Hi Shane
You may have misinterpreted what he said or he was speaking in general terms. The recoil spring must not compress to coil bind before the slide hits the shok buff or spring guide. If you take your slide ,bushing and spring plug. And assemble them, Measure from the back of the slide to the bottom of the spring plug. (Gov't mdl. usully about 1.6"-1.7")this would be the max compressed length.If you shorten it to compress into the spring plug (usually about 1.375"inside)You will be cutting off a lot of spring for no reason. I trim my springs to 1.6" compressed.Keep in mind that a reverse plug is a whole different animal. It is flush with the back of the slide. And therfore it must compress fully into the reverse plug.The bottom line is that you do not want the spring to get to coil bind before the slide is fully retracted.
Hope that helped
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Scott D. Mulkerin
www.sdmfabricating.com
You may have misinterpreted what he said or he was speaking in general terms. The recoil spring must not compress to coil bind before the slide hits the shok buff or spring guide. If you take your slide ,bushing and spring plug. And assemble them, Measure from the back of the slide to the bottom of the spring plug. (Gov't mdl. usully about 1.6"-1.7")this would be the max compressed length.If you shorten it to compress into the spring plug (usually about 1.375"inside)You will be cutting off a lot of spring for no reason. I trim my springs to 1.6" compressed.Keep in mind that a reverse plug is a whole different animal. It is flush with the back of the slide. And therfore it must compress fully into the reverse plug.The bottom line is that you do not want the spring to get to coil bind before the slide is fully retracted.
Hope that helped
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Scott D. Mulkerin
www.sdmfabricating.com