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One of my pistols is a Glock 17, gen 4 if that makes a difference.

Back 6 months or so ago I bought the complete spring kit from Ghost Inc. Traded out all the springs including the plunger spring. Also put the Ghost connector in it. Used the 4 pound firing pin spring. Man it was great. Trigger was around 3 pounds and my shooting instantly got better.

Last week, I had trouble with shooting some Monarchs and the Tulas in it. They wouldn't go bang. Went to brass Winchester white box and went through 150 rounds and had no more issues. This week, now the Winchesters are giving me intermittent issues now.

Took the spring back out and put the 6 pound spring in there. Its eating everything. 300 rounds of Tula, Monarchs and Winchester white box. Not a single misfire.

So pretty convinced I was getting light primer strikes with the 4# spring in. It worked for months and probably a couple thousand rounds with the 4# spring in with no issues.

So I am wondering if there are other aftermarket springs that will give me reliability and less poundage out there. Anyone know of some to look into?

I like that trigger down to around 3#s if I can get it back down there and it still be reliable.

Thanks

It's not the answer you're looking for, but I wouldn't use anything but OEM Glock springs in an EDC pistol.

I picked up an old police surplus Glock 19 (gen 2) a while back. It looked a little tired so I replaced a few of the springs with stock springs. The only mod I did was to install the Ghost 3.5lb. trigger connector. I've had no issues shooting any kind of ammo. I wouldn't say it was a HUGE difference but I would say that the trigger is noticeably better than when I first got the gun.

Bryanmc wrote:It's not the answer you're looking for, but I wouldn't use anything but OEM Glock springs in an EDC pistol.

Ditto. It's one thing to add parts which give functionality that the base gun doesn't have (night sights, mounted flashlight, etc), but modifying or replacing factory parts with aftermarket parts is rarely worth the money even if they function as reliably as the unmodifed factory parts.

There's just no way Ghost put near the money, research, and engineering into their parts as Glock did to the parts you replaced.

If you're trying to shoot better, fix your shooting. Doing all that crazy stuff to a gun to improve your shooting is going about it the wrong way.

I know this isn't what you want to hear, and it's not meant as an insult so please don't take it that way.

I may have missed it, but I didn't understand why you would change out parts on a Gen 4 unless you have ran a whole lot of rounds through it.

I would not use anything in any of my defensive pistols, but factory parts.