When it's time to replace the recoil spring?

Laserbait said:

Springs do wear out from compression/decompression cycles. Back "in the day", I suspect, manufactures didn't care if the guns wore out from the frame being battered (although some designs/materials hold up better than others). There was no internet for people complain en masse , so reputations were much safer.

That said, I replace springs when my auto's start acting funky, not before.

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Agreed .... If it works fine, leave it alone.

REV

When's the time? Before you have to/it's too late!

When's that? Beats me!

Most companies say from 5000-7500 w 9x19s. Have no idea if any testing has actually been done by anybody. The military base here does not change the springs on their M9s and some training guns have over 30,000 rounds through them!? They have cracked frames and locking blocks, but no slides.

One of the gunzines ran 15,000 through a SR9 in 2 days w/o any problems...

I don't think thats going to happen very soon on my SR40c because the slide on the 40c seems to be the stiffest of all my SR's.