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Okay to leave slide locked back for storage?
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<blockquote data-quote="criticalbass" data-source="post: 945735" data-attributes="member: 711"><p>Three things kill springs. Stretching beyond design limits and compressing beyond design limits are quick killers. Normal wear from flexing within limits is a much slower killer.</p><p></p><p>So, leaving a slide locked open, though it goes against what seems logical, won't hurt a spring. It took a metalurgist to convince me of this, and lots of people don't (and won't) believe it because it doesn't seem reasonable to them. Those short magazine followers that allow one or more extra rounds in a mag will shorten mag spring life because they allow the spring to be compressed beyond limits.</p><p></p><p>A very common spring killer is stretching the mag spring on pump or auto loading shotguns. CB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="criticalbass, post: 945735, member: 711"] Three things kill springs. Stretching beyond design limits and compressing beyond design limits are quick killers. Normal wear from flexing within limits is a much slower killer. So, leaving a slide locked open, though it goes against what seems logical, won't hurt a spring. It took a metalurgist to convince me of this, and lots of people don't (and won't) believe it because it doesn't seem reasonable to them. Those short magazine followers that allow one or more extra rounds in a mag will shorten mag spring life because they allow the spring to be compressed beyond limits. A very common spring killer is stretching the mag spring on pump or auto loading shotguns. CB [/QUOTE]
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