Springfield Prodigy 4.25 several hundred rounds in

[sinwagon71]

Well, I have had a 4.25 Springfield Prodigy for a few months now that I traded in to. It was an all-factory gun with the Springfield with the HEX optic and 2 17rds mags. It shot well and has accurate enough to get hits at 15 yds on 33% IPSC steel plates constantly if I do my part. I will say I don’t care for the HEX optic dot seems fuzzy and I can see the refresh rate causing a flicker which bugs me.

Now I decided to play with this gun a little for tuning, starting with just a teardown and polishing the MIM parts and cleaning up any rough spots on the frame around the trigger and bow and the mag release. This did make the gun run a bit smoother to me but nothing drastic as it shot well from the beginning. There were a few things that were not ideal on the gun did not like how far recessed the slide stop was made it hard to operate one-handed and the safety just felt sharp on the edge of my thumb and had a little slop up and down.

So that got me wanting to do some small upgrades below is the parts I have installed. This has dropped the trigger pull weight to around 2 lbs, Safety is positive, and feels good on my thumb. The gun runs like a top and I have no issues with any of the magazines not feeding or locking back. Yes I could have bought a Staccato for a couple hundred more but I like to tinker, I did this one part at a time to see what difference each one made all in all very happy with this now I think I want the 5-inch version

Atlas Gunworks Toolless guide rod
Atlas Gunworks long flat trigger
Atlas Gunworks Perfect Match Ignition Kit with Lightened Hammer
Atlas Gunworks Carry Ambi Thumb Safety
10-8 Performance Mag stop
Dawson Precision Magwell, for STI/Staccato Gen 1 Grips
Atlas Gunworks 23rd Mag
Springfield 20 rd mag
Springfield 26 rd mag
Agency AOS mounting plate for Aimpoint ACRO P2
Aimpoint ACRO P2
Modlite PL350-PLHv2 Light

 

[MidniteFlame]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tomahawk1088]

Nice, this looks awesome! I’ve been really wanting to get one and do something similar but I keep telling myself I need to focus on shooting what I already have more.

 

[sinwagon71]

Yea I think I am finally done with it added a few more parts to complete the look.
Changed these final parts :
Ed Brown stainless slide stop
Dawson Precisiongrip stainless grip screws
Dawson Precision drilled and tapped mag release with a stainless button

 

[ReservoirDawg10]

That's a lot of money and work to end up with something not as good as a stacatto.

 

[sinwagon71]

That's a lot of money and work to end up with something not as good as a stacatto.

I am not sure a staccato shoots any better and even with the parts and watching the prices are still cheaper than the base staccato and seems to be a lot of those for sale on here with little to no rounds on them

 

[ReservoirDawg10]

I am not sure a staccato shoots any better and even with the parts and watching the prices are still cheaper than the base staccato and seems to be a lot of those for sale on here with little to no rounds on them

There are a lot of glocks for sale. They must suck. There are a lot of Prodigys as well. Your argument is weak sauce.

 

[sinwagon71]

All
Good but the weak sauce is the old "I mUsT BuY what The InTeRnet TeLlS Me tOo" and nothing is more gooder.

never said they are a ****ty Staccato is a good pistol, they shoot well but why spend more if you do not need to for something to tinker with?

**** I don't like Glocks but at 350 great tool but at 900 not so much I think the same thing about the Staccatos