I wish I started this earlier, but I didn’t know I was going to go this far. Sometimes one or two mods turns into an ongoing project. I don’t have pictures of everything I did, but I can point out some mods that make the CS9 even better. First of all let me say that I have shot many of the best pistols on the market, and nothing beats the CS9 for me on a deep concealment level. This thing is 100% reliable, accurate, small (even smaller with some mods, but we’ll discuss that later), light while having steel slide w alloy frame, 7+1 9mm, and sporting DA/SA with a decocker! Mine also came with factory night sights (late production stainless model) Checked all my boxes in order to retire my S&W 638 from duty. Not that I can ever leave well enough alone...
Some things to gripe about:
1) Trigger pulls are rough. DA over 12lb, SA around 7-8lb.
2) Decocker sticks out pretty far off the slide, and mine came with ambi so that made it too much for me to live with
3) Tough to insert mags. Mags will not drop free.
4) Hogue factory grip is too girthy for concealed carry
5. Can’t reach the slide stop without adjusting grip (semi-stubby thumbs, but I’d wager it’s a stretch for most people), so that it makes much more sense not to use it, and just slingshot the slide
Here are pictures of the gun in the condition I purchased it in. I got it at a pawn shop with 2 mags for $425, case not included. Consider the cost and methods used to manufacture this gun. It’s an incredible value, just like most third gens
I’ll start with the frame. I polished it with some tender loving care. I use a combination of sandpaper from 400-1000 grit, small files of various sizes to wrap the sandpaper around to fit into tight spaces, 0000 steel wool, cutips, and dremel polishing tips with Flitz.
I lightly sanded the rails, careful not to remove too much metal. Just flip it upside down and make even strokes against sandpaper placed on a flat surface. I polished the pin holes, frame around the trigger, inside where the trigger bar rides, the entire inside surface wherever the magazine contacts (made my mags “drop-free, seriously the mags just glide), inside the hole where the trigger return spring is held captive, the notch that makes contact with the recoil spring guide and “nipple”, where the sear contacts the frame, where the hammer and levers contacts the frame, and where the disconnector lives. Some photos of this below
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Some things to gripe about:
1) Trigger pulls are rough. DA over 12lb, SA around 7-8lb.
2) Decocker sticks out pretty far off the slide, and mine came with ambi so that made it too much for me to live with
3) Tough to insert mags. Mags will not drop free.
4) Hogue factory grip is too girthy for concealed carry
5. Can’t reach the slide stop without adjusting grip (semi-stubby thumbs, but I’d wager it’s a stretch for most people), so that it makes much more sense not to use it, and just slingshot the slide
Here are pictures of the gun in the condition I purchased it in. I got it at a pawn shop with 2 mags for $425, case not included. Consider the cost and methods used to manufacture this gun. It’s an incredible value, just like most third gens
I’ll start with the frame. I polished it with some tender loving care. I use a combination of sandpaper from 400-1000 grit, small files of various sizes to wrap the sandpaper around to fit into tight spaces, 0000 steel wool, cutips, and dremel polishing tips with Flitz.
I lightly sanded the rails, careful not to remove too much metal. Just flip it upside down and make even strokes against sandpaper placed on a flat surface. I polished the pin holes, frame around the trigger, inside where the trigger bar rides, the entire inside surface wherever the magazine contacts (made my mags “drop-free, seriously the mags just glide), inside the hole where the trigger return spring is held captive, the notch that makes contact with the recoil spring guide and “nipple”, where the sear contacts the frame, where the hammer and levers contacts the frame, and where the disconnector lives. Some photos of this below
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