Solution is smaller comp, or lighter recoil spring. The Strike Industries micro carry comp circle works. Any extra weight you add, or something that reduces the slide velocity, is going to affect cycling. More recoil reduction, less slide velocity, more chance for problems on stock parts.
If you’re going micro comp, go Strike Industries. It’s clockable so it only blasts up and to the sides, instead of all around. Mine still cycled flawlessly despite using some weak Winchester white box ammo. I do notice the casings not going as far sometimes, and they occasionally ejector forward, but I also have an optic.
Holsters, TREX Ironside works as it’s completely open bottom. I modified a Safariland to work with comps and longer guns, and cut down a T1C Axis Slim. A lot of “threaded barrel” options on holster will fit the gun ONLY with the threaded barrel, but nothing on said barrel.
Despite some’s beliefs, you can get reliable comps, and they aren’t for competition only. Comp=compensator. Take every advantage you can get.
Any luck with a fix? I have a few compensators installed on my Glocks and Sigs, and my mistake was installing it incorrectly. I over-tightened it; i.e., continuing to turn the comp clockwise to time it and align it up with the slide. I had nothing but cycling issues. I reinstalled it again, but making sure to back it off (turning it counter-clockwise) once making contact with the slide. This allowed enough clearance for the slide to cycle freely and the comp works beautifully.
I did have another comp on my P365X that required a slight enlargement of the hole where the guide rod would enter when cycling. It would come into contact with the side of the hole during cycling, occasionally locking the slide back without engaging the slide catch. I enlarged the hole slightly to allow clearance and it works great! I have put at least 1000 rounds through all my pistols with comps and shooting is so much more enjoyable due to recoil management and keeping zero when firing double-taps.
I finally ordered a PSA Dagger Full Size and will add the Herrington Arms 2-port compensator to it, along with the Streamlight TLR-1 HL tactical light. I also want to drop in a new trigger, but I am reading not-so-great things about the Timney Alpha Trigger. This kinda sucks because I love it in my Glock 19 Gen 5. I am actually trying to replicate my Glock 19 setup, but in a cheap-clone G45 MOS version. I will make sure to post once I get the pistol and a few hundred rounds through with my new setup.
What is it doing exactly? Short cycling and not ejecting properly, try going lighter. Don’t know PSA weight but factory Gen3 19 spring from what I can tell is 16 pounds. Also when using a comp, especially larger ones, they will be more effective AND reliable with hotter ammo. Too big/heavy a comp + weak range ammo is going to have problems.
Since you likely have a non captured, or at least replaceable spring now, buy a few different weights and try them out. Once you find which works for whatever ammo you use, get spares.
If it’s not pushing the round hard enough to chamber then you’ve gone too light or have some friction somewhere. Too heavy a device hanging off the barrel can cause that too.
That completely depends on the malfunction, but most people have with a comp or brake is it not cycling far enough back. Meaning it’s too much spring for the comp/ammo used.
Overspringing also causes that muzzle bob/bouncing you see in slow-mo, making target acquisition and shooting at speed a little more difficult.
I’ve heard and seen the complete opposite, countless times. You can tell just by seeing how the gun works. Heavier spring if it’s not pushing rounds in the chamber. Same deal you have with buffer weight on an AR. Too heavy and it won’t lock back or cycle completely back to pick a round up.
My own Dagger with the red dot and the micro comp on it even needs a weaker spring with whitebox ammo. It is noticeably slow on the recoil, and doesn’t eject properly sometimes because the slide isn’t coming BACK fast/far enough. If you want to buy me a heavier spring I’d love to confirm that it doesn’t fix that problem at all. It doesn’t even pick the next round up at times. Take the comp off and it works fine. Now if it was picking up the round but not chambering completely, you’d be right to use a heavier spring. Except that’s not what most comp users have a problem with, because of just what a comp does on a gun. It’s majority of the time, slowing the slide’s rearward movement down.
When you get an old worn out recoil spring, you notice failures to feed, and feel the gun recoiling heavier too. So you put a new/heavier/not worn out spring in it.
Explaining the reasoning, mechanically, behind why that works would go a long way. Cause you are one of the few on the internet pushing for more spring weight with compensators, known to slow down slide movement rearward. An operation which is fundamentally required and part of the unlocking and cycling process on a Browning action. Hence why suppressor boosters are a thing. As well as lightened slides on race guns with comps.
