Recent content by mech8691

Thank you for putting the work you did I to gathering the data for some insight into this. If it helps, I purchased the echelon with an intention for duty use, maybe some local competition use. I do understand that the heat issue would mostly be a problem during training and, God forbid, I...

I fired it again today. Only put 37 rounds through it. The front half of the slide was hot enough I couldn't hold it for more than a few seconds.

Sorry for my delay in response. I forgot to check it and wasn't getting notices that there was responses. It won't be in vein.

I fired 40 rounds in a slow fire over approx 5-10 min. I then mag dumped 20 rounds.

Anyone else with an echelon notice the slide gets really hot, really fast. I took my new echelon out to the range and couldn't touch the slide after 60 rounds. I fired 60 rounds out of my glock at the same rate of fire as the echelon, while the echelon was cooling. I could grab the glock slide...