https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....83#post1117183Originally Posted by TC215
https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....83#post1117183
3/15/2016
Did you go with the 15# recoil spring for how it feels or for reliability?
Curious how reliable Rolands are with the G19's 18# factory recoil spring.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
Factory spring is over spring for the comp but it works.
15 is too much too imo.
It’s been 100% with all springs - including the 4lb striker spring that Everyone says won’t poke a hole in a kleenex
My G19 KKM barrel and comp ran like a raped ape in my Gen 3 and Gen 4 G19 with OEM springs. Dropped into two friends Gen 4 G19s that both had a Zev "kit" and they'd both get to choking but I don't know which of the springs involved may have been at fault.
So I headed to my Gabe White class planning to use said Gen 4 G19 and I thought all was well (all OEM springs). The day prior I went out for one more practice before the class and I started pushing my speed and commenced to fouling a few grips during the draw and getting some web of my dominant hand slide bit and it induced malf's whereas the stock guns never malfed for me when the same thing happened.
Then at the start of the class during the first warm up, I fookin' did the same thing (fouled grip) and got the same tissue induced malf and freaked the hell out. I then switched to a stock RTF2 G19 for peace of mind in the class. Tore my dominant hand palm up something fierce as the round count climbed too but oh well.
YMMV.
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
I'd think that under 15# would be on the edge of having return to battery issues when dirty (and frame battering with +P), same with light striker springs and light primer hits when the channel gets gunked up (I'm lazy when it comes to cleaning so its might just be a concern for gun slobs like me).
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
Just curious how reliable are comped Glocks when using defensive +p ammo and stock springs?
I would think that’s were a setup like a Roland special would shine.
100%.
Carry ammo is speer 124+ p
My Gen5 w/KKM Roland has run 4K flawlessly so far with the factory recoil spring.
Speer GD 124 +P runs like a dream out of my Roland.
I can't even tell the difference in recoil compared to normal practice loads.
I accidently went through two mags of GD one morning during warm up for a Paul Howe class last November.
Actually, listening to the discussion where the developer of the gun was talking about the “why”, it started as a joke but he found a lot of functionality from the comp as he was teaching mainly closed enrollment classes and found himself shooting thousands of rounds of duty ammo. I think he specifically mentioned 147 Ranger T +P.
Seems to depend on the comp for ball but I’m not sure about +P. The reliability with stock springs is one reason I chose KKM. I normally shoot 124 gr lawman to match my 124 gr +P GD carry ammo. I definitely notice a difference between the two but less so than without a comp.
I started having fairly consistent malfunctions after the recoil spring had several thousand rounds on it, swapped in a new one and have been good ever since.
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