Recent content by dylanrutan

I recently upgraded my Prodigy with an ignition kit and a mainspring housing kit, and wanted to share my experience for anyone considering a similar setup. For the ignition kit, I spec’d it with a blued solid hammer, Prodigy short sear, ball head disconnector, Colt sear spring, stainless hammer...

I don’t rotate the rounds anymore. Instead every couple weeks or so I take my digital calipers and check OAL of the round I have been chambering. As long as it’s the same as ammo I have sitting in the box of federal HST, I know I’m good. The biggest concern with repeatedly chambering the same...

Blue box production model M45A1. Crazy to think the era of the 1911s service is over Picked up my brand new Colt M45A1 today from my local FFL and took it straight to the range. I brought 400 rounds of Winchester White Box 230gr FMJ and grabbed four Wilson Combat 47D 8-round mags while I was...

The Springfield Prodigy is sitting at about 2,500 rounds now, so I figured I’d share an update along with some recent parts changes. EGW Slide Stop Impressions I recently installed the EGW slide stop and I’ve got to say, I’m really digging it. It’s noticeably easier to get a hold of with my...

that’s a solid idea, I’ll probably do that to all my duramags. I went ahead and ordered the Dawson plate to replace that plate I broke. I also ordered a couple atlas mags, I’ll make those my carry mags, and use the three oem duramags as training mags.

While shooting today at my local outdoor range I cracked the corner of the polymer basepad on an oem 17rd duramag for my prodigy without initially realizing it. Later that crack allowed the basepad to fly off entirely when I inserted a fully loaded mag into the gun. This hilariously emptied the...

I ordered an M45A1 from guns.com and some Wilson ETM mags for it

Recently had my prodigy AOS A18B plate come loose during a 600 round range session and I contacted SA customer support to ask what their official recommended procedure for plate mounting was. For reference I had been degreasing with isopropyl alcohol, applying Vibratite VC3 with proper cure...

Just recently bought the EGW guide rod because Dawson lists on the product page to not use the 4.25 length prodigy guide rod on the 4.25 comp model. I also called Dawson to verify that and they confirmed to not use it on the comp model. They said it has different dimensions than the standard model.