I am interested in two similar guide rods for My 1911's
Drew can you post contact info?
Thanks
Mike
TI Rods:
My shooting buddy and I have had a bunch of rods and reverse plugs made. The rod is approx. 60% lighter than 416SS, and is 90% titanium, 6% Scandium, 4% Vanadium, or more commonly called, Beta-Grade Titanium.
The rod is all one-piece, CNC Lathed and Milled, and can be gun-drilled in the center or not.
We have a fellow shooter, and Master Programmer, who makes them for us.
The diameter is the same as a Caspian full-legnth rod, and has a 'horse shoe' button end similiar to the McCormic button, and the button end is the same Diameter as the Caspian rods, but Beveled at the top so that the link/barrel do not contact it.
The reverse plug is the same O.D. dimensions as an SV, but the front shoulder on the inside is flat instead of beveled, so that the recoil spring does not get pushed into the rod and cause as much spring drag as some of the other reverse plugs.
The total weight is going to be about 1/2 of 416ss.
My experience with this rod/plug is that at first it seems to make the recoil impulse feel snappier but faster. The plug takes off a little weight from the slide, and it seems to reciprocate faster. The rod seems to make the gun move off of the target easier, but it does not seem to 'jump' off the target like the shorty guns as much. The best thing is that the gun does not DIP as much as with the heavier parts. I actually chanced from 115gr bullets to 121's and 125's, as they feel softer/bouncier, but with the rod/plug, it feels more like the 115's but not as snappy/poppy.
I also ended up cutting off the last set of ports on my comp, as I felt I had to 'muscle' the gun from target or 'sweep' them almost to get the target transitions. The result was quite to my expectation and my liking.
With these two changes, my gun recoils faster, still settels cleanly, and the dot doesn't dip below where I break the shot, but returns very well to that same spot on its own without any additional grip.
The charge for the rods is time and materials, but is a good thing to check out before you spend the $$ on a whole new gun.
I have TI rods in my 40 and 45 singlestack, and find that the gun pushed less in my hand. The Tungsten rods and plugs made the recoil impulse and slide movement seem slower, the gun pushed more, and the muzzle climbed higher and stayed higher longer than with the stainless or Titanium. I think, that, for my guns and with the attributes I was looking for, they were the awnser.
I tried the recoil master products and liked them, but I had too many of them break. The button is punched to keep it from rotating, but in this process, they are stripping the threads, misaligning the button to the rod, and I had one of them shoot apart and fly out of the front of my gun. SO, I went back to what worked the best previous to them.
I am running a SV w/Caspian slide, Cone-Comp EGW 5-port (was a 7-port). I've shot the brazos and SV IMM (ti barrel) gun and could not stand them for anything. They took too much weight from the wrong places.
OK but if you're interested I could hook you up with my machinist friend and he could get you some pricing. I'm sure he'd like the business, but he is really busy and the materiall availability comes and goes.
Titanium guide rods for 1911's?
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