Well done sir! You're reaction to the Prodigy is priceless. You shot one truly amazing gun and one truly great gun. You have the personal satisfaction of taking the Prodigy to the next level and it's hard to put a price on that. Thanks!

Hey man, my prodigy build is done after a year of tinkering. Thanks for the information in your vids, was great input. I ended up getting mine accu railed by Doug Jones, John Harrison custom made some irons for it. Went with the PT Hero grip, DSC comped barrel, all Brazos internals, and an SVI trigger. Overall, it was expensive however I would put it up against any 2011 on the market with confidence.

@americantrucker9813

Ай бұрын

That is awesome my friend and thank you very much! I really do appreciate it hearing that and I’m glad you’ve made it your own and did your Spin because ultimately that’s what it’s all about! customizing is sincerely half of the fun ! People whom leave it bone stock will never understand! God bless to you and yours, my friend!

I put atlas perfect match ignition system, tool less guiderod, thumb safety, trgger and gas pedal in my prodogy. Im into the gun for 2k. It shoots like a dream! No function issues at all. I would love to own an atlas but my Frankenstein prodogy is awesome for 2k!

@americantrucker9813

18 күн бұрын

Atlas makes incredible guns but the only difference between yours & an atlas at this point is cosmetics, & the aluminum grip. Whichever prodigy you have it will shoot practically identical to an equal length Atlas. You can even buy an Atlas Slide and hand fit the slide to get an Atlas fitting Frame/slide ( but you would possibly need to get a new bull barrel if you did that)

I absolutely agree with this. I bought the prodigy added about 300 worth of parts into it. And it runs phenomenal. So at 1600 I have plenty of room to make this an absolute beast under 2k. It has quickly become my favorite to shoot

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, I feel like anybody who has a good running prodigy is going to feel the way we do and because of all the negativity they will continue to shoot their Glocks and never know how amazing this platform really is! Basically as I watch the video I think it really just comes down to cosmetics. Obviously, the atlas is much better looking heck, I think a OEM prodigy would look better than mine, because I have done so many projects to it but in the end you’re simply paying three times as much just for it to look a little different and be able to tell people how much money you got! And in my case, I have to tell them about how much money I once had lol 😂 jk

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

By the way! Check out the Stealth Arms platypus it’s a 2011 that you custom build to some extent choosing slides and colors, trigger guard shape and this 2011 takes Glock 17 and larger as well as pmags of course !!! For around 1600

@overwatchtactical888

Жыл бұрын

@American Trucker awesome , you have done outstanding with your prodigy but how's that triarc slide stop working. Was it a drop in or some fitment necessary? What safeties did you go with?

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and the triarch requires some simple figment I’m doing a install and figment video for the prodigy in Thursday this week and my prodigy still uses the OEM safeties as well as the OEM guidrod and recoil spring.

Thank you for the review and honestly feedback. As much I love to get an atlas I love tinkering to mod my DS more. To each their own. I plan on getting a XC by the end of the year

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Your very welcome! And I completely understand and I am also interested in the XC it’s very interesting I only wish it had an aluminum grip for the price and than I’d be in !

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

By the way! Check out the Stealth Arms platypus it’s a 2011 that you custom build to some extent choosing slides and colors, trigger guard shape and this 2011 takes Glock 17 and larger as well as pmags of course !!! For around 1600

bruh nice video but that Nyx was on point. the Ds missed the plates a lot. Thanks for sharing.

@americantrucker9813

6 ай бұрын

Thanks my friend! And that’s certainly fair I’ll admit the high ambi safety’s on my Nyx are definitely an advantage!

I have the Athena and am in Love with Atlas Gunworks. I love Perfection and Quality

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

The Athena is very beautiful, I carry appendix so I find the commander length to be perfect and comfortable so I went with the Nyx it’s also pretty amazing after a little work. Atlas missed perfection on mine but I’m over it. They haven’t responded to my request for the replacement parts I had to put into mine who knows maybe this week they will it’ll be week 3 waiting

By the way! Check out the Stealth Arms platypus it’s a 2011 that you custom build to some extent choosing slides and colors, trigger guard shape and this 2011 takes Glock 17 and larger as well as pmags of course !!! For around 1600

would love to see a video on installing / tuning the triarc nice shooting! I need to replace the slide stop on my prodigy otherwise I am stuck doing overhand during emergency reloads.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I can do that! Good thing I haven’t done the prodigy’s triarch slide stop yet. I’m gonna say Thursday is about the best I can do for time I hope that’ll still help you out.

@magdumpmonday

Жыл бұрын

@@americantrucker9813 no rush I will look for it thanks man!

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

@@magdumpmondayyour welcome ! Have you heard of the Stealth arms platypus yet ? It’s a small company in Ohio building 2011s that take Glock mags. The guns are customer built via their website and range from 1400 to 1650.

@magdumpmonday

Жыл бұрын

@@americantrucker9813 wow that’s pretty cool will have to check that out. Told myself I’m not buying anymore for a while though 😂

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

@@magdumpmonday I completely understand! I can’t find a single review on KZread of that gun and I want to see it so bad I think mainly because I had been thinking about building a 2011 that could take Glock mags for years and the 45 Glock mags sitting in a drawer next to my gun table lol

More prodigy content! Please

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Thursday ! I’ll be doing a fitment & installation of the TriArc Intermittent slide stop on the Prodigy. As for more shooting content I’m working on it as I said it been a pain with the Pipeline blocking access to my normal target range so I’m working on finding somewhere cool to make content. But I’ll definitely figure it out.

Love my 5 inch prodigy runs flawless no mods needed on my end

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Which is something I’ve pointed out a great deal the prodigy doesn’t need upgrades to be a good gun some need tuned some may not but they’re excellent when they’re running properly.

4.25 or 5” prodigy? Really appreciate the unbiased review.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

It’s is the 4.25 and absolutely that’s why I do this just to share and help my fellow gun lovers ! Thanks for watching and Have a good day !

Hello, new to your channel. Enjoying the content so far.I’m not new to guns or working on them, but new to this platform. Am curious about your comments about putting Glock 17 spring in the magazine.. thanks

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you very much and I made this channel for people exactly like you.! This is an absolutely amazing platform and it has become my absolute favorite and I’m confident that once you get yours running properly to its maximum performance, it will become your favorite as well! So I like to experiment and try new things so that I can help people out and expand my knowledge and experience. I have ran over 15,000 rounds through my factory Springfield prodigy Magazines without fail! But I wanted to see if I could use Glock and pmag springs in the prodigy tubes because they are almost identical, with the exception that the Glock magazines and pmags have one additional coil in the springs so I have been testing and they work excellence in The Prodigy mags the only downside is you do lose one round with the Springfield baseplate but I have also know that the atlas base plate gives you one extra round also so you could pair those together but mainly I just wanted to know if the Glock magazine springs would be a reliable replacement, because I know most of us have a crap load of Pmags and Glock mags laying around more so Pmags because the price.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

I have another video where I show a comparison between those two springs but I like to test things thoroughly before I recommend anyone doing it so that’s why I haven’t recommended it to anybody yet but I have ran about 240 rounds successfully with the P mag spring

What holster are you running? I’m debating on wether to run a stream-light tlr1hl or spend the money on Surefire x300.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

I recommend the Holoson PID for the 4.25 inch prodigy and surefire x300 for the 5 inch prodigy. I run a bunch of holsters. The one from this video is a Glock 17/ TLR-1 OBW kydex holster from Amazon that fits the prodigy and Holoson PID. I have a few holster videos on my channel. Basically any Glock 17 and TLR 1 holster will fit the prodigy and PiD

@alexp9471

Жыл бұрын

@@americantrucker9813 do you have a duty holster that fits it?

Hey what recoil and main spring are you running? In the prodigy.....I have a 9 and tried an 8# recoil spring but had issues. I threw an EGW disconnector, sear and sear spring. Still having an issue with catching on the disconnector.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Im using voice to text because I’m driving it’s bad sometimes so bare with me so I the factory recoil spring and a aftermarket 17 pound mainspring (that’s actually 12Lbs) from EGW it is worth noting that these main springs you can buy are not always accurate. I received three from EGW that we’re not actually 17 pounds one of them was 22 pounds and one of them was 12 pounds. I will say the 12 pounds.main spring is absolutely my favorite and I have had zero issues with it. I will be making a video about this soon, but I do use a EGW disconnector it is not a big deal if your slide catches on the disconnector, because it is at the rear position of the slide so that alone will not cause issues but you can polish the disconnector carefully until it gives the desired smooth operation but I wouldn’t suggest it unless you have an extra one, because if you takeoff too much material, and the slide does not engage it Your trigger will not reset. If you give me a few days, I will make a video on how to tune The Prodigy specifically how I have turned mine. One of the big things is the extractor if it is out of tune and it is too tight. It will prevent the slide from going fully into battery, and if it is even tighter than that, the next round might not even be able to get underneath of it if it is too loose, then you will have double feedings, because it will not extract the round properly.

@TheNickademas1

Жыл бұрын

@@americantrucker9813 yea the main spring I got from EGW definitely seems pretty light don’t have the means to test it. 100 rounds with the setup I have in now tried a 8lb EGW recoil spring but had a few issues. It feels and shoots a tich better for me with the 8lb recoil spring so I’ll be sure to watch that extractor video and learn how to do that because I got a few stove pipes not failure to battery.

@TheNickademas1

Жыл бұрын

@@americantrucker9813 also I should preface this with I have 1000rounds on the gun it had 2 malfunctions as is from factory within the first 100 rounds. All other issues is after I’ve started messing with it(well because you gotta) have my stock trigger working at 2.5-3lbs. Couldn’t justify spending a lot on something that i feel like isn’t that critical of function more of just aesthetics.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNickademas1 what exactly did you do to get your trigger lighter ? And what I would say about the slide hanging up on the disconnector is the Polish, the disconnector and the disco rail but the biggest thing will be the middle leaf on the sear Springs that controls how much force is on the disconnector so you can take a little weight off of that leaf, and then the slide should push it down easier and reduce the hang up. I prefer a lighter recoil spring, but with less recoil spring you will need to make sure there is no friction and everything is in tune, but I assure you that once you get this gun tuned properly, it is very reliable for a very long time at least 10,000 Rounds before you have to tune it again.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNickademas1 stove pipe is exactly the issues I had within the first couple hundred rounds and it was specifically that extractor.

What pound main spring do you use in your prodigy

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

The factory recoil spring that came with it.

I am not a prodigy hater by any means. I think it is a perfectly fine gun. A solid intro into the 2011 platform. However, it isn't comparable to a Bul Armory or a Staccato and to call it comparable to ANY Atlas is downright insulting. And you know what.....I think Springfield Armory would agree. It's like shooting the prodigy with a gen 3 Glock 17 and saying there is no real difference.

@jessielaird9522

Жыл бұрын

That's the thing. It can be, if tuned properly, just like any other gun. To think otherwise is just snobbish.

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! My friend you know exactly what the deal is with these idiots whom think quality depends on how much money you spend. They just have to validate their overpriced toys

@2ANLA

Жыл бұрын

@@jessielaird9522 So you probably believe that a glock 17 can be tuned to be just as good as a prodigy then???

@americantrucker9813

Жыл бұрын

You were the one that said a Springfield Prodigy cannot even be compared to a Bul armory 2011 copy cat and a Staccato STI 2011. All modular double stack 1911s are a clone of the 30+ year old STI 2011 design they are more than comparable they are little the same design! The only differences being cosmetics and quality. To say something as goofy as and then try to ask a question about apples & oranges shows that your operating based on your feelings & opinions and the Facts don’t matter. Which hey that’s perfectly fine. Live and let live. I don’t care you do you!

@jessielaird9522

Жыл бұрын

@@2ANLA Absolutely. I don't think I stuttered either. Lol. Don't get me wrong, Staccato makes a great product, but I know you're not about to tell me that it's inherently better because of the price. If that were the case you'd see a singular brand dominating the competition pistol circuits, but STI/Staccato's reputation there isn't all that great. So yeah, you're comment was snobbish.