Ruger LC9 Redux

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Attached is a photo of my wife's Ruger LC9. Of course there are modifications I installed:

1) Hogue Jr handall with finger hump ground down.
2) RTK trigger with pre and overtravel adjustments which allows you to adjust from outside the trigger without disassembly each time to adjust.
3) Galloway Precision trigger bar and hammer work
4) 20lb recoil spring set
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The trigger is now a short crisp 5.5lbs. Range test tomorrow.
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I got seconds!

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Interesting range time with the LCP with the Galloway Precision trigger bar and hammer mods, as well as the RTK trigger. I had installed the heavier dual 15lb recoils spring, not 20lb like I erroneously posted earlier. I loaded the LC9 with 115 Std Velocity Critical Defense. The gun handled nearly like a short barrelled K-frame shooting 38 special. It was really cool and I had FIST shoot it too.

I shot a bunch of varied 115 FMJ ammo too, what a pleasant small gun to shoot with nice trigger control. Now the bad news. I was so stoked with the mods on the LC9 I loaded it with what I like to carry in my Glocks or Sig, CorBon 115+P JHPs. Crap.....! After 3 or 4 shots the trigger wouldn't reset. That ended a lot of premature joy.

Took the gun home and dismantled it thinking the high octane Corbons may have broke something. The trigger bar spring had slipped under the trigger bar, which was a quick fix. Why though did it slip? The only thing I can figure out is that the Corbon caused the frame to flex so much that the trigger bar spring was allowed enough room to slide beneath the bar as the bar does not have a groove for the spring to ride in but is sandwiched between the frame and the chassis sliding along the trigger bar. Nothing that was done to the gun as a mod failed. I now need to run a couple of hundred rounds through the thing using std velocity loads to prove to me that the gun will work as a SYA gun for me or my wife. I'll reserve the +P Corbons to more substantial pistols.