diff --git a/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py b/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
index d5fa9d0..ca0c498 100644
--- a/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/attacks/gist_lookup/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import re
-import sys
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
@@ -126,11 +125,6 @@ def github_gist_search_main(query, **kwargs):
     verbose = kwargs.get("verbose", False)
     page_set = kwargs.get("page_set", 5)
 
-    # there seems to be a recursion issue in this function,
-    # so until I get this figured out, we're going to change
-    # the maximum recursion of the system when we get here
-    sys.setrecursionlimit(1500)
-
     try:
         lib.core.settings.logger.info(lib.core.settings.set_color(
             "searching a total of {} pages of Gists for '{}'".format(