I have read about that modification, but like others here I have not experienced a broken handspring.....yet. Fingers needs reliability in his guns as he shoots a lot of events a year. Many years ago, I bought a used ROA and for a while it was locking up every 2-3 shots. Then I had to take the cylinder out, put it back in, and then repeat the process. I got tired of that and tore the gun down to find that hand spring/plunger was very dirty and rusty and causing the action to bind. I cleaned up those parts, lubed them and everything works great now. So if you do that mod, make sure to clean and lube that spring every once in a while.