For $1,645 MSRP, you would think you would get perfection. Nope, not with this Trinity Nevada P320 Pirho slide that I bought from OpticsPlanet. First of all, there were tooling and machining marks that shouldn't have been on something this expensive and the PVD finish on the slide only lasted only a few dozen rounds. Also after a few dozen rounds, the front sight flew off. The sight wasn't even pressed in, but it was glue in. Nice try UNLV post-grad engineers!!! To me, this slide has all of Taurus quality at a Staccato price!
On Range Day #1, inserted the magazine and dropped the slide, but the round hung up. I did this a couple of times, but got the same result. Packed up everything and took the pistol home. I looked through everything and discovered that the extractor assembly was bent and caused the extractor to seize up. To be on the safe side, I replaced the entire assembly with the $100 Rival slide complete kit.
On Range Day #2, I inserted the magazine, dropped the slide, the round chambered, and the slide went into battery. Great! I pulled the trigger, the round went off, but the slide wouldn't lock back. The Trinity Nevada came with a recoil tuning kit (Red 12lb, green 14lb, and blue 15lb, with the green installed). None of them worked, so I swapped them out for the DPM 3 springs and 3 plugs combo, but none of them worked and the slide still wouldn't cycle. It was still a single shot pistol. After 100 rounds, I got tired of racking the slide and too...
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