Kapowwwwwww!!!!!!!!

skycrane said:
Even so, would you shoot anything with that much pitting and obvious aging? My god look at that piece shell!
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I agree, that shell looks like crap and I wouldn't have loaded it (personally).

Regarding the unsupported chamber .. I'm no gunsmith but I do know that I don't have any feed problems with my Glock 22 .. so I guess it works. It may mean I don't get as many reloads out of my brass as I might if I replaced my barrel BUT I look at it like this. The cost of a new barrel and the gunsmithing to have it properly installed is far more than what I would spend on replacing my brass after only 10 reloads (for arguments sake) instead of after twenty.
 
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a few things.

the case was perfectly new before it was loaded. so #### off if you think i'm not paying attention to what i feed my guns. it was mega dirty after i picked it up off the floor.

train like you fight, fight like you train. your ####in rights i finished that mag. if that had been a failure in the middle of go - time then you won't catch me looking stupid during a failure. move and get your gun back in the fight. you don't have to agree, but that's how i roll.
 
WithoutWarning said:
For ease of production,
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It wasn't ease of production. Glock got caught off guard, pants down, for share in the LEO market for 40SW. They didn't have a pistol to handle 40SW so they shoe-horned the 40SW round into a frame and feed ramp/barrel set up for 9mm. They should have taken the time and designed a proper Glock polymer frame and barrel to handle the increased pressure of the 40SW cartridge but the LEO contracts couldn't wait.

IMHO finger grooves and double pins in the locking block aren't working. In it's present form......the G22 is the only Glock I will never own.
 
wow, I haven't see CCI Blazer in years, I used to shoot a #### load of that stuff when I lived down south, both in 9mm and .45. Never had that happen though...
 
FN said:
It wasn't ease of production. Glock got caught off guard, pants down, for share in the LEO market for 40SW. They didn't have a pistol to handle 40SW so they shoe-horned the 40SW round into a frame and feed ramp/barrel set up for 9mm. They should have taken the time and designed a proper Glock polymer frame and barrel to handle the increased pressure of the 40SW cartridge but the LEO contracts couldn't wait.
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You know that the first .40 S&W pistol to hit the market was the Glock, right? That they even beat S&W to market?
 
Bartledan said:
You know that the first .40 S&W pistol to hit the market was the Glock, right? That they even beat S&W to market?
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yeah....because they used the G17 9mm frame and feed.......KABOOM
 
I have a similar yet different story - I was shooting a friends norc .45, and the ammo had been reloaded 'a few too many times'. second round and just like manboy, I saw a big flame shoot out the top of the pistol, then a feeling like my face was getting sand blasted. the empty casing didn't have a split like that, just a giant hole in the bottom of the casing.

moral: weat eye protection!!!
 
FN said:
Glock got caught off guard, pants down, for share in the LEO market for 40SW. They didn't have a pistol to handle 40SW so they shoe-horned the 40SW round into a frame and feed ramp/barrel set up for 9mm.
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IIRC, the whole point of developing 40 S&W was to fit the downloaded FBI 10mm into a package that would fit in in smaller framed guns that were originally designed for 9 mm.....
 
manboy said:
the case was perfectly new before it was loaded. so f**k off if you think i'm not paying attention to what i feed my guns. it was mega dirty after i picked it up off the floor.
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Sorry about that, an assumption on my part that it must have looked like crap when you loaded it. I'm obviously not at all familiar with that ammo (so should have shut up, ya I know) and assumed a factory round couldn't have looked good going in if it came out looking like that.
 
Well, seeing as we shot about 30k+ of this ammo last year, this is the first failure, from all of our guns, and all the main calibers, 9 .40 .45

i'm glad your safe, even more happy you finished the drill. You did remember to move though, right

Yeah, next shoot we'll have to look at the alum. cases more, see if there any other cracks.
 
Dragoon said:
IIRC, the whole point of developing 40 S&W was to fit the downloaded FBI 10mm into a package that would fit in in smaller framed guns that were originally designed for 9 mm.....
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Guess Glock didn't spend enough money (or anything?) on R&D.

Glock just slapped a 40SW cal barrel into a G17 frame, called it the G22 and crossed their fingers........so they could beat S&W into the LEO market. Looks like a Glock marketing move that had everthing to do with making money and very little to do with safety. IMO, the G22 still needs a frame up overhaul.
 
manboy said:
a few things.

the case was perfectly new before it was loaded. so f**k off if you think i'm not paying attention to what i feed my guns. it was mega dirty after i picked it up off the floor.
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Wow, go easy, the guy was just asking a question, off yer meds??

manboy said:
train like you fight, fight like you train. your f**kin rights i finished that mag. if that had been a failure in the middle of go - time then you won't catch me looking stupid during a failure. move and get your gun back in the fight. you don't have to agree, but that's how i roll.
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So real-life trainer, if you had a squib during ' go - time' how would you act? So just how many gun fights have you been in???
 
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manboy said:
train like you fight, fight like you train. your f**kin rights i finished that mag. if that had been a failure in the middle of go - time then you won't catch me looking stupid during a failure. move and get your gun back in the fight. you don't have to agree, but that's how i roll.
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um.....

...wow..
 
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