New from a store, or gently used?
New usually means no problems, while gently used can mean previous owner messing with it, and selling it for a reason.
glock failure
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New from a store, or gently used?
New usually means no problems, while gently used can mean previous owner messing with it, and selling it for a reason.
Wanna give it away ? LOL ....
An 80% failure rate is not an indication of a gun that doesn't work well...it's an indication that something is TOTALLY wrong, like "it's got a .40 barrel crammed in somehow" or "it was reassembled without the extractor".
This is not a matter of "wrong recoil spring assembly". The ones with problem RSAs, and problem extractors, and problem slide geometry, still ran around 99%. The complaint was that they did not run 99.95% or better. Yours runs at 20%. That is not the equivalent of buying a car that's a lemon, that's the equivalent of buying a car and finding it stalls whenever you exceed 1500 rpm. Either you're doing something REALLY wrong, or the gun is.
The wild variance of problems makes me suspect you are not holding on to the gun correctly, but that's virtually impossible to diagnose with the information provided.
What is your experience level? How many rounds would you say you have put through pistols over the years?
If the 100 rounds from the other day are most of them, the problem is probably your grip.
If you have got 2000 rounds through various pistols over the last ten years and never noticed anything weird, then there is something seriously wrong with your pistol.
This is not a matter of "wrong recoil spring assembly". The ones with problem RSAs, and problem extractors, and problem slide geometry, still ran around 99%. The complaint was that they did not run 99.95% or better. Yours runs at 20%. That is not the equivalent of buying a car that's a lemon, that's the equivalent of buying a car and finding it stalls whenever you exceed 1500 rpm. Either you're doing something REALLY wrong, or the gun is.
The wild variance of problems makes me suspect you are not holding on to the gun correctly, but that's virtually impossible to diagnose with the information provided.
What is your experience level? How many rounds would you say you have put through pistols over the years?
If the 100 rounds from the other day are most of them, the problem is probably your grip.
If you have got 2000 rounds through various pistols over the last ten years and never noticed anything weird, then there is something seriously wrong with your pistol.
Geeks? We are just stating documented facts. Sorry if the truth hurts.
While this is true, Glocks are designed to run quite dry compared to other pistols.
I would think the most likely issue is the RSA seated wrong on reassembly. Second is likely limp wristing. Sounds like something is causing the slide to short cycle.
Usually if the recoil spring isn't seated on the second notch on the barrel in the gen4's they bind up hard when you re-assbmle the slide. That's my personal experience anyway. I've seen my G17 Gen4 stovepipe multiple times from one magazine in the hands of a novice shooter limp wristing it. I took it back, fired 10 rounds from the same mag and no FTE.
That's what I was thinking, too.
Something wasn't installed correctly. I highly doubt user error. Recol spring in backwards? Loose? On the wrong barrel notch?
Glocks are extremely reliable, equal to Sigs and HK in reliability and something like that needs investigating.
^ what he said lol.
It take a lot of hard running to break a Glock unless you really try hard.
I'm gonna guess the OP will eventually find out it was something simple, or we'll find a really cheap Glock 34 on the EE that one of us will find something simple wrong with. I hesitate to blame to OP for the malfunctions, that has always been on failing of Glock in my mind. It should not take much strength, training or skill to operate a combat pistol, it's meant to be used when you might be injured, scared and shaking, limp wristing might be considered part of it's standard operating environment.
A long time ago I owned a Glock 17, Sig 226 and SW 4506. While I never had a problem shooting either one of them, my cousin who I took to the range had similar experience with my Glock 17 to the one described by the original poster. I understand that my cousin was a new shooter and was probably not holding it 100% properly, but using the same technique he was able to shoot both Sig 226 and SW 4506 without a single problem. I do not understand why it is acceptable for a handgun to be so sensitive to a shooter's technique. I assume that statistically Glock is probably very reliable handgun, but my experience with it was not very positive.
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