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Brass conditions when shot through Glock factory barrels ?
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I've loaded my Gen3 G27 too hot, to the point it malfunctioned. The brass was still not grossly bulged (at least nothing obvious to the naked eye).
I have seen some badly bulged 40SW brass. It must have been shot out of a SIG. J/K. Perhaps a Gen1 or Gen2 Glock.
I've debulged pickups. Never yet had to debulge my own Glock brass in any caliber. And I have them all.
Brass longevity? Will tell you when I figure that out. I've never lost a 40 case, but I don't shoot it all that much. I have cracked a couple 9mm case necks out of thousands, and probably 5-6 rounds or reloading.
My Glocks love cast bullets in all calibers. But I have to screen out a lot of the thicker headstamps to load cast in my G27. My Glock 40SW chamber is too tight at the casemouth.
I have seen some badly bulged 40SW brass. It must have been shot out of a SIG. J/K. Perhaps a Gen1 or Gen2 Glock.
I've debulged pickups. Never yet had to debulge my own Glock brass in any caliber. And I have them all.
Brass longevity? Will tell you when I figure that out. I've never lost a 40 case, but I don't shoot it all that much. I have cracked a couple 9mm case necks out of thousands, and probably 5-6 rounds or reloading.
My Glocks love cast bullets in all calibers. But I have to screen out a lot of the thicker headstamps to load cast in my G27. My Glock 40SW chamber is too tight at the casemouth.
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When I started loading in 1970, there was no internet. I learned by reading all I could which included various gun magazines, many loading manuals and of course by actually doing it. I guess we got the internet in the mid '90s and suddenly all sorts of information was flowing. The "information superhighway" was a common expression in those days.
What it amounted to is that for 25 years, I did all sorts of "old school" stuff with great success. Just as an example, a more recent thing was cast boolits through Glock barrels; first Glock in 1991. By the time I'd learned it was a bad thing to do, I had shot many thousands of cast boolits in several Glocks. Holy Smokes I was courting disaster all those years and all along I was saying it was just simply success. Really ... I still think that way.
Since about 1975 I've been loading 45ACP. For many years I was strictly revolver with .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum being probably 90% of what I loaded. I did load for 9mm Luger and 45 ACP way back then. The good Lord only knows how I managed to get those magnum rounds chambered in my revolvers as everything I loaded was very heavy ... at max or so close the difference didn't matter. Back then I was both immortal and indestructible so heavy eargusplittenloudenboomers were no problem. In fact I relished the buck and roar of a big magnum ... I still do. But if ever there were cases that should have bulged and stuck in revolvers those magnums should have, but they didn't.
Now I'm being told the real problem with bulged cases is with revolvers. Well, I guess I've been living a Class 1 Emboogerment all these years. My 45ACP stuff, has never had a problem in any of my revolvers so obviously the internet has caught me in a paradoxical situation again: I couldn't have had the successes I did and can't still be having them today. I'm just mystified.
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Yes I've found that some .45 ACP brass that was shot through a Glock has problems going into a tight revolver cylinder unless the bulge is removed, while at the same time it cycle through an autoloader with a spring loaded slide.
What kind of Glock or if it was some other gun, I don't know. I never owned a Glock.
What kind of Glock or if it was some other gun, I don't know. I never owned a Glock.
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I have a gen 4 Glock 26 in 9mm. The brass would only last two firings at most and then I would get case head separation. Each firing would produce the Glock smile. I tried a new spring (current one only had 1000 rounds) but no help. Same result with a storm lake barrel.
I have three other glocks (40 and 10mm) with no problems. But this 9mm is really hard on brass.
I have three other glocks (40 and 10mm) with no problems. But this 9mm is really hard on brass.
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