Hey there,
I finally managed to shoot my new Glock 19, generation 4, yesterday. It was to replace my annoying CZ 75 Shadow, which has a history of FTEs. And so I was quite surprised when after only some 30 shots (just after starting with mag 3, which contained reloads, the first two were factory loads), I got my first jam on a Glock!
A cartridge got stuck in the chamber and the slide would not lock. After applying a bit more force than I wanted to, I managed to move the slide and eject the cartridge. It was one of my reloads. It was simply to wide at the back, so it did not chamber properly.
It is not a problem now that I know, but it was simply unexpected: I expected Glocks to have the biggest chamber possible to work with all kinds of ammunition, even slightly out-of-spec ones. As a reloader, I was more afraid that the Glock might enlarge the cases too much so I'd have to recalibrate them completely all the time, therefore reducing their life time.
So this comes as a complete surprise. The gen 4 Glock 19 has a tighter chamber than both competition guns that my friend and I tried, and those were a CZ75 Shadow and a Sig Sauer P226, where those loads have been working fine for over a year.
Has anyone else experienced that? I did not manage to find any posting about this, but being German, I might have used the wrong technical term when searching.
I finally managed to shoot my new Glock 19, generation 4, yesterday. It was to replace my annoying CZ 75 Shadow, which has a history of FTEs. And so I was quite surprised when after only some 30 shots (just after starting with mag 3, which contained reloads, the first two were factory loads), I got my first jam on a Glock!
A cartridge got stuck in the chamber and the slide would not lock. After applying a bit more force than I wanted to, I managed to move the slide and eject the cartridge. It was one of my reloads. It was simply to wide at the back, so it did not chamber properly.
It is not a problem now that I know, but it was simply unexpected: I expected Glocks to have the biggest chamber possible to work with all kinds of ammunition, even slightly out-of-spec ones. As a reloader, I was more afraid that the Glock might enlarge the cases too much so I'd have to recalibrate them completely all the time, therefore reducing their life time.
So this comes as a complete surprise. The gen 4 Glock 19 has a tighter chamber than both competition guns that my friend and I tried, and those were a CZ75 Shadow and a Sig Sauer P226, where those loads have been working fine for over a year.
Has anyone else experienced that? I did not manage to find any posting about this, but being German, I might have used the wrong technical term when searching.