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Recoil Spring for Springfield Trophy Match

JimmyZ
Happy Friday to all,

I was hoping someone could lend me some advice on what type of replacement recoil spring I would need for a Trophy Match.

I no longer have the original and I swapped it out with one of those variable springs because I've been reloading light target loads. I haven't fired the gun in years and I'm thinking about converting it to my bedside gun but I'm afraid the lighter spring will not function correctly with defense rounds.

I looked in the users manual and still can't find the original spring weight.

While I'm at it I may as well replace the springs in a glock 19 that I've had since '93 that's fired thousands and thousands of rounds. I think that also needs some new springs but I just don't know where to start.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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  • TrooperAllen469
    I am a big fan of Wolff springs, and they are available through Brownells. The problem with shooting heavy loads on light springs is the battering of the slide against the frame, resulting in frame damage.
    If your Glock recoil spring is still origional, I highly doubt there is anything wrong with it. Even with thousands of rounds downrange. Magazine springs in the Glock can develop a memory, but that requires it remaining loaded for about a decade. I am yet to encounter or hear of any problem with a Glock recoil spring going weak since I saw the first one, almost two decades ago.
    Perhaps if you describe some of your Glocks symptoms, we can narrow it down.
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  • Rocklobster
    The standard 16-pound spring will be fine for your Trophy Match, with factory-loaded ammunition.
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  • perry shooter
    Hello we are lucky to have wolff and their springs . With any 1911 you can "tune" the gun to the load.What You can do is start with a heavy spring and load ONE round in mag and fire the pistol .If the slide stays back increase the weight of the spring until you get failure to stay back this is caused because the slide under recoil does not go all the way back. Then reduce by one spring.The heaviest spring that works with any load will be the easiest on the gun .The factory spring will work but a spring that will let the slide just KISS the frame under recoil will make the gun last longer. I have some Match guns Both light target guns with ligt springs and HARDBALL GUNS with heavy springs that have had over 100,000 rounds through them.
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