I'm reviving this thread because I recently purchased a 351C as a practice gun for my wife. She normally carries a Smith 640 that I had Dave at D&L Sports fit with a set of custom night sights. The problem is she has a compressed disc in her neck that for some odd reason causes arm/shoulder pain if she does much shooting with any sort of recoil. She can get away with 20-30 shots of mild .38Spl, but that's about it. She carries the gun with .357 full power loads, and she shoots them just fine, but we were looking for a way to get her more training rounds without aggravating her arm/shoulder.

The plan almost worked because the 351C has enough recoil to know you're shooting something, but doesn't seem to bother her arm/shoulder. Problem is, the trigger pull is so heavy she literally can't get through a whole cylinder with stopping for a rest (she's very petite at just under 5'2" and like 110lbs). I did a quick test and it was something like 16lbs.

So, I'm off to a revolver specialist (Magna Port here in Michigan) to play with some springs to see if we can get it more manageable for her.

The one thing I wanted to point out that is something of a dirty little secret about most gun spring manufacturers including Wolf....there is very little quality control on spring weights. They take X diameter wire, made of Y kind of steel alloy, heat treat it following Z protocol, and label that a particular weight, i.e. 14lbs. They don't test the springs to make sure they fall within the correct range. I learned this a while back and built a spring tester to confirm it, and sure enough, take a couple of springs that were sold as the same weight, and they vary considerably...as in several pounds plus or minus.

I suspect the "14lb" spring Monad71 put in the first time was likely several pounds heavier, and that caused the increase in trigger pull over factory. I wish I had seen this thread at the time...would have been interesting to see if he could test it and compare (a tester only requires some nuts, bolts, washers and a fish weighing scale).

If anybody has a 1911, AR-15, Glock, Beretta (and some S&Ws) in their safe, just FYI, but Sprinco springs (not the recoil reducer gadget) are actually tested, and marked for weight and only cost a couple of bucks more than Wolf, ISMI, etc. They also offer moly treated and cryo stress relieved options. I've been running them for 7-8 years now and they've been perfect at the high round counts I go through (USPSA shooter). These better springs are in their Tactical Springs section (I have no affiliation with them).

I'll report back what we find out on the 351C today.

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