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Originally Posted by ILLusion
You can fit up to three shock buffers in for maximum short stroking effect. Increased recoil spring strength will also do this.
You can also do things to lighten the slide, such as milling speed holes in to it and installing super light weight blowback units (The Nine Ball one is the lightest on the market.)
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HA! i'm not the only one who calls them that!!!
You can short stroke pretty much any pistol.
Reason:
- minimize the time the slide spends moving unncessarily...only minimal movement for recoil/chambering is preserved.
Benefits:
- faster shot-to-shot times...pistol is chambered and ready to fire as quickly as possible
- ***subjective???*** I tend to notice that the muzzle doesn't jump so much off target...or at least I'm back on target quickly. Perhaps it's more so that the impulse of the recoil is sharper and counter acted by the slide chambering quicker.
Ways to do it:
1. Short stroke spring - this type of recoil spring has more coils spaced so closely that they will essentially jam and not let the slide recoil past a certain point.
2. Spacer - I machine my own out of a piece of UHMW plastic. Fits just over a the guide rod and is big enough for the recoil spring to seat on.
3. Spacer kits - AS/Illusion sells the kits that are essentially metal washers and rubber washers. It is essentially that the rubber is in between metal plates...since if the recoil spring is in direct contact, the recoil will eventually cause the spring to cut through the rubber.
Have fun!