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What are the signs, if any, that a recoil spring is going bad or needs to be replaced? I bought a G19 just over a year ago and have probably shot over 8,000 rounds thru it. Everything is fine with the gun, no problems what so ever. Just curious about the life expectancy of a recoil spring?
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Posted 14 October 2009 - 06:14 AM
Don't know about a Glock but the recommendation for a 1911 is every 2-3000 rounds so a new recoil and striker spring might be a nice Christmas present.
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Posted 14 October 2009 - 08:15 AM
For their .40's, the recommendation is every 2,500rds. A test you can conduct (with a rendered safe weapon and no mag in the mag well), point the weapon muzzle up, then pull the slide to the rear, slowly control the slide as it is moving forward until the barrel and slide initially begins to lock up, slowly release the slide to see if the recoil spring assembly has the proper tension to lock the weapon into battery. Or if in doubt or at scheduled intervals, just buy the $5 part.
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Posted 19 October 2009 - 04:52 PM
The late George Nonte had what I've always felt was an excellent rule on when to replace your recoil spring. Have a brand new spring set aside for use - and when I say "new" I mean it's never even been in the gun. Every time you clean the piece, compare the length of the new spring to the old. When the old spring's become so compressed it's three coils shorter than the brand-new spring, toss the old one and replace with the new. Therefore you don't have to worry about counting rounds between spring changes. And some gun/spring combos get worn out a lot faster than others. Simply comparing the length of old to new will stop you from continuing to run a worn-out spring, even though it's been so compressed the gun is battering itself on every shot, until you reach the magic number. It also stops you from throwing away a spring that might still be perfectly good.
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Posted 19 October 2009 - 07:05 PM
That may not work so well with the captured Glock springs....
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You're shooting Steel like an A class shooter. Why are you shooting the Paper so slowly? ---- Dave Marques, Production Nationals, 2005
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Posted 19 October 2009 - 08:46 PM
Yet another reason to pop off that end cap and go ISMI. 
Pride and fear are emotions, which hope for an outcome. Outcomes take your attention from the present, where the shooting happens, to the future. It is totally impossible to do anything in the future, because it hasn't happened yet. The key to shooting your best is to be present as the witness of the shooting. Do not judge, do not give yourself anything to live up to. We can only shoot as well as we have trained ourselves to shoot. To try to shoot only induces stress. Be content with your current ability. And accumulate practice to improve that ability. Consolidate, build strength where you feel weakness. We cannot raise our ability until we accept our current limitations. Practice dissolves limitations. Matches simply define where the current limits exist. The game of shooting is all about redefining our limits.
- Sam
Amateurs do it til they get it right. Professionals do it til they can't get it wrong.
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
"The only reason why Everest is the highest mountain ever climbed is because it's the highest. If there was one higher, I bet there'd be people trying to climb it."
- Jack Barnes
- Sam
Amateurs do it til they get it right. Professionals do it til they can't get it wrong.
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
"The only reason why Everest is the highest mountain ever climbed is because it's the highest. If there was one higher, I bet there'd be people trying to climb it."
- Jack Barnes
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Posted 19 October 2009 - 10:36 PM
go to any GSSF match and the armorer there on site will do the check and replace any broken or defective parts for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like the other post said, hold it vertical w/ trigger depressed, and slide just out of battery, let slide go, if it doesnt go back into battery under its own power, mite be in need of a new one....
like the other post said, hold it vertical w/ trigger depressed, and slide just out of battery, let slide go, if it doesnt go back into battery under its own power, mite be in need of a new one....
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