Jenrick
Member
In my quest to find the weapon I'll be carrying during the academy and beyond I've been trying alot of differnt pistols. One of them was a G17, that was fantastically dirty. Now I know that Glocks are supposed to be able to work just fine uncleaned for thousands of rounds with out any problems. My personal G22 has never had any problems, and I don't clean it more often then every hundred or two rounds.
The G17 I rented would do the following (in no particular order):
Fail to lock the slide back at the end of the mag
Fail to chamber a round after firing, the round would eject and the slide would appear to fully cycle, but round in the mag would nose dive into the feed ramp.
Failure to extract
Double feed
Stovepipe
Got a malf/failure on pretty much every round after the first 10.
My question is: Does the lighter recoil of the 9mm cartridge mean that the weapon must be kept cleaner then a Glock chamber in larger caliber? Or did I just managed to find a bad pistol to rent? Is the amount of accumulated gunk in the weapon keeping it from working properly due to the smaller cartridge, or would I have found the same thing in a similarly dirty G21/22?
Thanks for your time,
-Jenrick
The G17 I rented would do the following (in no particular order):
Fail to lock the slide back at the end of the mag
Fail to chamber a round after firing, the round would eject and the slide would appear to fully cycle, but round in the mag would nose dive into the feed ramp.
Failure to extract
Double feed
Stovepipe
Got a malf/failure on pretty much every round after the first 10.
My question is: Does the lighter recoil of the 9mm cartridge mean that the weapon must be kept cleaner then a Glock chamber in larger caliber? Or did I just managed to find a bad pistol to rent? Is the amount of accumulated gunk in the weapon keeping it from working properly due to the smaller cartridge, or would I have found the same thing in a similarly dirty G21/22?
Thanks for your time,
-Jenrick