Glock Malfunction

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Anyone recognize the logo on that barrel? It looks like the parts that failed are aftermarket.

I owned a Glock 30 that wouldn't feed hollow points but I can't make my G19 stop for anything except bad ammo. I fed it a 380 once, which fired and hit the target but didn't cycle the slide.
 
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What would happen if a Glock Fanboi became a crossfitting vegan libertarian....would the universe implode due to the confusion over what to talk about first?
The conversation would likely turn to CZ's.
 
Anyone recognize the logo on that barrel? It looks like the parts that failed are aftermarket.

Stormlake, the moment I saw it I knew it'd be blamed. You can blow up any gun if you try hard enough.

My wife can make them 3-point jam pretty well somedays with a factory RSA.
I've seen at least one 42 that couldn't make it through a mag clean no matter who shot it.
Seems like my 17 did something dumb a time or two that wasn't ammo related.
 
Shoot any gun enough and it will jam eventually. Although I will say that 99% of the issues I ever get with my Glocks is ammo related.
 
Geezer and I are in a unique situation. We see LOTSA guns, of all makes. We see LOTSA ammo of all makes being consumed in large quantities. I will have to say, I have never, in all my years here on the range, seen a Glock pistol choke.......that could not be immediately traced to something NOT gun related. Bill Wilson wrote 30 years ago that he had people come to him and spend 1,000s of dollars and then hunt HIGH and LOW for a bullet it would not feed.
 
Geezer and I are in a unique situation. We see LOTSA guns, of all makes. We see LOTSA ammo of all makes being consumed in large quantities. I will have to say, I have never, in all my years here on the range, seen a Glock pistol choke.......that could not be immediately traced to something NOT gun related. Bill Wilson wrote 30 years ago that he had people come to him and spend 1,000s of dollars and then hunt HIGH and LOW for a bullet it would not feed.

Don't know how "unique" that is, as many people on here are ROs and shooters who compete and see many tens of thousands of rounds fired from any number of guns including many glocks.
 
Not the most accurate handgun I have but darn if the thing just keeps going and going and going.......
 
Glocks have three problems:

1. A "safety" that isn't.
2. Ugly as sin.
3. Annoying fanbois
 
To me with my minimum experience of 40 years of competitive shooting there is a BIG difference between a malfunction and a parts breakage. I was regional IPSC champion in the mid 80s, before some of you were probably old enough to buy a gun. I have been successful in all handgun sports except 2700. I own my own range and live on it. It is fairly accepted to be as nice as any in this county. Have been able to shoot daily for the last 15 years and do. So I think I can pass the how much and how good are you test.
Now to the question, If a system loads, fires, extracts, ejects, and repeats this cycle for several thousand cycles without a malfunction, it is indeed a well thought out system. I promise you if you continue to do it long enough, you will have a Malfunction, or maybe even a parts breakage. There is no perfect system that I have encountered,BUT ,some by brand, are better than others. We see LESS troubles with Glocks, Sigs, and Berettas than other brands. None of them have ever been proven perfect here. I am not a Glock fan in all their models. I have in the past owned all models by calibers but the Long and slotted ones. They usually get traded off along the way. All knowledge does not flow from this fountain. I do think I have earned my opinion instead of being told by someone who knows nothing about me to "shoot more"
 
I appreciate your reply. I am glad you are happy to be here. I suppose some how your experiences are not statistically extreme?
 
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Can you expand on this a little?

Is it not running well?
Pml prefix every other one was rough as a cob as can be seen and triggers were awful, failure to eject. Stove piping etc. Glock basically said send them back we'll send others. Not that easy with agencies. I advise people gen 3 was the epitome for glocks.
 
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Glock perfection was likely the cause!
 
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I really did have a Glock malfunction/break with the first Glock (a G21) I owned. The end of the trigger return spring broke (per Glock) and I had to return it to Glock. This was pre-1994 Assault Wepons Ban and when pistol was returned to me I had two brand new mags and some Glock swag in the box. It has been absolutely trouble free since then.

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I for one have never owned a glock. I plan on getting a 19 to play around with some day, but for some reason I just don't like them...yet. I've always shot 1911's, sigs, cz, and springfields better. I think it's the more extreme grip angle, for me it does not point natural like every other gun I have held. Maybe with more practice with a glock it will become natural, but for those of you with experience with glocks, is it hard to switch back to different grip angles after being used to glocks?
 
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