A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who suggested to check the main spring. I thought I had it screwed in as tightly as it would go, but after messing with the angle the mainspring was sitting at and screwing it back in tightly the problem had now completely disappeared.

It has been over 24 hours of messing with this gun, and I will say I've learned a lot more than I knew before.

I am mad and glad that the same time that it ended up being that simple.

You all are geniuses, and my truest thanks to you for chiming in and helping me with this! I almost drove 2 hours each way tomorrow to take it to a gunsmith to get a hands on opinion. It's so much nicer to just fix it right here at home and save the gas and money.