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Thread: Amazing reduction in perceived recoil with a simple part change - EGW firing pin stop

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    johnny, you could sell me prime farmland in the everglades!!! after reading all this fine info i went to the safe to look at the stops in my guns. would the semi-custom builders, nighthawk in this case, be installing the beveled stops? from what i can tell looking at them on the slide they look like the picture john posted. the bottom edge looks like it has a radius to it. this of course is the edge towards the back of the slide. am i all set and leave it alone or should i mess it up and tinker with it (i don't mean changing it will mess it up, i mean ME messing it up)?
    "a tired dawg is a happy dawg"

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    Stops

    Quote Originally Posted by dr2e
    johnny, you could sell me prime farmland in the everglades!!! after reading all this fine info i went to the safe to look at the stops in my guns. would the semi-custom builders, nighthawk in this case, be installing the beveled stops? from what i can tell looking at them on the slide they look like the picture john posted. the bottom edge looks like it has a radius to it. this of course is the edge towards the back of the slide. am i all set and leave it alone or should i mess it up and tinker with it (i don't mean changing it will mess it up, i mean ME messing it up)?
    They very well could be installing beveled stops or stops with the small radius.
    Probably beveled, since it's more cost-effective and less time consuming that way. Seems that after a few of the custom smiths jumped on it with their Delta Elites, the others did a little research...or actually saw an old pistol with the original stop...and THEN did some research and/or testing...and decided that it was a worthwhile modification, which is actually a return to original design specs. That small, seemingly insignifigant change makes for a lot of difference in the function of the gun.

    And...maybe they're starting to realize that ol' John Moses really DID know a lotta stuff about his pistol.

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    Another fantastic mod from tuner!!! With the light target loads I normally run chould this cause a FTF or failure to hold open on an empty mag? Following the instructions I chould slowly increase the radius if the above did appear. Just answerd my own question..... Way to go Tuner! Mike.

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    re:

    Quote Originally Posted by mike h. buness
    Another fantastic mod from tuner!!! With the light target loads I normally run chould this cause a FTF or failure to hold open on an empty mag? Following the instructions I chould slowly increase the radius if the above did appear. Just answerd my own question..... Way to go Tuner! Mike.
    If your light loads are run in a gun with standard spring rates...recoil and mainspring...Very possible, depending on how light the ammo is. I haven't had any trouble with 200-grain/800fps in 5-inch guns, but the brass
    kinda dribbles out of the port and piles up beside my right foot.

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    here is fp stop out of nhc talon II. i guess you can call this "radiused" no?
    sorry for bad quality. need to invest in photography lessons, read manual or tripod.
    "a tired dawg is a happy dawg"

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    Dr2E, what happened to that picture?
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    john, other than i stink with this camera i couldn't tell ya. like in my apology i either need to read the manual or take some lessons from my brother. he's the one who can take photos. for some reason the few that i took just wouldn't focus clearly. i posted the "best" of the lot.
    "a tired dawg is a happy dawg"

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    OK, I can see it now. No this is the standard way of beveling the firing pin stop. This is not the one Johnny recommends and the one I showed in this thread.
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    oh, now i see looking back at your picture. you show a standard like i am showing. an improved fp stop has less taken off. is that correct? oboy, i get to patronize another one of our vendors! mo' money, mo' money.........
    "a tired dawg is a happy dawg"

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    Picture

    dr2e Quote:

    >I guess you can call this "radiused" no?<
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    Yes. That's the now-standard 7/32nds radius.

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