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Old November 11th, 2012, 18:48   #123
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What is the best length for the buffer to be? Is it better to use a hard material or something like piece of rubber?
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usually buffers are installed to short stroke the gun and reduce the felt recoil. if this is your goal, about four buffers will achieve this. Three depending on how thick they are.

if you're going by measurements, around 1.5 to 2 cm will achieve this.

generally as long as the gun can trip the disconnector and reset the hammer you can put as many as you want. but if it's too less it wont do much.
I forgot to mention it also depends on how stiff your recoil spring is. The stiffer ones don't need that much buffers. SOME of THe Shooter's Design ones, as a example, don't require any buffers at all as the spring is too stiff and will short stroke the pistol all on it's own.
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