing it in place, the mags will not come out no matter how much I try. I took everything apart and tried stretching out the mag catch spring just a hair to see if that would fix it. There was little to no difference. I've got some old 10mm shiny black mags that do NOT have this issue, but my MG WIT 40-LF marked used mags, and my brand new unused K40 marked mags both easily drop free with a bit of wiggling. Is it just time to replace the mag catch and the spring with new ones or am I missing a potential bigger issue? Thanks for the help! Video: Pics (click for megahuge):

Out of curiosity: Did you order the 21 round reloadable magazines ($95)? Yup.

I just ordered mags from Henning a month ago and they were the new K40 ones. I emailed ahead and asked as well to confirm this before I ordered, just to clear up any confusion.

Ditto on the one mag working. I can press on the valve on the non working one and it will release air, but it doesn't work in the gun. Gotta fiddle with it some more.

So if I purchase the Henning-Built Competition 40 S&W Magazines from Henning, would these now be the new Mec-Gar mags? Just wondering, want to make sure I get enough so I can retire my old ones and keep everything uniform.

Still waiting on my replacement ammo... getting kinda worried again. In the meantime, I did more draw and dry fire practice. Then I noticed my trigger was resetting kinda funky. The overtravel set screw had become loose, even though I'm sure I used locktite. Fixed that, did some more draw and dry fire practice. If the ammo doesn't get here tomorrow it looks like I'll be missing another match. I really need to get my own reloading gear.

5" it is then. My concern now is which model exactly? I recall reading that you want to avoid 625-2 and 625-somethingelse for whatever reason. Is that right, or would I be good enough with any old 625? Are the locks that big of a deal? Thanks for the advice guys!

I've been toying with the idea of a revolver setup for USPSA as well, and I was just wondering one thing. I know I want to get a 625, but what is racking my brain is whether or not I should look for an older 5" model or if the newer JM 4" one would be a better fit for me. It sounds like the JM is tuned more towards competition shooting, but the extra inch on the barrel sounds like something I'd want. Can anyone offer any insight on this?

Welp... I missed the combat shoot earlier in the week because UPS lost my ammo. A whole case of 1,000 rounds of 40sw long. I've ordered at least seven or eight cases and I have a hard time understanding how you lose a 40lb crate of bullets. Sure, maybe it broke open and they didn't care to put it all back together, but when I said I've ordered that many cases before, this was easily some of the best packaged stuff I've ever seen. And I work in the small package delivery business. So much thick packing tape and so many staples and reinforced cardboard and... Ok, I'll stop ranting now. They're sending a new case, the email I got back from the shipper suggests that this happens often enough that it isn't a big deal. Dry fire practiced for an hour on Monday and Wednesday, practiced with scale targets set up like CM 99-13 Quicky II. Looks like it will play out strikingly similar to parts of CM 99-46 Close Quarter Standards, just with more distance. I just shot CQS a few weekends ago, and if I can go at the same pace and get my hits, I should have no problem putting down a mid 60% on this one. However, the end result isn't my goal. My goal is to go in and just be aware of everything and try to recapture that feeling I got last weekend. Just let my body react to what my eyes are seeing.

I've noticed that as well. A friend of mine that I shoot with shoots a CZ75B SAO in 40 and shoots L10 since he can't fit a competative number of rounds in his mags to do Limited very well. It is always him and at most three other people at a big event doing L10. Guess I'll help bolster that number for a few weeks lol!

Sonofa... Welp, the monthly classifier routine was run, and the three scores from this past weekend were not in it. So looks like I am running Limited 10 for a month to practice my fundamentals.