Prodigy

Good Morning,
Imagine how excited I was as an owner of Springfield Mod 2, XD 40, SOCOM M1A, and this week the brand new Springfield Prodigy 5” 1911.
I went to the range yesterday only to have my very first shot fail to feed. After a few mins of wondering I spoke to the range officer who told me this is the third prodigy he has seen so this. The other two he put oil on and said it needed a break in period. I shot 200 rounds with failure to feed happening 90% of the time. Very upsetting and frustrating day plus wasting 200rds of ammo on top of a $1700 gun which is now back at the gunsmith already. Very frustrated.
Brand new out of the box expensive gun. As I’m looking at my cheap 9mms not have one failure at the range (CZ Scorpion, M&P Shield, Springfield Mod 2) I saved the Prodigy for last only to ruin my day out 😢

After a very thorough strip down and cleaning w/ lube, followed by no less than a solid week of dry firing w/ A-Zoom Striker snap caps, my 4.25" Prodigy has not had any issues with FTFeed, FTFire, or FTEject using 115gr or 124gr ammo. 147gr is where I've experienced some grief...

I also kept my 3 17rd and 4 20rd mags fully "pre-loaded" while I did my week long dry firing period. I had each mag cleaned extensively before first range firing, especially inside the upper/inner feed lips of the 17rd mags as they were all rough inside.

Close to 1,500 rds thus far and I'd say the 4.25" version is the way to go based on what I've seen and heard from others. I'm waiting on my pre-ordered optic plate, and I hope the added weight of the red dot doesn't weigh/slow down the slide during firing. I thought the 5" model would be too much weight for the stock 9lb spring to work efficiently enough, but I may be wrong.

This thing is a keeper for me, and is dead-on accurate at the range. Very enjoyable to shoot!

Looks and feels better with a TLR-1HL vs a X300U-B on the 4.25" model...

FYI, the "10-8 Performance" Slide Stop, Gen 2 is the PERFECT upgrade for the rather standard slide stop for the S.A. Prodigy (or most any other 1911/2011 pistols). There are 2 color choices, as well as slide stops for 9mm and .45ACP:

Slide Stop, Gen 2

I recently purchased the Carbon Steel, 9mm 10-8 slide stop and it is top notch in fitment and function. Highly recommended!

Oh yeah, here's the 12# recoil spring to help "break-in" the 4.25" model (which cycles better than the stock 9# spring)...

No Wasp here, but I will install a HS407CO x2 on my Prodigy. Ever since they were first announced, I finally received the long ago pre-ordered & back-ordered AoS Plate (A14B). Should be pretty straight forward for the install and zeroing, so yeah, it's about to go down. More to follow...

Knowing my luck, CHPWs will release theirs for the Prodigy in the coming weeks that'll probably be just as good if not better...