We just added an inexpensive “spare parts kit” to the store under “springs and miscellaneous.” Odds are you’ll never need these, but we get a few calls every year from people who lost a screw in the carpet, or sucked the retaining plate into a vacuum cleaner.  When you order, let us know what sorts of floorplates you’re using so we can send you the perfect set.

We’ve adapted the “hollow ground” process used on our HKP30 basepad retainer to the CX4 carbine (shipping today). Most pistol magazines protrude beyond the frame slightly, making it relatively easy to bolt on an extended basepad. The carbine’s and the HKP30’s magazines do not protrude, so our external retention system has to slide into a very narrow space.

Just received our latest pre-production prototype on our magwell for the Ruger Mark III Hunter (22/45).  Hoping to have those in production in the first quarter of 2014!

This week we’re searching for an inexpensive spring for XDM shooters that prefer last-round slide lock over the +1 (but no slide lock) capability of the Grams spring/follower kit.  Turns out the factory XDM spring resembles the Glock spring — but with some important little quirks. Currently if you want the full +3  you’re stuck with the stock spring and its  “iffy” last-round lockback after 50 cycles or so.

Using a 140mm Glock spring gives you +2.5, and locks the slide back positively.

We just posted a quick video to show how to most easily assemble the HKP30 “Border Special” system in our Youtube Video Support area. Includes what parts NOT to use, and a look at a common problem with the spring rotating 90 degrees during assembly.