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Well just got back from running 209 rounds through the Tactical at the local indoor range. Was in there testing out the new hogue grip from xd-hs2000.com and Don's guide rod and 24# spring combo from pistol-gear.com . I ran out my 10 rounds of Federal Premium Self-Defense in 185 grain and two boxes of WWB in 165 grain.
Hogue Handall Grip - This one product has made my gun more comfortable than almost anything else I could have imagined. Makes the gun a little wider , but my hand on the gun doesn't bow out or anything all the bumps and curves are perfectly placed. I will never take this thing off.
Don's guide rod and 24# spring - Review for this item is mixed currently. Guide rod seems to work great and I don't think any of it was its fault. The 24# spring gave me more troubles than I've ever had, actually it gave me my guns only troubles. It did a great job of reducing recoil and getting the gun back on target so I have to commend it for that but it also gave me some troubles.
First, I had 1 semi-stove pipe. Last round of the magazine and it came up and pinched paralell with the slide.
Second, 1 fail to feed. Next to last round got lodged in the barrel funny and the last round was pushing up on it. Took a bit to get this jam undone, but did and it fired both out no problem afterwards. This took me about a minute to clear and this would really suck to have happen out in the field.
Third, the gun was failing to rack into battery after the last round fairly often today. After awhile I marked one of the magazines to see if it was magazine specific. It turns out that the problem was with only one of them and I'm assuming that its been the one that stays bedside with 9 in the mag and 1 in the chamber every day. I don't have any way to tell really, but I'm pretty sure of it. It seems as though the new return spring is closing the slide hard enough that this now slightly weaker spring can't get the slide lock up in time or with enough force to keep the slide from closing. Any suggestions on what spring to try to keep the reduced re-coil but to fix this not going into batter/jam/stovepipe issue? For now I'll be returning to stock I believe.
Laser light combo - I've been fighting this thing for awhile. I finally machined a small tab that would lock into the cross rail on the picatinny to keep the thing on the gun (previous efforts would give me two mags before it fell off the end of the rail, each shot farther off target). Today it stayed on the entire time I had it on the gun. I took it off because after I switched it off and went back to the stock sights it was slowly backing the set screws out of alignment to the point that after about 60 rounds or so I turned it back on and it was pointing at the left side of the range and down at the floor (only about 10 feet to the left and 5 feet down, real close to target :roll: ). I'm thinking a little loctite could completely solve the issue, but of course I didn't have any on me at the time.
Technique - I'd found myself pulling the trigger too hard and holding the gun offcenter from my wrist so most of my shots were trailing right and low. I quit that today (with some help from the hogue lining my hand up better) and was back on center mass again. Pics to follow when I get home from work tonight.
Hogue Handall Grip - This one product has made my gun more comfortable than almost anything else I could have imagined. Makes the gun a little wider , but my hand on the gun doesn't bow out or anything all the bumps and curves are perfectly placed. I will never take this thing off.
Don's guide rod and 24# spring - Review for this item is mixed currently. Guide rod seems to work great and I don't think any of it was its fault. The 24# spring gave me more troubles than I've ever had, actually it gave me my guns only troubles. It did a great job of reducing recoil and getting the gun back on target so I have to commend it for that but it also gave me some troubles.
First, I had 1 semi-stove pipe. Last round of the magazine and it came up and pinched paralell with the slide.
Second, 1 fail to feed. Next to last round got lodged in the barrel funny and the last round was pushing up on it. Took a bit to get this jam undone, but did and it fired both out no problem afterwards. This took me about a minute to clear and this would really suck to have happen out in the field.
Third, the gun was failing to rack into battery after the last round fairly often today. After awhile I marked one of the magazines to see if it was magazine specific. It turns out that the problem was with only one of them and I'm assuming that its been the one that stays bedside with 9 in the mag and 1 in the chamber every day. I don't have any way to tell really, but I'm pretty sure of it. It seems as though the new return spring is closing the slide hard enough that this now slightly weaker spring can't get the slide lock up in time or with enough force to keep the slide from closing. Any suggestions on what spring to try to keep the reduced re-coil but to fix this not going into batter/jam/stovepipe issue? For now I'll be returning to stock I believe.
Laser light combo - I've been fighting this thing for awhile. I finally machined a small tab that would lock into the cross rail on the picatinny to keep the thing on the gun (previous efforts would give me two mags before it fell off the end of the rail, each shot farther off target). Today it stayed on the entire time I had it on the gun. I took it off because after I switched it off and went back to the stock sights it was slowly backing the set screws out of alignment to the point that after about 60 rounds or so I turned it back on and it was pointing at the left side of the range and down at the floor (only about 10 feet to the left and 5 feet down, real close to target :roll: ). I'm thinking a little loctite could completely solve the issue, but of course I didn't have any on me at the time.
Technique - I'd found myself pulling the trigger too hard and holding the gun offcenter from my wrist so most of my shots were trailing right and low. I quit that today (with some help from the hogue lining my hand up better) and was back on center mass again. Pics to follow when I get home from work tonight.
