Marty, seeing as you have difficulty racking the slide, looks like the SS guide rod is right up your alley. My wife (95 lbs wet) had difficulty racking the slide (even using proper technique) and she can confidently rack it now with the SS guide rod installed (I hadn't even lubed it yet, simply swapped my stock, broken-in RSA for the SS guide rod). I'll report back on recoil\muzzle flip difference once I get back from the range.
My wife also struggled with the slide. Tried the SSGuide Rod with spring, didnt work for the wife.
While this (the single spring design) helps the racking, locking type issues that the weaker handed may experience, we determined that my wifes wrists were not strong enough to back the recoil properly and she went from -0- failures to a 50% failure rate on FTL's or FTF's sooooo back in went the OEM spring that provides more pressure to return the slide to battery.
I WOULD state however that it worked perfectly for me with no problems at all.
All done with 115's and never got far enough to determine muzzle flip etc.
The above statement was made in another forum a few months back. Today we have a couple thou rounds through it and it is much better on racking and the wife no longer has trouble with it. (albeit training has a part to play here) Also taught her to utilize the "shoulder shrug" method instead of her arms and it is much easier for her.
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