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$300 no questions asked and a bump back to the top for you. Rick

I've been out of town for a week. I was lucky enough to be at a spot that I was able to shoot and dry fire everyday. I had a couple of shooting boxes available and looked like a lab rat running back and forth between them. Had a grand time. Love how this thread has developed and the great input. Thanks everyone for all of the help. Rick

ric t, You don't have to agree with everything that anyone does but the NRA is the organization that represents shooters on a national level. I'm amazed that others let you slide by with that cut on this board. I'm a proud Endowment member and think that if you own guns you should be a member too. You can always ride for free from the other sacrifices of conscientious gun supporters though. It does take money in the real world to step up and make the good fight. Rick Ingle

Congrats! Sounds cool to me.

Nice comments Steve, thanks for sharing. Rick

There is an article in Front Sight, the USPSA magazine, this month that speaks to using the Carver mount and the need to lower the ejection port with the competition mount. Rick

Buy ammo is a great theme. I will spend twice the cost of the gun on ammo for this season easily. You don't need a new gun, what you have will win anything that you can win. I would recomend Matt Burkett's DVDs and Brian Enos' book. So if you want something to spend money on there you go. Rick

By practicing the right things the right ways you will save yourself a ton of aggrivation down the road. Brian's book is a must have and it's CHEAP! The price could be tripple and still a deal. Shoot groups for accuracy, do draws with hands relaxed at side and from surender, do turns with your draws, practice the types of reloads that you will encounter, draws from a table, shooting weak hand and strong hand, movement in and out of a shooting box. You can do most of these types of drills without ammo and get a good return on your time invested. Have fun and watch out shooting bug is a bad one to catch - you don't get over it very easily. Rick

Bluntly, I couldn't tell the difference between the factory 3.5 connector and the Wolf Ultimate Overtravel stop as far as movement past trigger break - overtravel. I thought that I might try one of the Ghost Rockets, but if you have already tried one - I might as well stay with 100% Glock parts. Thanks for the info and the help again. Rick

If you were going to order another connector would you order a Std Glock 3.5 connector or a Ghost Rocket connector? You're right they are relatively cheap. Maybe should get both and play around.

One last note. It probably occurred while pulling the connector in and out of the housing while changing from the Ultimate Overtravel stop to the factory one. Never heard of this one before, but one more thing in the library of experience with the plastic gun. Rick

I just posted on Glock talk about my trigger and not resetting very well. You know if you pull the trigger and pin it back and not let it forward and then work the slide manually and then let the trigger out slowly you can feel that positive reset? Well it was gone in this gun. With your help and even though I WASN'T using a Ghost Rocket connector their site had this trouble shooting guide: SECTION III: TROUBLE SHOOTING PROBLEM SOLUTION Pistol does not fire TCT is too long Pistol fires sluggishly TCT is too long Trigger does not reset Connector bent too far inwards, bend out slightly Light primer strikes Replace firing pin spring with an extra power spring Light primer strikes Option 2-Shorten TCT an additional .001 until pistol fires Trigger feels rough Check connector surfaces for burrs of metal caused by the shortening process. Anyhow I bent it out some and the trigger reset is back and all is well in Glock land once more.

Check the time on the last 3 posts.

Rockclimbing, thanks man. It was the connector angle in the ejector housing. I just had to bend it a little bit and everything seems back to normal. Just pulled the slide back and took off of the rear plate and pulled the striker for disassembly. The next range session should tell the whole story. Thanks again. Rick

How do you get the slide off of this thing if you can't pull the trigger?

Can't get it to fire at all now. I think I am going down the wrong path and I really don't have a clue what is wrong. I am still open to any other ideas. Rick

Wrong, I smacked on the bottom of the empty mag similarly to a tap, rack and the problem reoccurred. NO IDEA what the hell is up with this thing! Stock ejector is in the gun. Will replace it with the Wolf Ultimate Overtravel and see if I can make the problem go away again.

Trigger spring is fine and 300 pound the problem exists not with the Wolf Ultimate Overtravel installed it happens with the stock ejector. I think that I am narrowing it down some. You know when you pull the slide off and just look at the connector and where the trigger bar meet? The same place that you place a drop of oil for lubrication. The connector and the trigger bar have more space between them than the other G35. I bent the connector out away from the ejector housing a very small amount and the problem seems to have went away. Over 200 dry fires now without the problem. Has anyone else seen this before?

Damn strangest thing that I have ever seen. I put the Ultimate Overtravel Stop back in the gun and fired 50 times without a mag in the mag well and no issues, then inserted a mag and fired 50 more times. 100 shots without an issue. I don't get it, the thing is just a stock ejector housing with a set screw. Any ideas for me. I might swap it out with the original again and see if I can recreate the problem. Rick

I've looked over the slide pretty seriously and found nothing wrong with it. As far as being in battery that was checked at the range and again tonight. I did swap the slides since I have two of these things and the problem stays with the frame and doesn't follow the slide. I did pull out my Wolf Ultimate overtravel stop and replace it with the stock one that came with the gun. I wonder what I could have put back together wrong. I put the Ultimate Overtravel stop back in and see what happens. I am getting it to produce the problem without a mag now and with an empty mag. It isn't just isolated to rounds in the mag like I first thought. Put a stock recoil spring in and still does the same thing.

Stinger, I run a pointer too, but a GSP (Germain Shorthair Pointer). You did the right thing by not giving her the business after the offense. You NEED to get her a large crate especially when she is that young. My wife just bought a new Lazy boy recliner. She was sitting in it and I was on the couch the dog was in the living room with us when he was a puppy. He was quiet and not bothering anyone. You guessed it - he was chewing on the wooden base of the chair. Shredded it pretty good right there with both of us there. I finally heard something crunching. I did give him the business because he was caught in the act, but after the fact there is no correlation to the issue at hand. Get that dog outside and let her run. She looks great. Rick

I know in certain areas GM was offering the same prices that employees get which is a substaintial savings over the list. More than you might realize. I don't know if that ended at the end of June or not though. A nice Midsize car is the newly restyled Pontiac G6, the Buick LaCrosse is also a beauty. I want the new Buick LaCerne (sp?) just because it has cooled and heated seats. Seriously nice stuff. Rick

About 7000 rounds through the gun. I'm at the range tonight and fire about ten rounds I put my finger on the trigger and pull it completely to the rear and the striker would not release. Tap, rack, no bang again. Another tap, rack and no bang, another and one round fires then nothing again. As you Glock shooters know the trigger is in quite a different position when the gun is in the ready to fire position vs when the striker has already been released. I pulled the slide off and took it totally apart. Cleaned the striker channel out which was clean already. I removed the extractor, the plunger and the striker assembly. I tore the striker assembly all the way down and reassembled. Didn't change a thing. I pulled the 3 pins and removed the trigger group and cleaned and inspected and reassembled. No change. I can get the striker to fall during dry fire with no mag in the gun and with an empty mag in the gun but when rounds are loaded it won't function. I tried multiple mags and that wasn't the issue. I pulled out my other G34 and shot the same mags in the gun and everything functioned properly. The trigger safety does function and while the slide was off I pushed the plunger in the the striker falls forward with absolutely no resistance. It will allow the striker to fall forward with it tilted only 10 or 15 degrees from horizontal and when vertical it's a piece of cake. Can't figure this one out and could use a little help from my friends. Rick

The lady joined this site in 2001 and is going to shoot nationals. I bought bet my best Glock that she knows what she is doing.

Right when he is going to leave the box the camera cuts off his feet so I really can't tell about the foot spring movement. I do definately see a lean before he leave the box when he shot this and the video was taken. He very well might do it differently now. Thanks for the video Flex. Rick