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Offline bversteegh

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What wears out on a Shadow under heavy use?
« on: January 07, 2020, 02:04:47 PM »
I am a very active competitive shooter - I'm shooting around 1500 rounds per month through my Cajunized Shadow.  Besides springs and the slide stop - are there any other parts I need to be worried about and replace occasionally with this level of use?  I keep a spare recoil spring, trigger spring, and firing pin spring and slide stop in my range bag.  I replace the recoil spring every 10K rounds - what else should I be doing?

Offline George16

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Re: What wears out on a Shadow under heavy use?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2020, 03:33:34 PM »
That’s pretty much about it.

Offline Luvdog

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Re: What wears out on a Shadow under heavy use?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2020, 08:10:49 PM »
My savings account balance gets worn out

Offline 2morechains

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Re: What wears out on a Shadow under heavy use?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2020, 10:07:33 PM »
The only thing I would add is an extractor spring.  I had one get worn out and started causing the occasional failure to extract.  Turns out the extractor spring was compressed to half the length of a new one.   

Offline bversteegh

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Re: What wears out on a Shadow under heavy use?
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2020, 01:00:00 PM »
Thanks. I haven’t even looked at the extractor spring - that would really screw up a match if started getting failures to eject.


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