Once fired brass in a Glock?

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I want to get a general consensus of how people are reloading for Glocks, and if your using fired brass.
Mine is a gen 2 Glock 22. It is new to me and I would like to reload for it.
I have decapped and sized about 200 brass and any that were bulged or didn't go through the sizer nicely were tossed away.

My start load will be 4.0Gr of Titegroup on a 180Gr Campro TC Bullet.

Should I use the Brass or not?
 
I am plan to purchase an aftermarket barrel for my Gen 4 Glock 22. I already have an IGB 40-9 conversion. Match chamber barrels will be much easier on brass (after multiple reloads).

Gen 2 Glock 22's have very poor chamber support.

I also decided to stick with 165gr due to the many articles on the dangers of bullet setback with 180gr. I am sure someone will be along to mock me for this decision.
 
my Gen2 Model 17 sees only fired brass, mostly range pickups with an unknown number of firings. I don't hesitate to shoot those reloads in my gun.

BUT, the Gen2 Model 22 is probably the most notorious of all Glock generations/models for poor chamber support and kabooms. There is no doubt that many millions of reloads have been fired through many thousands of those guns, but I would watch that combination much more closely than I do mine.
 
Some report the phenomena of "Glock Bulge" referring to a bulge created at the base of the brass due to notoriously loose chamber dimensions in Glocks.

For that reason, Glocks are very forgiving when it comes to used brass.

wrt not using cast bullets...Glock issued a cya statement not to use cast bullets in their polygonal bbls because someone reported excessive leading eventually causing a bbl rupture and a law suit.

I have shot a bajillion rounds of cast ammo through my Glock without issue.
 
use a lee de bulging tool from Lee. you can use it on a loaded or non loaded rounds. it's a must when reloading brass fired from a glock 10mm 40 or 45 cap
 
The Glock .40 bulge problem was caused by two things, thin brass and the older type feed ramps. The cases were made thicker and the feed ramps were changed as in the photo below.

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If your cases do not look like below, then you do not have the Glock bulge problem and its safe to reload them.

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bigedp51 said:
The Glock .40 bulge problem was caused by two things, thin brass and the older type feed ramps. The cases were made thicker and the feed ramps were changed as in the photo below.

CaseSupport2-1_zpsb7ee6216.jpg


If your cases do not look like below, then you do not have the Glock bulge problem and its safe to reload them.

glock-brass_zps1in2work.jpg
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The cases do not look as bad as that example. My Gen 2 dates to 1993 so I do have the massive undercut at the feed ramp.
 
I'm with Kryogen buy a new barrel or see if Glock will replace the barrel.

The problem with reloading the badly bulged cases is they weaken and split at the bulge as pictured below.

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A bulge buster is a fix for a problem that should be solved by itself. BY that I mean, replace the defective barrel if you want to reload your brass.
 
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