Finally

[ancient-one]

After two ten day stretches of leaving the slide open the spring is beginning to lose a little tension. My grandson is going to take me and my daughter to the range this week and if so, it will get a hundred or so rounds run through it.
I may get the best of that hard to rack slide yet.

 

[Dave Lively]

If you ever use +P carry ammo be sure to try some of it when you go shooting. Semi-auto pistols have heavy recoil springs because that is the only way to get good reliability with heavy loads in light guns. I would expect the gun to still work fine with a slightly lighter spring but if you weaken it too much expect malfunctions, particularly with strong ammo.

 

[ScaryWoody]

Make sure when you do rack the slide you use proper form. I see a lot of people trying to use muscle at odd angles.

 

[Gamecock]

Compressing the spring then leaving it is not the way to weaken it. Working it is the way to weaken it.

 

[Wolfman-Iraq]

Compressing the spring then leaving it is not the way to weaken it. Working it is the way to weaken it.

The above it correct.....it's the compressing and extending a spring that wears out a spring, not the having it compressed or extended...

 

[Rastoff]

I suspect that the spring is not getting weaker, you're becoming more familiar with racking the slide and strengthening muscles you don't normally use. Therefore, it seems lighter when in fact it's just getting easier through experience.

 

[touchoneoff]

After two ten day stretches of leaving the slide open the spring is beginning to lose a little tension. My grandson is going to take me and my daughter to the range this week and if so, it will get a hundred or so rounds run through it.
I may get the best of that hard to rack slide yet.

Well, shooting it is about the best way I know of, of getting that spring to soften up a bit. Hope it all works out well.