3050 Rounds. 50 Rounds Gold Saber, 100 Rounds Geco, 50 Rounds Wilson 200 grain
Broke the 3000 round mark today!
When I got to the range, I switched out the recoil spring for one of the new flat-springs. Interestingly, it appears to be a good deal shorter than a standard spring. In the following picture the spring in the bag is a new 17 pound spring, the spring in the middle is the new flat spring and the spring with the guide rod attached is the ~3000 round old factory 17 pound spring.

Here is a picture of the new guide rod. Notice that it is beveled (a nice touch). Also, at the base of the rod it steps down. This made installing the Shok-buff more difficult (just a bit) but it is held solidly in place.

Anyway, after it was installed I started some dot drills. It felt no different than the factory spring (which, I suppose it shouldn't). About 3 mags in I had a failure to feed with a FMJ 230 grain Geco on the last round with mag #1. This was while doing transitions so I don't think it had anything to do with grip, etc. I made note and moved on. I ran a total of 100 rounds of GECO, 50 Rounds of Wilson lead 200 grain and 50 rounds of Golden Saber without further incident. I basically chalked it up to either (1) settling in of the new spring/buffer, (2) El-cheapo Geco ammo or (3) possibly mag #1 is getting tired. Either way, it didn't crop up again.
I ran (50) rounds doing Dot drills, (50) rounds doing FAST drills, (50) Rounds doing Hackathorn drills and (50) rounds doing my "Ruby" drill which is 2 into a paper plate, transition 2 in another paper plate 5 foot away, reload and one shot. Basically, it is a 5 round drill which gets in a fast draw, a follow up shot, a transition to a second target, a follow up shot, a slide lock reload and another shot. Lots of good stuff for 5 rounds.
Dot drills are interesting, I can shoot them clean (except support hand 5, just can't do it!) with my Wilson every time. I tried to follow it up with my G19 and while I did decent work, it was nothing like the CQB. That trigger!! Oh so sweet.
If you aren't armed when you take a dump in your own home then your opinion on what is a practical daily carry weapon isn't interesting to me.
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