bountyhunter

I have a single stack STI that was origianlly 9mm and had a .40 top end added. The receiver and slide stop require no changes (same ejector/slide stop works for both 9mm and .40). The slide assembly, as well as the magazines have to swap. 9mm ejector may not work with .45, but it does work fine with .40. BTW, having a whole top built will probably cost you what a new gun will.

I agree about $500 for just the gun and maybe $150 for the magazines, so $650 sounds about right ballpark.

That's exactly why I've been consistently warning people against the junk C&S pins for several years. I bought several when they first came out with them. Haven't broken one yet, but not one of them worked without modification. They all had mold flash or burrs and they dragged in the FP channel requiring rework. All extended far enough out at rest to drag on the primers, and all had to be filed to allow them to go farther back into the frame. They really were absolute junk, I thought they might have fixed them by now.haven't bought any lately, so I don't know if they did.

OK, well all the ones I have ever worked were cheap MIM steel so they were not brand new production stock. Not sure what prompted them to go to titanium, I assume they were having failures. Does SW give the better pins out if you call and beg for them? Just curious, I'd like the Ti pin better because of lighter weight but don't really want to buy any more FP's.

Hmmm....I don't think that's right....aren't the factory firing pins made of titanium? Randy? I have polished a few and I think I would have noticed that....

Actually, I enjoyed 300. Like I said, it was campy and a lot of fun because you can't take it seriously like the gore in other films like Saving private Ryan. If it had been played for serious effect, it would have been pretty depressing.

What's the difference between this and actors/actresses spending hours getting their hair and make-up done? How about Jamie Fox losing 30 lbs to play Ray or Deniro gaining that much in Raging Bull? Not much difference, it's all illusion. It's just hard to keep from laughing when you see guys pump up and stand around in leather speedos with their muscles flexed. I have trouble believeing that was the standard uniform of the day.

By design, the XD striker is almost fully pre-cocked (the Glock is only at about a third of it's travel), making it indeed much easier for the expert tinkerer to produce a nice short trigger pull. But, the XD (and SIG and Beretta) all use the same basic FP safety design which requires the trigger pretravel to raise the blocking plunger to allow the FP to strike the primer. In guns where the pretravel is greatly reduced, the trigger bar's rearward position is "pre loading" that FP safety plunger making it either completely ineffective or close to being out of the way.... so, that tiny trigger pull distance has a price.

A wise man once told me never to worry about the weight of the flea on top of the elephant standing on my foot. IMHO, the vast majority of "unfortunate discharges" with Glocks are the result of finger twitches on the trigger, not dropping the weapon on it's muzzle..... which, while dangerous, at least sends the bullet downward. Because of that, I think that lightening the trigger and reducing travel distance to break point are vastly more dangerous than marginalizing the drop safety. Just my opinion I would not dispute that pro shooters using the guns for competition can operate them safely enough, but the safeties are certainly reduced in effectiveness.

I don't know why they wouldn't, considering they shoot rounds through it before they sell it to see if it works. If you cut or grind on it to fit it they won't take it back.

OMG! You noticed that too?! It made me long for one of those good old, Arnold or Sly movies! Whatever that means, but as a matter of fact: the guy who played the lead in 300 was laughing about the same thing on jay Leno: the guys in the movie had to pump about three hours a day average to keep themselves pumped up for the scenes. It would be funny if one of the out takes had caught them with their stomachs relaxed.

Then you didn't watch it with your wife....

Right... genuinely hilarious comment considering. My point was, it was pretty obvious the film knew the target audience. If you don't believe it, rent the film and tell me: who would be insane enough to go and meet the king of the enemy's forces alone..... then casually turn his back and let the guy walk up and start stroking him from behind? I didn't make the movie, just rolled on the floor laughing at stuff like that. And the costumes were ridiculous... the size of those codpieces probably caused a foam rubber shortage at all points west of the Rocky Mountains.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd take one of my jeweler's files and square up the inside edges of that extractor so it could get maximum bite on that case rim edge. I see an angle on that leading edge androunding off inside. That ain't helping you.

Shear fracture is usualy caused by too much brittleness (not ductile enough). It could be that the steel they are using is too hard to begin with, or they are hardening it. You might try getting a new one and annealing it a bit (heat the tip up and let it cool slowly).

Been there, did that on my LDA1640. That POS would jam every other round when new, and the rounds were hitting the flat part of the ramp hard enough to drive some of them .050" back into the case.

We got T-Mobile a couple of years ago with the plan where all long distance calls on the weekend were "free".... sounds great, but their network was so overloaded it was completely impossible to get a call through on any weekend in our area. Seriously. They finally expanded their cell capacity so we can get through...sometimes..... Talk about a ripoff.

My netflix delivery came and it was the gladiator flick 300. Watching it was a real hoot. The actors are so overly serious and hammy I kept wondering if they were playing it straight or if it was supposed to be campy.... it seemed the latter. That made it a lot more fun. The violence was so cartoonish that you can't take it seriously, kind of like watching an itchy-and-scratchy cartoon. Heads and arms popping off and flying up in the air.... pretty impressive from a single stroke of a sword made back before steel was available. The really funny part is watching all these over pumped guys stand around in tiny speedos for the whole movie..... it was like what we see every year at the gay pride parade on Castro street. Seriously, I don't think there was a single scene where they were not wearing them. Anybody who ever did any body building (30 years ago for me) knows the muscles only stay defined for a short time after the workout where they get the pump of blood. In every scene, these guys are all standing there sucking in their guts flexing their abs and posing like greek statues... it was hilarious. The gay parts were hysterical.... the spartan king went to meet the evil king Xerxes.... who, by the way, was seven feet tall and another buffed up beefcake. Xerxes walks up behind the spartan king and starts stroking his shoulders. My wife yelled out: "GET A ROOM!" And I was howling on the floor laughing. At the end when the spartans are all dying and laying on the ground, the captain grabs the king's hand and says: "It was an honor to die with you...." Who writes the dialogue? Anyway, the real hoot was the final scene where the Persians launch a million arrows into the air... and then they show the spartan king on the ground with maybe two hundered arrows sticking out of him... So, if you want a few laughs or want to give the wife a treat and let her oogle two hours of beefcake standing around flexing their abs... it's worth a rent.

Not to mention your trigger pull.... Some people get so hypnotized by the dot wiggle they completely forget how to shoot... the old "wait til the dot is right on the X and yank the trigger before it moves" syndrome. I call it "dot dazzle".... There is an optical illusion effect when the dot dances as the edge of the dot goes out of the black.... your mind tells you the shot is out, but it probably is not. The bullet is hitting the center of the dot, but your eye sees when the EDGE of the dot gets out of the center very easily. About 10,000 rounds of .22 bullseye at 25 yards finally convinced me your eyes lie as to how much the POI is moving when looking at a dot. They always exaggerate the movement.

We prefer to be called "yankees"... A "yanky" sounds like somebody overly occupied with self stimulation.

" Hi, I have a widebody 40 that slide locks with one round left in the mag with great regularity. " Now if I was having this problem, the first thing I would assume needed trimming was my thumb..... I have seen (and caused) this exact problem when I had to fiddle with the spacing of the magazine's feed lips to allow the nose of the round to ride a little higher up to get good feeding.... it also allowed the follower to ride a little higher and could bump the slide stop sometimes.

Anybody try one of those Lone Wolf six-port jobs that go into the open top G-35 slides? I was wondering if it would spray crap all over the front sight.

Glock 22 9mm conversion barrel, price $145. https://www.efkfiredragon.com/products.php?cat=43&pg=2 I think you don't need to change the ejector or the extractor. At least, my G35 extracts fine with the 9mm conversion barrel.

I have a SS STI frame with a 9mm top end and a .40SW top end. Although it seems to be folk wisdom that the two calibers need different ejectors (and slide stops), mine works perfectly with no changes at all to the bottom end. I just drop the other slide/barrel top on it and shoot (does require different magazines). My .40 top end was built up by Bob Hunter at Hunter Customs. You might get a quote from him, he did a good job on mine. Which ejector are you leaving in, the 9 or the 40? It started life as a 9mm Trojan, so all of the frame is stock 9mm stuff (ejector and slide stop). The .40 top was added later. It may be true that the 9mm ejector tip is too close to the .45 primer for comfort. It never occurred to me that the primers would be different diameter.

The new FP's do extend less distance through the breech, but they are long enough assuming they are OK. It may be that this one has some burr on it keeping it from coming all the way out. It could also be dragging in the channel. Either way, they are soft MIM metal and you can easily polish the sides smooth if necessary. If you want the pin to be able to come out more, you can shave some metal off the rear indentation in the FP that acts as the stop. And as stated above, make sure the strain screw is tight.