Spartan IV and reverse plug...FMITA

Hitzy

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Well I always wanted a NICE commander length 1911, and bit the bullet with one of these. Got a 9mm Nork Gov...meh, never did it for me....
Fit and finish is great, nice and tight, only plastic is the MSH and trigger, priced right as well.....but what in the #### kind of setup is that reverse plug bull####....HOLY HELL it was a dangerous affair stripping that thing down.

Instructions tell you to make a tool by "bending a paperclip" to stick in the hole of the guiderod that you can see once you compress the spring with your thumb...only problem is it take both thumbs to compress the ####ing spring enough to get the "tool" in that little hole. Finally get it out and you have to leave it "captive" like that for the re-assembly....only thing holding a 18lb spring is 1/2mm of paperclip....so I put the ####ing thing in the safe while I was cleaning the rest of the gun as I couldn't help but think it's gonna grenade on me at anytime and blow one of my eyes out....#### that.

Then on reassembly, I'm thinking piece of cake, got the slide all back together, start pulling it back to line up the link pin, slide's jammed...only goes one way...back, spring is compressed but NO tension as something is jammed all up in there. So I check my tool, nope, didn't break that 1/2mm off in the guiderod, must be something else. Hard to tell but it seems like the link is the problem....start the slide stop in and bam, slide lets go...I was ready for that though, but could have been a rocket across the floor.

I'll get to shoot it Monday and see if it was worth it...and if that ####ing reverse plug is all it's suppose to be :)
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Needs that 90 degree bend I think? This ####### at STI tries to make it look easy...but you can see he has some problems too :)
Nice, at the end of the vid, shows how to do it without having to compress the spring with your thumbs....would have been cool to put that in the ####ing instructions maybe...lol.
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Well, it's a winner....its a very tight gun and I wasn't sure how it was gonna run, but no issues at all. Nice tight groups with some 200gr tc-tmj I had loaded pretty hot, fair bit of muzzle flash with this load. Other load I tried was a lighter load with 230gr ball, it didn't shoot as well for me, which is fine cuz I have 700 rounds of the hot stuff :)
Shoots nice, handles really well, less felt recoil then I was expecting. Glad I picked this one up....reverse plug and all :)
 
Nice gun Hitzy. Noob question...What benefit is the full length guide rod to the regular G.I. plug and spring?

With this gun, there is no barrel bushing, it has a bull barrel so the reverse plug setup is a must....no other options.
For a standard 5" setup, it keeps the spring straighter, as well as keeping the slide a little tighter for shot to shot consistency.
 
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