Well finally went shooting after 8 weeks of being away from my guns. Had its up and downs thats for sure! Shot the XDs and my FNX-45 and dint have issues. Even with my new load for 45. Took 20 rounds or so to get back on target but afterwards i was back to my normal shooting with them.
My 10mm RIA though...tried a new load with it and had nothing but issues. Had probably 3 feed issues and 1 just weird one in like 40 rounds. Got it home and was just racking the slide and noticed the spring makes a pretty terrible sound. Hard ot describe but lets just say it makes noise which a recoil spring shouldnt be doing. Tried taking it apart and reassembling with no luck. So not sure whats up with it. I know the reports were RIA was only supplying 14lb or 16lb springs so not sure if i damaged it shooting hotter loads or something. It had shot underwood 10mm 220 hardcast (only like 24 rounds though) just fine before. But ordered a new Wolff 20lb variable spring, which id been meaning ot a long time ago, so hopefully that fixes it.
As for the stuck case. That was just weird. 8th round (last round). 7th round ejected fine and the 8th round chambered but felt weird. So like always i stopped, dropped the mag, and tried to rack the slide. But i couldnt. It was stuck with the slide closed. Neither dad nor I could get it to rack. Counted holes on the target (7 holes) so i knew there was nothing stuck in the barrel. So after some standing around thinking of what we should do we decided to shoot it. Luckily it shot just fine and ejected the case. Case looked perfectly fine (as did all the rest, new load so i check each and every case). Never had that issue before. It shot another 8 rounds just fine after that. Not sure if thats where the spring suffered damage or what but it was weird. So heres a question for ya guys...what would you have done? Live round in the chamber and you cant rack the slick since it is stuck.
Last up was my ruger 10/22. I did some mods to it. Bolt Buffer, Extended mag release, auto bolt release, and extended charging handle. All the mods worked fine and were nice. But i seemed to have tons of ammo issues. Lots of double feeds and stove pipes. Not sure if it was the mag i was using or the mods so have to try it out more later. Also had a slame fire which startled me a bit but i knew the round was chambered so it was handled just fine.
Did play with the Vortex Strikefire and will say i am impressed with it. Was easy to sight in and was clear and bright. The green dot was nice as well. The "doubler" works fine but takes some getting used to. For the 130 i paid for it i am quite pleased! Though i will buy a new mount for it since i dont care for the one it came with (a high mount to cowitness with AR sights)