what's up guys I just got back from my local gun shop
I've got the Colt defender that I showed previously in one of my other
Springfield videos I came across an update for this gun that will help it
out tremendously the recoil spring that that comes with stock is junk it's
trash throw it out get rid of it if you've had problems like I have when
you're taking this apart or putting it back together this this piece is really
really hard to get back in and not only that the slide I've had a lot of issues
with the slide getting stuck when you're trying to take it off after you've
removed this and I'll show you what's causing that I'm gonna switch over to my
GoPro real quick so just follow along it's a nice upgrade
it's not too expensive I think it was about fifty dollars and it's simply just
replacing your stock colt recoil spring with a Kimber right here here's the part
number if you're interested that's the part number that I bought and I'll show
you the advantages of it I'm gonna switch over to the GoPro and put it
together and and show you what advantages are with a why it makes it
better and all that stuff okay so this is the stock colt recoil
spring the biggest biggest problem that I found is this piece here see how it
well I don't know if you can see that or not but it'll actually move
show that flexes and it's all because it's held in with a little retaining
clip which I hate when you're going to put it back together a lot of the
problems that I've experienced is that it won't line up very well and you put
it back oops when you put when you're putting it back together see how that
bends back towards the back of the gun it makes it hard to get it back together
because this piece here wants this this piece here wants to stay forward so what
I've done and I'm sure I'm not the first one but I recently discovered the Kimber
makes a much better recoil spring for this gun so we're gonna throw this in
and here's the biggest advantages that piece is all one piece it can't move
also they did a little bit better job with this piece here they finished it
off here so there's no gap right here in between your barrel and your recoil
spring looking from the outside so let's throw that in real quick and if any of
you have one of these colt 45 defenders you know how much of a pain it can be to
get it back together after taking it apart because of this spring
see how much straighter that stays in there now that piece there it'll line up
perfectly so we're gonna do just like you know just like you normally would
slide it back put the pin in and you're done now what I found was this piece
with the with the stock recoil spring let me show you again comes apart much
easier it doesn't get stuck right there like it did with the stock one at least
not yet I haven't had any issues with this
taking it apart or putting it back together other part that I was talking
about see how it fills that gap in right there I think it gives it a cleaner look
and yeah you're looking down the barrel of a slide not the whole gun so it fills
that in right there so you don't have that gap that you do with the stock
recoil spring so anyway that's that works much much better than this stock
colt recoil spring just to show you again
line this up real quick
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