Lost

The internet is full of black holes. One minute, you're minding your own business, surfing some blogs, and the next minute you're off clicking link after link until you find yourself wondering just how in the Nine Hells you got where you are, if you're even sure where that is.

Take today, for instance. I hit a link in this post at Robb Allen's blog, and off I went into a massive hunt for information on the 6.8 SPC cartridge, then to Wiki for some comparison to the 5.56 to find out just how it (physically) works out so well in ARs. That lead to looking at 6.8 uppers, which meant looking at magazines, and that lead to looking at magazines for every gun I own (and a couple that I don't).

Somewhere along the way I remembered how folks put a D mainspring in the Beretta 92FS to lighten up the DA trigger pull. The I found out that the 92 and the Px4 use the same mainspring, and that people put D mainsprings in Px4s for the same reason. Then I found that the hammer group on a Px4 Storm comes out as a unit without special tools. At this point I decided that it must be done. I would learn this, and then I would be ordering a new mainspring for my carry gun.

It took nearly making a big mistake on the trigger pin (if you have to force it, something's wrong!) only to later find out that I didn't need to remove it (which I didn't). Getting the hammer pin out is a three-handed-job, but I got it.

So, what started out as catching up on Robb's blog turned into learning that I don't need to pay someone to replace the mainspring in my Px4 and proving it.

Yeah. Black holes.



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