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I had I hopes for the Golden City IPSC League this past Saturday.
Got my trustworthy Shadow out of the safe and as always wanted to do a few dry fire runs before going to the range.
Racked the slide and out popped my slide stop…broken.
This was a sign that I should rather just get back in bed.
I have heard the stories of slide stops going on Shadows and had a spare ready. Fitted it and went to the range.
Stage 1…a nice 10 second stage turned into a 30 second nightmare.
Trigger not resetting, hard trigger and no hammer drop!
Off to the safety area to inspect the gun…can’t see anything wrong and everything works as it should with dry fire.
Stage 2…same thing.
Check again and start thinking a piece of the broken slide stop is stuck somewhere.
Stage 3…a bit better but halfway through the stage the same thing happens again. And then the slide does not stay open on an empty mag…
Score is starting to look very bad but there are 5 more stages…I can do this!
10 rounds into Stage 4 I gave up, same thing keeps happening.
Spend the rest of the shoot patching and loading mags for the wife.
Stripped the gun and gave it a proper cleaning…there was a lot of gunk in the trigger area.
All springs are intact, everything looks good. Only difference is that the spare slide stop I fitted is cosmetically different to the original.
But it should still work and should not influence the trigger or am I missing something?
Anyway I hope to get to the range soon to test the gun.
