Just received Dagger assembled slide only (compact - no barrel or recoil spring). Tried three different brand barrels, none will allow slide forward enough to go into battery. Seems like maybe the chamber cutout on the slide is too small. I had to disassemble slide in lockback position and pull firing pin to get the slide off since trigger will not break out of battery for field strip.
Also, front sight impossible to remove.
Barrels attempted to fit: factory gen 3 Glock 19, Faxon G19 and whatever Combat Armory’s threaded barrels are.
I cannot speak on the barrel issue, however I can speak on the front sight. Providing you have the correct tool to remove the front site lug/screw. Take a small torch lighter and heat up the screw. As soon as you see bubbles coming from the screw, stop and loosen it. It does not need to be red hot, usually going right past touch ability is fine. You can also use a heat gun, just takes longer. I have done this multiple times with ease and no issues
Even drop in barrels will sometimes require hand fitting. But you said no recoil spring and never mentioned putting one on and testing a complete gun. Are you trying to just hand chamber it? Cause it will require a HARD tap to get the extractor over the round anyway. (won’t damage anything on a properly made EXTERNAL extractor despite common belief)
Some lubrication and just playing around at home will clear up a lot of clearance/tolerance problems for sure. Dry fire and rack it a ton, look for weird wear spots. Pics also are helpful as well.
Sidenote, any colored Dagger’s seem to be a lot tighter fitment.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had installed the recoil spring and slide would not close on empty chamber (no mag at all) on any of my barrels. All of these barrels have 500 to 2000+ round counts with another Dagger slide and a factory G19 gen 3 slide.
I have tried dropping the slide hard from slide lock many many times now. Interference appears to be contact at the front of the chamber rectangle on the bbl to the chamber opening on the slide.
I can’t persuade it forward for anything. I’ve had to strip out the firing pin to even get the slide off.
I cannot dryfire since the bbl will not lock up at all.
I’ll get some pictures out tomorrow! Thanks for the good questions.
With the slide and barrel off, are you able to slide a round from the bottom, up under the extractor and into proper alignment with the firing pin hole? All the way out the top too, that should rule out anything being grossly out of spec at least.
Is your Dagger a cerakoted one? They do fit a lot tighter. If there isn’t any obvious spots sticking out you can either dedicate one barrel to that gun specifically, to handfit it, or see what PSA can do for you. I’d urge toward working on the barrel rather than the slide but if the slide does look to have some thick cerakote in that spot, and you can tell for sure, sand some down. My tan (complete) one was tight out of box but a bunch of racking beforehand, then 20 rounds of break in made it stop sticking up. But mine would still go into battery, it wasn’t that bad,
Thanks for your input. This slide is just black. I have one that is FDE so I know what you mean.
I think that if none of my 7ish barrels fit, then it will be appropriate to work on the slide but I do take your meaning (if you have to alter something, alter the less costly part). I’ll bust out the calipers tomorrow to see if something is way off. I’ll also take some pictures for you guys. I’ll also check to see if a round will fit as you stated.
If it’s a black slide having those problems then yeah I reckon it’s likely going to be something PSA has to sort out. I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere on the forum where a black slide (normally) has any fitment issues.
Well, thanks for the help, guys but the slide in question installed perfectly on all four of my frames with every barrel and recoil spring I have. Seriously, not a single hitch. I didn’t do one single thing to it and it’s fine now .
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