bountyhunter

True, but the problem with tht is the new "resting position" of the trigger would be in a place where the firing pin safety plunger was partially raised, reducing it's effectiveness. And, the trigger would appear to be fully forward because the center saftey lever is forward as it is supposed to be. I'm not sying this is horrible, some comp shooters may choose to set up their triggers so they only return far enough to reset the trigger. But, it does negate the FP safety's effectiveness to some degree.

If I had a dollar for every Glock or XD owner who did that, I would never have to work again.... You can also use the edge of an X-acto knife at right angle to scrape the center edge to level it off rapidly and it doesn't affect the rest of the trigger face.

The nose of a Glock striker has several machined grooves to accept the corner of the firing pin plunger. As the plunger is raised, it lines up with the groove that allows the striker to come all the way out. Plunger down, it goes into the shorter channel which does not allow that. If it is banging into the plunger, you can usually see it in that area.

Here is how to tell if the plunger is dragging on the striker:unload, cock and fire and HOLD THE TRIGGER BACK. Rock the gun fore and aft and you should hear the striker flipping back and forth free in the channel. If it is not moving, something is dragging. Try pulling the trigger a bit harder to get the trigger bar farther back and see if it frees up the striker. If so, the safety plunger is dragging because it is not fuully raised.

Yes I think I know what it is, and NO light strikes are not part of break in. The trigger bar is releasing the striker before the FP plunger is fully raised. Did you check the nose of the striker and see if the edge of the groove is getting dinged from hitting the plunger?When I installed the Sotelo kit in my 35 it did exactly this. I ended up having to reshape the rear of the trigger bar to allow it to proceed a bit farther back before it released the striker. On my current setup, I had to go back to the stock plunger which raises a bit earlier than the rounded off one. It increases the pull weight slightly, but it stopped the light strikes.

My wife runs the cardiac unit at the county hospital and her staff routinely gives the "lose weight" lecture to all the fatties with diabetes and heat failure....The punch line is that the cows on her staff are fatter than any patient they ever get. They all have bad knees and joints from the weight overload, they all have "disabled" parking stickers and use up all the parking spaces the patients should be getting.... they actually have to order special wide-body, heavy duty chairs for them to sit in (no joke). It must be hard to keep from laughing when being lectured to lose weight by somebody who waddles in on a cane and can barely get their 400 pound carcass out of a chair.

I bought a new Para a few years back from a very nice seller.... and the gun was a complete POS. It was not the seller's fault, but if I had been able to look at the gun in person it would have taken me two nanoseconds to reject it. It really is a crapshoot and you have to take that into consideration.

I have bought a few guns off the net. I write them emails to get a feel for them and even call them on the phone. Even if the people are honest, buying any gun unseen is a huge risk. I would only do it if the savings were substantial.

The only time I unload my duty gun or back up/carry gun (G22/G23) are when I go to the rang eto practice with them. At our Dept, you cannot show up to the range hot, so I unload my gun in the safety area of my trunk as soon as I get there, including all the mags. After practice, the range master will usually let me load all my mags and mark the guns hot and holster them before I leave. I have no idea which round was the one chambered, but I guess I need to start paying attention. Since I have 2 guns that have qualed with, the dept has given me 100rounds (50 per gun, I carry 46 on my work belt). I don't know if they ever trade them out. I remember back when I was beating my head against my stinking Para 1640 (recurtting the feed ramp to get it to feed), I was hand cycling ammo to test the feed from magazine. I would just use my calipers from nose-to-tail on the rounds and anytime somebody slipped a little, it went into the "practice ammo" box that got shot next at the range.... a couple of those suckers REALLY slid when the slide slammed them into the vertical Para feed ramp. Anyway, I would think it would be easy for you to get some cheap calipers (I see digital ones all the time for $20) and keep an eye on the carry rounds overall length just to see if anybody slipped.

Becareful to smooth the inside surface of the cylinder that the end of the crane tube runs against. The tube will usually wear a groove there. The shims are the same outside diameter as the tube, but extend farther inside. because of that. they will bind up if the inner part of that ridge is not smoothed off. hard to explain, take my word for it, the inside needs to be flat for the shims to fit right.

When ever you check B/C gap (and end shake) manually push the cylinder forward and take a reading, then back and take a reading. Take readings at all six tube locations. Also, check the gap at the breech face to cylinder. If that one is a shade high and the B/C gap is a shade low, you've got an easy fix with shims. If the breech face gap (called headspace) is too tight or right on minimum, shimming the cylinder will cause it to bind there.

Yeah, but that's pretty much true for just about anything that ails most of America....

You got lucky on one front. Good kids are a lifetime blessing....... and some people don't get that blessed.

UPDATE: Well, over a month, and here's the scoop: 1) The blood has basically been absorbed. The cottage cheese vision is gone now, that's good. 2) The dark black "tumbleweed" which was blood clots are still there, but they are not black anymore...more light gray. They are not leaving and probably never will but I can see through them and don't notice them most of the time. For those who think junk always "settles to the bottom" in the fluid of your eye, I can tell you it isn't true. The fluid is very thich and some stuff just stays where it is. 3) The hole they patched is holding. I see it at night in low light when my eye dilates. It scares me sometimes when I get up to go to the bathroom because it looks like a big round black spider just below the focused area. During the day I don't see it. 4) My lasered eye got blurry focus for a while, but it's mostly back to normal again. I guess this is as good as it's going to get (most of the time I don't notice it) but there is still a lot of crap in there.

The ones with the raspberry filling residue are a lot harder to clean.

Is the bullet set to far in when it is manufactured?I don't get how rotating the ammo would affect this. BTW, my para 1640 used to feed rounds so rough by slamming them into the bottom of the feed ramp I could read various amounts that the bullet was being driven into the case. Never had a case blowout luckily. By rotating ammo, I'm sure he meant rotating the ammo in the magazine or with ammo that is going to be fired for practice. The idea is to not have the same round repeatedly chambered everyday, which will eventually result in bullet set back. To understand how this happens, you have to realize that for LEOs and military folks who carry often, they'll chamber around when they get on duty/go outside the wire, then unload and clear their gun at the end of the day/get back to base. If they just chamber the same round over and over again, the bullet gets pushed back into the case. I didn't know they had to unload and clear every day. Since they are licensed to carry anywhere, it would make more sense just to leave it loaded......... I agree, rechambering the same round a lot is a dumb idea and will drive the bullet into the case.

It's generally poor people who say that..... I'd like to test that theory for myself. Even if I can't buy happiness, I'll bet I could rent some.

....there it is. +100 Jim M That makes sense or knowing how my fellow officers care for their weapons it could be a build up of donut goo in bore. That's funny... CDNN sells complete used Beretta top ends for the 96 models that came off police guns for people who want to shoot .40 from their 92's. You can always spot them because the bores are completely pristine, night sights are dimmed out, with plenty of holster wear and donut crumbs on the outside..... seriously, the one I got had a bore that looked like new.

Is the bullet set to far in when it is manufactured?I don't get how rotating the ammo would affect this. BTW, my para 1640 used to feed rounds so rough by slamming them into the bottom of the feed ramp I could read various amounts that the bullet was being driven into the case. Never had a case blowout luckily.

Yep, and you will likely find it to be the case if you are buying reloads. I won't mention any names (COUGH! miwall COUGH!) but the crap I am shooting does the same thing. I had to ream the throats of my aftermarket barrels to shoot 9mm reloads.

What I have noticed is so many actors tend to be insecure whiners who get more insecure the more successful they get because they are afraid of "losing it". I really don't get it, if I had the guy's money I would raise the middle finger flag to the world and stop dragging my aching body to work and start enjoying life. It's too bad, but from all the info I have heard (and there has been plenty) his friends say he has been committing "passive suicide" for quite a while.... behavior that will surely lead to early death.

Let me see if I can picture this.... We just had hail here in "sunny california". We have been on the freezing end of a "cold spell" that's about two months long and counting.

If the pin holes in your frame are in the correct place (and straight) you shouldn't have any problems at all.... That's the big "if"...

I agree, but just to show we are not picking on Glock: the 1911 grip safety is every bit as dumb as the Glock trigger safety since (like the "trigger safety") it works only if nobody touches the gun. based on what I read, John Browning agreed and only added it at the request of the Army. You will notice the grip safety conspicuously absent from the Browning HI=Power which JMB did his way.

Sights LIE... they always exaggerate the amount of movement. Aiming misalignment is a tiny error compared to trigger yank movement.