Kinda cross posting some of this but I figure this is a good place for this info.
I posted some pics a back on the 7th after I picked up my RIA Tactical. One issue I've had is with the gip safety. It would not release the trigger until the grip safety was in solid contact with the frame which was causing problems as you might expect. I took a few passes with a file on the extension that blocks the trigger and it was better. I took a few more and it's better still. If I rush my presentation and come up with an imperfect grip I can still have a situation where the trigger is blocked. After these adjustments it's disengaging at approx 75% travel, and without measuring it looks like both my Kimbers need a bit more movement than that to disengage, although the safeties are of different shapes which has an effect on the grip obviously. Perhaps I'm getting close, it's easy to do so I'll go slow with fitting it.
Other things I've done to this gun so far: I have removed the ambi safety and fitted and Ed Brown "tactical" safety, removed the full length guide rod in favor of an EB GI rod and plug, changed out the sear pin for one of standard length, installed an EB extended mag release and some VZ grips.
After all of this and including my last adjustment to the GS I shot it a bit yesterday, at this point the gun had about 150 rounds through it. The gun bound up just prior to going into battery after I had fired about 25 rounds. After I cleared it I cold see no reason why so I field stripped it and discovered that the barrel link pin had walked out to the left and was contacting the frame... I centered the pin and VERY lightly staked it so I could finish what I was doing, but I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't just send it in and have it all checked out. I suppose that would be an opportunity to have some decent sights installed, what with the odd dovetail I'm still trying to figure out what to do about that.
What say you RIA experts?
I posted some pics a back on the 7th after I picked up my RIA Tactical. One issue I've had is with the gip safety. It would not release the trigger until the grip safety was in solid contact with the frame which was causing problems as you might expect. I took a few passes with a file on the extension that blocks the trigger and it was better. I took a few more and it's better still. If I rush my presentation and come up with an imperfect grip I can still have a situation where the trigger is blocked. After these adjustments it's disengaging at approx 75% travel, and without measuring it looks like both my Kimbers need a bit more movement than that to disengage, although the safeties are of different shapes which has an effect on the grip obviously. Perhaps I'm getting close, it's easy to do so I'll go slow with fitting it.
Other things I've done to this gun so far: I have removed the ambi safety and fitted and Ed Brown "tactical" safety, removed the full length guide rod in favor of an EB GI rod and plug, changed out the sear pin for one of standard length, installed an EB extended mag release and some VZ grips.
After all of this and including my last adjustment to the GS I shot it a bit yesterday, at this point the gun had about 150 rounds through it. The gun bound up just prior to going into battery after I had fired about 25 rounds. After I cleared it I cold see no reason why so I field stripped it and discovered that the barrel link pin had walked out to the left and was contacting the frame... I centered the pin and VERY lightly staked it so I could finish what I was doing, but I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't just send it in and have it all checked out. I suppose that would be an opportunity to have some decent sights installed, what with the odd dovetail I'm still trying to figure out what to do about that.
What say you RIA experts?