tark
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Then don't do that! A 1911 is not designed for the slide dropping on an empty chamber, using the slide release or not, with your finger off of the trigger. It is designed for the slide to chamber a round, with the trigger held back by your finger, during the firing cycle. And ditch the 18 # spring. a 16# spring is fine. I have seen more ruined barrels come through the shop with cracked lugs because somebody felt the need for a heavier recoil spring to "ease the shock" from firing his hot rod loads. I'm not talking about the locking lugs on the top of the barrel, but the underlug that the slide stop passes through. Too stiff of a recoil spring causes the slide to slam forward with too much force. This can result, over time, in the lug cracking, which ruins the barrel. I could tell whenever another gun with a cracked lug came in by simply listening to the explosion of profanity from Les, who personally opened and inspected RMAs that were returned.Yes. Functions fine. The only issue seems to be dropping the slide on an empty chamber with the slide release.
You can ditch the shock buff as well, it offers no real improvement to the guns functioning. And it does force the slide to "short stroke" by about a tenth of an inch. This normally poses no problems, but if the recoil spring is on the weak side it could mean the difference between the gun fully chambering a round, and it not chambering a round, because the slide was stopped short of its full reward movement. If you must leave it in, then at least replace it every couple of hundred rounds. I have seen shock buffs the came apart and tied up the gun because they weren't changed. They're cheap! replace them often!
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