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MCARBO P365 Titanium Striker Assembly, CNC Housing and Slide Cap Review

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Discussion starter · #22 ·
drchadbaginski said:
I have three of them. They are awesome and I wouldn't run my P365's without them.
30k+ live rounds on trigger spring kits
5k+ live rounds on titanium striker assemblies
500 live rounds on cnc striker housings and slide caps
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You have those round counts on THIS equipment? If not I really don't see a correlation, I've got thousands of rounds on modified Glocks, but that isn't comparable to THIS situation...
 
Discussion starter · #24 ·
drchadbaginski said:
Haha. Yes. I have a current total of 33k+ live rounds across 3 P365 fcu's. My highest single P365 fcu is 21k+.
I'm on Icarus Precision's P365 Development Team.
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CRAZY! Congrats. The way you wrote it I thought you meant "in general" not specific to the 365, my apologies. At this point I may just take a dremel and grind the relief cut in the back plate so I can use it as I like the design. As far as the striker, I may try it with the stock striker spring and see how that feels and works. We'll see, I'm kind of undecided at this point as all the FTFs have soured me to the striker/spring combo.
 
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jp0319 said:
I may try it with the stock striker spring and see how that feels and works.
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A solution for light strikes is certainly to use heavier springs with the titanium striker.

Spring weights are:
MCarbo Titanium Striker spring is 3 pounds.
MCarbo Trigger Spring Kit spring is 4 pounds.
OEM Striker spring is 5 pounds.

If you use one of the heavier springs the hard primers will be reliable.

I mostly use soft primers but sometimes get hard primers and just accept an occasional light strike.

I wouldn't completely give up on the striker because MCarbo has a lot to offer in performance. It's definitely a tradeoff between performance and reliability. I'm always trying to find the sweet spot that works best for me.
 
Discussion starter · #29 ·
drchadbaginski said:
A solution for light strikes is certainly to use heavier springs with the titanium striker.

Spring weights are:
MCarbo Titanium Striker spring is 3 pounds.
MCarbo Trigger Spring Kit spring is 4 pounds.
OEM Striker spring is 5 pounds.

If you use one of the heavier springs the hard primers will be reliable.

I mostly use soft primers but occasionally get hard primers and just accept an occasional light strike.

I wouldn't completely give up on the striker because MCarbo has a lot to offer in performance. It's definitely a tradeoff between performance and reliability. I'm always trying to find the sweet spot that works best for me.
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Thanks. I need to label these things LOL I have so may springs in my cabinet from projects and bags of parts... I had the MCARBO spring kit, then I got the Tactical Triggers kit, and I don't know which spring is which anymore.
 
#30 ·
drchadbaginski said:
Light springs will cause light strikes with hard primers.
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I tried just the lighter spring, with everything else stock. Got routine light primer strikes on NATO 124gr and a few other brands with hard primers. Switched back to the stock striker spring and all good again. I'd like to try the CNC stainless striker housing, but a bit expensive for me (and would have to use their special slide cap).
 
#32 ·
I got my MCARBO striker sleeve before the price increase. The install was easily and I have had zero issues with it and therefore no regrets about it. I will stick with the factory striker and striker spring because on my P365 the trigger break weight is just fine at around 4.25-4.5lbs. The sleeve did smooth the trigger up a little bit in my pistol. Do you absolutely need one of these, no, but IMHO it is a better design than the factory sleeve. As long as you don't over oil your pistol and try to keep oil out of the striker channel, I will probably clean the striker channel every 1000 rds.

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#33 ·
drchadbaginski said:
My experience with the CNC stainless striker housing is it makes each trigger pull consistent. With the OEM plastic striker housing some pulls would be nice and smooth and other pulls would feel sticky and sluggish.
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This is an interesting/curious observation related to the striker sleeve in a P365. Not sure how the striker sleeve would have any effect in felt trigger pull, since the trigger is simply dropping the sear, not moving the striker.
 
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Phoenix. said:
Not sure how the striker sleeve would have any effect in felt trigger pull
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Excellent point. I'm going to give closer consideration to my observation......

It could be because the CNC striker sleeve locks into place inside the slide and slide cap and it holds the striker in exactly the same position in the striker channel so every time the striker releases it’s always consistent?

As opposed to the OEM striker sleeve which allows the striker and sleeve to float around in the striker channel possibly causing variations of pressure on the striker sear interface and/or more or less coverage of the striker sear interface as well as potentially inconsistent up and down movement of the striker itself as the sear disengages and releases the striker??
 
#35 ·
jp0319 said:
So, I'm one who likes to play around with new wizbang firearm parts and accessories. Sometimes they are great and work as advertised and sometimes they don't. This is the case with the MCARBO P365 Titanium Striker Assembly, CNC Striker Housing, and Slide Cap.

TLDR: I don't recommend it!

MCARBO's titanium striker has been out for a while and I've considered getting it but held off. I've been using the stock striker with a reduced power MCARBO spring and it's been good to go so I figured why rock the boat? Recently they released their CNC striker housing and slide cap and packaged it with their striker and I thought what the heck, I'll give it a go, I hate the plastic striker housing and its a PITA to get off and on so the ingenious slide cap and lock was enough to get me to give the whole package a try.

After receiving the parts I installed them and the dryfire showed a improved trigger pull so I was happy. Due to life events I was unable to take the parts out to test at the range until last weekend. Lets just say the package was not worth the wait...

First shot, click... FTF. rack the slide, check the round, light strike. Next round went off, then click FTF, light strike. I had brought a small selection of ammo Speer Lawman FMJ, Speer GDHP, S&B FMJ, and Federal HST. I started with the S&B which I'd recently had an issue igniting with the reduced power striker spring. So I swapped to the Speer, same thing, both hollow points same thing. All together I had about 12 FTF with light primer strikes, I gave up. Luckily I brought a 320 with me so it wasn't a complete lost cause range trip.

Now, if that wasn't bad enough, I'm thinking "well the CNC housing will be fine I'll just use the stock striker and spring with the housing and slide cap. Which brings me to the next issue. The slide cap does not have a cut out for the safety lever which makes it almost impossible to reassemble the pistol. I have to hold the safety lever down with something and then jam the slide into my bench to get the slide on.

I'm probably going to try and return the whole thing, but if they don't take it back I'll file down the slide cap so at least its useful.

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Thanks for sharing
 
#36 ·
I don’t understand the fascination with titanium and I don’t just mean in firearms. It’s used in so many products in the EDC market and I feel like it’s used mostly for marketing than anything else. I mean, titanium is not stronger than steel it’s just lighter and I don’t know why that would be a good thing in a striker as the felt weight would be negligible though trigger feel seems to be the goal with these strikers so I can’t say.
I like tinkering too and I won’t blame anyone for setting their gun up the way they want. I just don’t see a benefit of this striker.
 
#37 ·
quid said:
I don’t understand the fascination with titanium and I don’t just mean in firearms. It’s used in so many products in the EDC market and I feel like it’s used mostly for marketing than anything else. I mean, titanium is not stronger than steel it’s just lighter and I don’t know why that would be a good thing in a striker as the felt weight would be negligible though trigger feel seems to be the goal with these strikers so I can’t say.
I like tinkering too and I won’t blame anyone for setting their gun up the way they want. I just don’t see a benefit of this striker.
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I'm with you..
Understand the urge to improve our pistols to an extent that we will let them take advantage of us ..
"How could they cancel customer orders in order to raise the prices..?"
I will NOT spent a penny on M.carbo any more ..
My stock striker is fine ..
 
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jp0319 said:
Yeah, I was wishing that was my case but is wasn't. I thought of adding a factory spring to it but I'm not sure what affect that would have with the titanium.
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Do you have any more to lose if you re-install the factory spring and try it?
A heavier spring, at times, will cure light strikes. Also, is the MC striker in-spec? Not everything comes out perfectly.
HTH
 
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