Recent content by Txrevolvernerd

Awesome info, thank you both. I do a lot of tinkering with my various guns but this one seemed like something above my skill level. Never had a pin that I just couldn’t get out if I tried, so I figure I’ll just do this the right way and avoid mucking things up. And while I’m at it get the slide...

I bought a used 915 slide off of eBay and my plan is to have it cerakoted black to make my 5906 a two tone. I stripped the safety decocker/striker down and removed the sights with my pusher(rusted sights were a pain) but am stuck on the extractor, it will not budge despite kroil, wd40 etc. I...

I recently purchased a 459 online and when I took it out to shoot it functioned fine but the double action trigger pull was atrocious. I have both a 5904 and a 5906 that have perfectly normal DA trigger pulls/weights so it’s not that I’m not used to DA, it really is extremely heavy and with a...

Yeah I feel ya. Ever since Covid it seems like people mark stuff up at shows to ridiculous prices and do the ol “I know what I got Sonny” when you try and haggle. I’m in my 30s and have been shooting for about 15 years and it’s gotten harder and harder to find deals the last few years, even on...

That may be what I do if I keep seeing it happen. I’m installing the new recoil spring in it today after work and greasing the rails, then I am going to send another 100 rounds through it tomorrow when I go to test out my 5906 that came in the other day. If I see more shaving I definitely have a...

Good to hear that it doesn’t seem to be too extreme as far as the wear goes. I found my gun grease so it’ll be getting pampered from here on out. Plus my 5906 I won on GB came in yesterday and that’ll be getting the lions share of the round count between the two. I popped the slide off the 5906...

Definitely appreciate all the advice from everyone here, it’s helpful when I get into new platforms to learn what works and what doesn’t for that particular gun. All of mine are for shooting, no collectors pieces to be had, so I try and maintain as well as possible.

I’m just hoping it has plenty of rounds left in it despite the wear and isn’t just totally shot out. It looks great on the outside, they don’t do slide rail pics when you buy them at auction unfortunately.

They are about the same as the dustcover rail and front rail by the takedown pin. Maybe a little less worn actually. Hopefully it’s not to the point of affecting anything if I keep her greased from now on. I typically clean all of mine after shooting(even my Glonks lol)

Got some pictures, couldn’t get any of the shavings to show up, they are too small and can’t focus the camera well enough.

When I get off work and back to the house I will pop the slide off and get some good close pics of the lugs and rails. Also I’ll see if I can scare up a few more of the shavings out of them too with a qtip. Based on what I’ve read here on the forum it could have gotten gouged over the years if...

The shavings all seemed to come out of the slide rails/frame rail. I had sprayed the whole stripped gun down with birchwood Casey to deep clean and ran a q-tip inside the slide rail and it was coming out black(extremely dirty on arrival) with tiny flecks of silver. Did the same clean after...

Yeah hopefully it’s not on its original recoil spring and they at least did some upkeep over the years. It’s a pretty clean gun and shot great so I’d like to give her a makeover and keep her shooting for years to come.

Good deal, I will have to get some gun grease ordered. I used to have a tube of twb25 but idk where it got stashed. Thanks for the info.