bobapunk
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Hi Nick. I recently won an FN FNS 40L, so of course I had to do some online digging and research. I have always been a steel gun guy since I had a Glock 22 years ago and found it didn't suit me at all.
Your name shows up more than anyone else on these FNS searches. Wondering if you are still working on yours, since your last note was from March, and if you have any more up to date information or advice. I looked at Sevigny's site and they are out of stock on the good sights.
Any advice or input would be appreciated. I don't want to just ignore the potential of this gun simply because it is not the big old lump of steel I am used to.
Thanks.
Don Bach
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The trigger on mine broke in as well, I'm just bummed that I can't get some bring in the Apex ballpark. But it won't stop me from shooting it. Also, I really like the sight picture on the stock sights, just wish it was a fully blacked out rear and fiber front. But with a little black sharpie and the girlfriends red nail polish I have myself a really easy to see front sight. Warren makes some really nice sights for the FN pistols. They are sold through sevignyperformance.com http://sevignyperformance.com/products-page/fns-competition-sights/ These are might with a Blaze Orange FO from TruGlo
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Also interesting, I got an FNS9 Compact and the stock out of the box trigger was clean and broke at 5-5.5# So, I wonder if FN redesigned something (the striker is different, skelontinized sort of) or I just got really lucky with the compact. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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Mine was about 7.5# right out of the box. I did my own trigger job, just polishing up the friction points really, and ended up at 5#. After shooting a bunch, it's about 4.5# now. This is all with stock springs and the gun is 100% reliable with all ammo and primers I've tried. I usually use Winchester primers. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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Yes, the springs are pretty cheap, Easy to buy 3 or 4 and keep clipping one until it you get light strikes, then clip another a few coils longer.
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As an interesting side note, I recently picked up an FNS9c and the trigger was 5# right out of the box. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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Mine was 6.5-7# stock. I detail stripped the pistol and smoothed/polished ask the contact points I could identify. After that, the trigger was at 5#. After a few months of use, the trigger is 4.5# when measured in the lower 3rd of the trigger. I'm thinking the clipping the striker spring could get it down to the 3-3.5# range, but, I dint want to sacrifice any reliability. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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I would sure love to have Dave work over my trigger... Or at least knew what he does so I can do it myself.Mine is right at 4.5-5# right now with all stock springs. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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I think the FNS is a better "gamer" gun. The bore axis height and grip angle on the PPQ don't seem very well suited to rapid shooting / recoil management. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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.115 front .150 rear Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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I like the Warren/Sevigny sights I make holsters, do I did this one before anyone else had them available. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk
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For USPSA Production (loaded to ~130 PF)... If Jacketed 124g HPs and Plated 135g HPs are the same price, which would you get/load? Why? I just started using 135s (SnS Coated RNs) this year after the recommendation that they can make PF and still be subsonic. I like the idea of the subsonic, and HPs are generally more accurate. So, if loading up to a relatively low velocity, given that I have been shooting cast lead and just recently coated, is there a downside to going with plated vs jacketed HPs?
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I get a higher SD than I would like when loading on a 550, but Solo1k works pretty well for the price. I spot check the powder charge weight and I am not getting a huge fluctuation there, just a bit of a wider the normal spread on the velocity.
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Italian gun lube, Frog Lube and testing methods
bobapunk replied to DDustin's topic in General Gunsmithing
If you did the part in bold, you didn't follow the directions... particularly the cold weather procedure... pet peeve, people who complain because they don't follow the directions... Thats exactly what the directs, videos and FL reps say to do. I went step by step and followed them to a T. I have been using FL for years. I always wipe it all of and them reassemble dry... Pretty sure that is what the instructions say to do. Maybe I am "doing it wrong" but I haven't had any malfunctions to speak of... -
Italian gun lube, Frog Lube and testing methods
bobapunk replied to DDustin's topic in General Gunsmithing
I am not sure what that test is "telling". It appears to be showing something, I just don't know how valuable that something is... In a 4 ball SCAR test, Froglube out performed the MIL SPEC and was on par with Slip 2k...
