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Originally Posted by Rastoff
1911s and many other handguns have had non-captured recoil springs for over 100 years and none of them have a problem. The only value to having a captured spring is easy of disassembly.
Once it's in the gun, the "captured" part of the RSA is irrelevant.
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Perhaps a 1911 is not the best analogy, as it was
designed to have a non-captured recoil spring. In that, I mean it's designed to be reassembled with a non-captured spring.
Having been there, done that on a 2.0 Compact that decided to "convert" itself into a non-captured spring, I can tell you it's a stone b1tch to get the RSA back into the gun with the spring half-way off the end of the guide rod. Once it's in, you're good to go, as you said. But I worked seemingly forever to get that spring compressed down, held in place, and then get that little guide rod lined up. Ugh.