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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain.  |
Looking at some Tungsten guide rods and the Grayguns guide rod. I know the tungsten adds weight, but what other functions are there to a new guide rod? Thanks, NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | ||
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| SIG-Sauer Anthropologist |
It is a barrel weight. In one-handed precision shooting, the front sight remains more stable. However, it takes more time for it to settle. | |||
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I run the gray guns FAT stainless guide rods on all my alloy framed guns to reduce muzzle flip. I cant say how much reduction there is but it definitely feels more controlled when firing. Dave _________________________ Those that say it can’t be done should not interrupt the people doing it!!! | |||
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| Purveyor of Death and Destruction  |
Is this for a range toy or for personal defense? The reason I ask is because tungsten is brittle and can shatter. I wouldn't recommend using one in a defensive pistol. | |||
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| Member |
The real answer is “not much”. Seriously. Unless you need to shave fractions of a second off your times replacing this will be an exercise in futility. | |||
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| Freethinker |
The reason I like the Grayguns rod for my full size 9mm P320 is that it replaces the expensive and proprietary captive recoil spring system with a 1911 type spring. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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| Member |
Ok, that is a good reason in my book. In fact, I did the same thing with my Gen4 Glock19. Captive spring gone, rod with normal spring and the little doohickey insert in the slide hole. Still my basic point stands. You aren't going to get much if any noticeable difference and I lean to you won't get any. | |||
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| Freethinker |
I can’t tell any difference among solid steel and other offerings, and that included solid steel, hollow steel, and plastic rods in SIG Classic line pistols. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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^^^^^^^^ This. Rom 13:4 If you do evil, be afraid. For he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain. |
Range toy, USPSA and Steel, training...etc. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain. |
The X5 already has a 1911 style spring, so I guess that's another reason to pass. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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