I was wondering if anyone has tried out the Galloway Precision G43 Steel Spring Guide Rod Assemblies yet, I know they have a +10% increased spring and a -10% decrease spring option for the G43? And if so what's your take on them, have they functioned great or caused issues?
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I was wondering if anyone has tried out the Galloway Precision G43 Steel Spring Guide Rod Assemblies yet, I know they have a +10% increased spring and a -10% decrease spring option for the G43? And if so what's your take on them, have they functioned great or caused issues?
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Theres no problem really with the factory guide rod, I just prefer steel over plastic when it comes to guide rods in all my guns, I have had plastic guide rods bend/warp/break on me in the past and never had a steel one ever do that.
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I've yet to see a Glock guide rod break. Which model did you experience the broken guide rod?
I've had them warp but still function, had about 18k rounds through them.
Ps with a name of G43perfection I would expect using stock parts?
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There are videos of a G18 and G19 melting the guide rod after firing 8 or 9 hundred rounds just as fast as they could stuff mags in them, but I doubt you'll ever see it happen under any sort of realistic scenario. BTW, the guns still ran with the melted guide rods.
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Gen 3 Glock 21 cracked, probably was defective, but none the less steel never has done any of these things on me just saying, and I have had some others warp/deform and start to cause issues. The guide rod is the only thing I usually ever touch on a Glock, I leave everything else alone.
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That would be my question. A lighter recoil spring can help limpwristing issues and a heavier one might be good if you shoot a lot of extra-hot ammo, but I've never seen a new guide rod improve anything in a Glock that was functioning correctly already.
I've done a lot of Glock shooting with a lot of Glocks. over the past 26-27 years, alongside LOT of other Glock shooters who shot a lot of rounds in IDPA, GSSF, USPSA, etc. Never once seen that on a single one.
My brother once took a box full of loaded magazines and, along with another guy tried to fire a police-issued Glock 35 so fast and long it would break down. They managed to get it so hot the guide rod started to melt and warp, but it still functioned and was fine when it cooled down. Unless you have several hundred rounds loaded in magazines, that you plan to spray as fast as you can pull the trigger, you probably won't run into that, either.
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If you saw the hours firearms engineers spend in the product development phase, using high speed photography to determine the correct spring rate... you'd understand why they sob and drink when people quickly "upgrade" to a "PLUS TEN PERCENT" spring.
Plus 10% is 10% more better, right? What do the engineers know anyway...
Plus 10% is 10% more better, right? What do the engineers know anyway...
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They know that over-springing the gun makes it more likely to go into battery with bad ammo or crap in the chamber. They aren't too worried about how well the sights return, though.
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In many case you are probably correct, but at least through the Gen3 Glocks, the 9mm models got the exact same recoil springs as the 40 S&W and .357 Sig.
If anything I'd suggest the 9mm Glocks were oversprung.
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So I guess no ones had any experience using the Galloway Precision Steel Spring Guide Rod assemblies without issue or with issues, that's what I was asking? A lot of gun owners and Glock owners change parts out on any gun they own at any given time whether it be a $500-600 Glock's or $1500-2000 1911's, its all personal preference really that's it, if someone has even just one bad experience with a plastic part on any gun and they can get a steel part in place of that said part that would never have had that same issue as its plastic counterpart at any given time whether it be 100 rounds or 10,000 rounds down the tube, a lot of times that's what there going to do is replace it with the steel part or stronger part. But that's not my point here in this post originally, it was a question about a parts function because they are a fairly new aftermarket part for the G43 and they are $35 compared to The Glock Stores $79 Tungston Guide Rods. But just so everyone knows, as of now my Galloway Steel Guide Rod Spring Assembly arrived yesterday and I went to the range today with it and fired 300 rounds with it in the gun with no issues whatsoever, I got the 10% decreased spring (due to that's the one you want if your going to be shooting factory manufactured ammo mainly most of the time not +P or reloads etc..) it actually feels no different than the stock factory spring really during firing, felt recoil feels pretty much the same and racking the slide feels good to chamber the rounds as well, I switched them out back and forth a few times to see if I could tell any difference between them and I could not other than the fact that one is steel and one is thin sheet type metal in places with a plastic rod. For some odd reason I seemed to be able to get back on target easier and seemed a little more accurate with the steel guide rod in the gun, I noticed that the factory guide rod shifted off the barrel easier than the steel guide rod did which to me is not that good of a thing, the steel guide fits just slightly snugger in the gun (not so much as to be a bad thing but a good thing in my opinion). So I'll be keeping the Galloway Steel Guide Rod Spring assembly in my G43 for now and keep the factory one as the back up one as I have done with other guns and Glocks. Thank you everyone for the opinions and posts.
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