Glock Maritime Spring Cups

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Tactical Jackalope

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Hello all, just wondering if anyone experienced this same issue.

I tried installing the maritime spring cups on my CC pistol which is a Glock 19 Gen 4. Put them on, but then the whole assembly wouldn't go into the firing pin channel smoothly. Tried moving them at a different angle, since it's a plus.. made it into an X then a + but it still wasn't happening.

So, I pushed harder and it skipped it's way on in. I assembled the gun, dry fired, and it didn't do the "thud" that Glocks do when you dry fire them. Then it didn't reset when I racked the slide.

Took them out, put it back to stock, it's fine.


I emailed Ghost Inc. We're in the same city, I think I'll get a faster response just going over there but I'll wait this out a little more.






(Also before anyone goes on a tangent as to why I want these in my gun. Besides the fact that I just feel like it, I also want the added reliability seeing as I'm A. In a flood zone. B. I go fishing. & C. It's always on me, my guns do take some abuse. That X shaped spring cup vs the O really let's the water out faster if it's submerged and comes back out.)
 
Well, from just reading the post, the size is off. Sounds like they are too large, and tight in the channel.
Are they glock factory, or aftermarket? I know you said you got them from ghost.
 
They don't really do anything but allow water to drain out of your pistol easier if you submerge your gun and want to fire it fairly quickly afterward.

I am an armorer and think the maritime springcups are silly if you're not a navy seal, but I'm sure you can find some factory glock ones out there somewhere.
 
I use the marine cups on all my Glocks.

Yes it allows water to pass the cup, but it also allows air. Striker falls a bit harder.

Deaf
 
I cheated, and cut the original cups into maritime cups.

I am an armorer also, so i also know how they came to be. Maybe i will need them, maybe i wont. But i have them, as they hurt nothing to have them without needing them.

Now that i think of it, at a 3gun comp not too long ago, they had everybody start a stage with their handgun in a bucket of water.
 
They don't really do anything but allow water to drain out of your pistol easier if you submerge your gun and want to fire it fairly quickly afterward.
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That is not correct. They permit water trapped in the striker channel to flow past the springcups and prevent hydraulic pressure from slowing down the striker. Thus allowing the striket to move at close to its normal speed and strike the primer with enough force for reliable ignition.
 
Well yes Shark, I know what they were designed for, but... without the water the AIR will now move past a bit faster, hence a faster striker fall.

Due to the Glock being a striker fired gun and not capable of a second strike on the primer, I want the hardest hit on the primer I can get.

Deaf
 
Deaf,

My post was in reply to the quoted text regarding the cups not having any effect EXCEPT water drainage. That is false.

I dont know what effect the free passager of air would have on locktime, but it cant hurt;)
 
I am an armorer and think the maritime springcups are silly if you're not a navy seal, but I'm sure you can find some factory glock ones out there somewhere.
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Real deal seals use hammer fired sidearms in maritime ops for a reason.
 
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