Any Gun owners out there?

[Phases]

I have to ask Phases, were the initials deliberate? I find myself at the B.S. page often. ;-)

Lol nope, happy coincidence.

 

[filthy phil]

Lets revive this thread

 

[bcrichster]

Modified

 

[bjacks12]

I have the SD9 VE....it's a good gun.

 

[bjacks12]

 

[bcrichster]

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throw in some Trijicon night sights & an Apex (trigger) spring kit and that joker rocks like a MOFO! Haha.. That's what I did and it's Wicked [emoji41] Worth it

 

[Unforgiven]

We have a place to debate the Constitution. This isn't it.

 

[codesplice]

So there's some sort of new gun forum or something?

I kid! Joined up!

And I don't have a Glock in my arsenal just yet, but the wife has purchased a G26 for my Xmakkuh present

Reminds me... here's that Glock:

Look how cute!

 

[tonylc74]

1911 all the way for me.

 

[Unforgiven]

At least until they liquidate Colt.

 

[tonylc74]

There's other 1911 manufacturer's that do a better job will they liguidate them all?

 

[Mikestony]

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1911 all the way for me.

I always was fond of the 1911's...I flip flop back and forth with getting one. I hear good and bad about them, so I'm still undecided

 

[Phases]

There's a Colt DE at our new LGS. I've wanted one a long time. It's so tempting!

 

[Unforgiven]

There's other 1911 manufacturer's that do a better job will they liguidate them all?

Only the ones dumb enough to go bankrupt during a period of massive sales growth.

 

[bjacks12]

Seriously...how do you go bankrupt in an environment where you sell everything you produce? You could mark up a Taurus semi-auto and still sell your entire stock.

 

[tonylc74]

Only the ones dumb enough to go bankrupt during a period of massive sales growth.[emoji14]

Exactly haha!

 

[Strings]

Colt's Manufacturing is doing fine. Colt's Defence, on the other hand...

But that's what happens when you're subcontracting you govt contracts to a third party: eventually, the govt will go straight to that third party (in this case, FN)

 

[bjacks12]

Eh, eventually one of the competitors will buy Colt and all will be fine.

 

[bcrichster]

Eh, eventually one of the competitors will buy Colt and all will be fine.

Smith & Wesson maybe?

 

[bjacks12]

throw in some Trijicon night sights & an Apex (trigger) spring kit and that joker rocks like a MOFO! Haha.. That's what I did and it's Wicked [emoji41] Worth it

How has the trigger kit impacted the performance?

 

[bcrichster]

How has the trigger kit impacted the performance?

truthfully? It's made a WORLD of difference. Best $25 I've ever spent. The SD9VE has an excessively long trigger travel before it fires. Whereas my hand would start to shake a little ( = low accuracy) by the time it would fire, it now is like butter. My weapon now has about the same pull tension as my son's toy gun and is most excellent to use. The other thing that made the biggest difference was replacing the plastic guide rod spring with a stainless steel version. When the gun got little more than warm, it wouldn't cycle correctly and jammed on feed AND eject... Progressively getting worse. Those two changes made it completely flawless. Any time - all the time, regardless of heat. That guide replacement was $25 as well. Seriously. A WORLD of difference. I wouldn't recommend any composite firearm without making those changes. As for bad primer/firing issues? Nonexistent with those spring kits. Well worth the $$

 

[bjacks12]

I think I might do that. I haven't fired it enough in any individual trip to have heat issues(because I'm cheap, lol).

Right now my biggest issue is my Ruger MK III. Took it out shooting a couple weeks ago and it was having constant FTF issues....probably gunked up from all the cheap thunderbolts I've put through it. Not looking forward to breaking that one down to clean.

 

[bcrichster]

I think I might do that. I haven't fired it enough in any individual trip to have heat issues(because I'm cheap, lol).

Right now my biggest issue is my Ruger MK III. Took it out shooting a couple weeks ago and it was having constant FTF issues....probably gunked up from all the cheap thunderbolts I've put through it. Not looking forward to breaking that one down to clean.

Right. The heat issue was about 100 rounds into target practicing, firing 2 seconds apart. Was fine when fully cooled but had FTF sooner and sooner each time I went practicing. I started doing research and discovered that many ppl had similar issues and worse on occasions (broken guides..) So I decided to fix that. Real quick. Those components I mentioned did the job real well.
Does your Ruger have plastic/composite parts or just a maintenance issue?

 

[bjacks12]

It has some plastic/composite. Could also be a maintenance issue. I bought it used 2 years ago for $150. I haven't really used it much because of the scarcity of .22LR. What little bit I have used it has been amazing though, prior to the last shooting trip.

 

[bjacks12]

It's the Mark III 22/45 Target model.