I tried them. I hated them. Won't use them.

 

Are you referring to these ?? If so I had never heard of them until now...

Shok-Buff« Recoil Buffers | 1911-Wilson Combat

 

Yup, those are them. I bought a kit of them, used one of them once.

At the time--years ago--one gunwriter did a test and sheared off a piece, causing a stoppage.

I figured that Tussey could fix anything I could break on the pistol, but not my body if my defensive piece suffered a stoppage.

I gave the unused buffers and the replacement rod to a guy with an aluminum frame Colt.

 

Very interesting concept..For $7 they would be worth a try and if ya don't like them you just pitch them...

Could they fall apart ??

EDIT..Chico answered my question..

 

I used them on my Colt for years. You need to replace them once in awhile, but they def buffer things down. Never had an issue with them.


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I tried them once, didn't care for them.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

When I had feeding issues with my Tactical Pro I called the factory and the first question they asked if I was using them. They told me not to. Just saying.

 

I have probably read a few hundred reviews on them today on other forums and it's 50/50...

Like anything else, some love them and some hate them...

I will keep my guns like the factory made them...W/O

 

Come on guys your recoil buffer is your set of...........

 

When I was doing a lot of combat shooting (+400 rounds every week, per handgun) I was using reloads from a Dillon Square Deal that were about a 7/8s load. Strong enough not to mess with slide timing, yet toss the brass completely clear of the pistol without excessive recoil.

I changed the recoil springs often, but then they were 6 to 8 dollars per each. Every year they went back to Tussey for preventative service.

The wild card was a stainless Colt Officers ACP. That was the gun I carried at work, and I shot that puppy with fullhouse loads at every outing. After the third complete rebuild, Tussey pronounced it a "wall hanger" and told me to stop shooting it--it is the only firearm I have ever worn out.

So technically, there is a need for shock buffers. My records show that I loaded 80,000 rounds before I broke the handle on the Square Deal, which Dillon replaced for free--and I continued from there. That encompassed a full-size 1911, a Detonics and the Officers ACP.

If you're a combat shooter, I say "maybe," but you have to be doing serious damage to a pistol to be a candidate.

 

My HK P30s 9mm came OEM with a nylon buffer of sorts that rides/slides on the OD of the spring. I see that such contraptions that attempt to buffer recoil have their controversy.

 

I've used them in the past and finally stopped using after experiencing several FTF issues. My thoughts are now if these shock buffers were necessary, why didn't John Browning include them in his first 1911's?

 

I stopped using them years ago when I started having FTF problems in my Colt Gold Cup in bullseye competition. I' am know of the opinion that if shock buffers were necessary, why didn't John Browning include them in his first 1911 design? Food for thought.

 

We have never tried them because of all the recommendations over the past several years to not use them.

 

Why?

If the recoil of a .45 ACP bothered me, I might consider a recoil buffer. It doesn't, so I don't!!

And that's the truth!!