What’s been going on?
I ordered a new OEM recoil spring for the Glock 22. In fact, I ordered two of them. I still haven’t contacted EFK Dragon Fire regarding the failed Glock 22 recoil spring that I bought last year. Well, I contacted them via e-mail but they never responded. I can contact them via phone but I feel if they’re ignoring their emails, I may as well review the spring in a negative light and write off the failure and not do business with them in the future.
How’s the Glock 22 with the new OEM spring? It’s good enough, although the gun’s recoil is still quite strong. I took it to the range, thinking the high grain would dampen the recoil some. Nope, it’s not enough IMO. The high recoil of this handgun is why I bought the EFK Dragon Fire spring in the first place. I think the better route would be for me to get a Gen 4 Glock 22…the double spring is almost certainly going to handle the recoil of .40 Cal better than the Gen 2’s single spring, but I only bought the G22 because it was cheap and because I could use the RIA 22TCM9R convert kit with the G22 frame.
As well, the G22 sights aren’t helping me…the tritium vials are dark so the sights are difficult to use. I do not really want to spend huge amounts of money on this particular handgun.
Now, even though I shot the G22 and noticed the recoil wasn’t what I’d like it to be, I appear to be a bit more accurate with the gun now with the new OEM recoil spring. That’s something, at least, but the recoil was enough to where I only shot 30 rounds from the gun (2 mags). I brought 180-grain Remington green/white box ammo. There were no failures.
I then bought 150 rounds of 115-grain Wolf steel-cased ammo from my Gen 4 Glock 19. There were no failures. The gun now has 310 rounds through it. I’m not used to it. It has recoil that I’m not used to, probably due to the fact that I’ve been carrying and shooting metal-framed handguns the past 2-3 years. I’ve been thinking on carrying this particular gun but will need lots of time shooting it before I’m comfortable with the shooting characteristics. Plus, I want to get 15-round OEM mags for the gun (it came with 10-round OEM mags). We’ll see.
I said I’ve been thinking on carrying the G19. Why? Because I also shot my current carry gun (I only carry one firearm at a time), the Bersa Thunder 380 Plus, and I’m still experiencing sharp biting on the web of my strong hand. I shot 100 rounds of Speer Lawman 95-grain FMJ this time around. I shot this same ammo the last two times I shot the Bersa. My range notes say that I noticed sharp bites in May 2017 as well. When I shot the gun prior to this last range visit (Oct 2017), I didn’t noticed the sharp biting and I shot that same ammo. I’m tiring of the biting, so it may be time to train on a different handgun.
I can still carry my Beretta PX4 Storm, but it is rather thick…that’s the only turn-off in carrying that handgun. I can also carry the Sig SP2022 but it’s not a small gun either (roughly the same size and thickness as my PX4). I’ve the XD Mod 2 that I can start carrying again, or even the Grand Power P11 (once I have Eagle Imports investigate the fails to return to battery).
Lastly, I’m having an issue with arthritis in my fingers and it sometimes makes shooting uncomfortable. This really sucks because there’s no real way to mitigate shooting complications caused by arthritis, other than to move to low calibers, which I’m not going to do. As well, I carry a .380 and that still causes pain (not in my fingers, but in the webbing between thumb and finger). I may have to just put up with it or medicate myself before a range visit. :/
