I was checking in at one of my local gun stores for something completely different and saw they had one last DVC-P in stock. It was one that was the old DVC-P with the Gen 2 grip. In the end, I walked out of the dealer for the same price as the XC retails for, and they even installed my SRO for free.

I took it out today and put about 500 rounds through it, but ran into a problem. Eventually, the slide started hesitating and not wanting to go back into battery.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the issue is lube, but I want to put a stronger recoil spring in it. Does anyone know what the stock spring is and what weight I should go to for shooting full power Speer Lawman 124/147 grain 9mm?

Also, anyone know a good place to get extra magazines and/or recommend a good magazine loader? My Maglula does not like the extra girth of the 9mm/38 Super mags

It would be cool if you would just type out exactly what you're referring to (Maybe include the manufacturer & provide a link, NOT just a little known 'acronym' designation...Three times!) instead on making everyone google it to see what you're actually posting about! It's not like you're talking about an AR-15...

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
It would be cool if you would just type out exactly what you're referring to (Maybe include the manufacturer & provide a link, NOT just a little known 'acronym' designation...Three times!) instead on making everyone google it to see what you're actually posting about! It's not like you're talking about an AR-15...

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Had to google it too. Does the DV stand for Darth Vader? Looks like his 1911

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
It would be cool if you would just type out exactly what you're referring to (Maybe include the manufacturer & provide a link, NOT just a little known 'acronym' designation...Three times!) instead on making everyone google it to see what you're actually posting about! It's not like you're talking about an AR-15...

While you do have a point, is there a good reason why you felt compelled to act like a complete douche?

Now that I'm not running around doing errands and posting on my phone, I can add some extra information and some pictures of my new toy:




STI/Staccato loves to change things around constantly, even more than Sig. What started as the Costa Carry Comp turned into the DVC Omni which turned into the DVC-P which is now the Staccato XC. It's a 9mm 2011 pistol with a 5" Barrel with an Integrated Compensator. There's no set screws or shims. It's all one piece with the front sight stuck on the barrel to help with reacquisition during recoil.

With the SRO on top, the gun is easily the most accurate gun I've ever shot. If I slow fire, I can make one ragged hole standing at 25 yards, but it's so damn hard to slow fire this gun. The massive comp on the barrel kills enough recoil and muzzle flip that it makes full power defensive ammo feel like weak .38 Special hand loads.

Mine is essentially a DVC-P but has the current Gen 2 grip the current Staccato's have and it was $300 less than the current model with no differences. The guide rod is a Dawson Precision Tool-less rod that doesn't need a paper clip to capture the spring in order to take apart the gun.

While I am very sure the problems I had with the gun was me being so excited to shoot it (and excited while posting the question), I wiped all of the packing stuff off and didn't reoil the slide rails, barrel hood, and barrel lockup and the gun just slowed to a crawl. However, I still wouldn't mind getting different recoil springs, but the only pack I saw on Dawson's site was for a smaller rod that were out of stock, and I'm not sure Dawson will get back to me before they shut down for the 4th of July.

Regardless, if you get a chance to shoot this gun, just do it. If the price didn't put me in the poor house, feeding this thing will because after 600 rounds, I was still feeling good and wanted to go more. I really want to see what this gun would do to .40s and .45s, but the .45 was discontinued for lack of sales and I don't think they ever made a .40.

Either way, I'm still stoked and can't wait to get back to the range.

From the section of the rail that I can see it's dry as a bone. Slop some quality lube in there and have at it.

What kind of ammo were you using?

Recoil spring weight depends on what you are using for ammo.
With the comp you will want to run around 1300FPS.

Bob