Reloads in a Glock 17? please give me the straight 'dope'

I shoot nothing but reloads. Tens of thousands of them in my G17's.

From trying it myself, G17's and lead bullets are disaster waiting to happen unless you want to clean the barrel every 50 rounds.
 
The Glock barrels are not full case suport barrels.
There is a small portion of the case that is not in the barrel.
The problem is when you hot load your ammo.
If the case fails you will rip the mag out (it will spit it out ),ammo rolling around on the ground and a good powder burn. Buy an after maket barrel and your good to go.
 
tacdriver said:
The Glock barrels are not full case suport barrels.
There is a small portion of the case that is not in the barrel.
The problem is when you hot load your ammo.
If the case fails you will rip the mag out (it will spit it out ),ammo rolling around on the ground and a good powder burn. Buy an after maket barrel and your good to go.
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This has nothing to do with shooting lead bullets through a barrel with ploygonal rifling. Different problems. Shooting lead build through a barrel with ploygonal rifling causes increased barrel pressure, not KB's in the chamber from increased pressure.

You are talking about a reloading issue with hot loads causing increased pressure in the barrel chambers that are not fully suported. Even the aftermarket barrels do not have fully supported barrel chambers but they do have rifling that will allow you to shoot lead bullets.
 
47k rounds of my lead reloads through one of my G-19's and counting. Use of hard alloys, good lube and slower powders reduces any leading to levels the same as or less than with any other handgun I own.

Auggie D.
 
I was shooting reloads (cmj's from frontier) +p from my g17 oem barrel. But then went to a ported rifled barrel from wolf, and have been shooting the same reloads for years. no problems. I think, for your peace of mind, if you are concerned about shooting unjacketed out your oem, is to buy a rifled match barrel and shoot away. Run a few jacketed rounds in there every so often to clean out the barrel.
 
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