To Buff, or No Buff

[easy]

For the pistol buffs, do you buff or don't buff. Or just go in the buff?

Here are some Heitt Red Shock Buffs. The right one is new, the middle at 1K rounds and the one at the left, 2K rounds in my 40.

Thought some of you would like to see what happens to shock buffs after only a few thousand rounds.

 

[okcorral1881]

For the pistol buffs, do you buff or don't buff. Or just go in the buff?

No buffs...but opinions vary alot.

 

[Wendell]

1911 - use of shock buffers
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=217964

 

[BCRider]

I'm new to all this but I've been reading bits and pieces here and there on how semi autos should be tuned. Now other things will also come into play here but if a buffer is being cut to ribbons like that after only a couple of thousand rounds I'd be thinking that my recoil spring may not be up to snuff or that it's tired or that I need a slightly stronger spring so that the slide isn't hitting the buffer with so much force.

 

[BC Mike]

I'm new to all this but I've been reading bits and pieces here and there on how semi autos should be tuned. Now other things will also come into play here but if a buffer is being cut to ribbons like that after only a couple of thousand rounds I'd be thinking that my recoil spring may not be up to snuff or that it's tired or that I need a slightly stronger spring so that the slide isn't hitting the buffer with so much force.

Or maybe not putting a piece of plastic in a place where it's going to get pounded by a piece of metal.

 

[easy]

I'm new to all this but I've been reading bits and pieces here and there on how semi autos should be tuned. Now other things will also come into play here but if a buffer is being cut to ribbons like that after only a couple of thousand rounds I'd be thinking that my recoil spring may not be up to snuff or that it's tired or that I need a slightly stronger spring so that the slide isn't hitting the buffer with so much force.

To put it into better perspective for you, the recoil spring in that gun is 16lbs. The factory standard is 13lb. Using lead handloads flying at 850fps.

That crushed shock buff has little to less than none to do with the spring being weak.

 

[tjhaile]

I'm pretty sure that 16 lbs is the standard spring for 1911s. 13lbs is a reduced spring.

http://gunsprings.com/SemiAuto/ColtNF.html#Colt 1911

At any rate, the buffers are superfluous. Use appropriate springs for the ammo you are shooting and replace them as required.

 

[easy]

It's a Beretta, not a 1911. A Beretta 92/96 factory standard is 13lbs.