ny32182
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And right after I got done proclaiming the G19 to be perfect from the factory...
I had what I believe to be a weird malfunction today at IDPA. 3rd Gen 19 bought NIB this year, all factory stock, all mags are same age or newer than the gun.
One of the stages was the classic "el prez" drill. Three targets, limit 2 shots each, reload, two more shots each.
So, I loaded six rounds each into two magazines, or so I thought. Buzzer goes... bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.. reload... bang, bang, bang, bang, bang... SLIDELOCK. I only got five shots out of the second magazine, down 8 on the target.
Could have sworn I checked those mags twice. I started looking around on the ground, and sure enough, I found a round identical to the ones I was shooting at my feet. I believe I had six rounds loaded, and somehow, the last one popped out of the mag and ejected (or fell out of the port, rather) upon extraction of the fifth shot. How this is physically possible I don't know, but I'm 99.9% sure there were six rounds in that mag.
On any other non-limited stage, if the same thing happened, I don't think I ever would have noticed, as I don't really count rounds during the stage... I just would have reloaded and moved on.
I started checking my brass after that. Uncharacteristically, the case mouths all have a dent in them. On some, it is fairly pronounced.
I spoke with one of the more experienced Glock shooters, and he thinks that my ammo (factory Speer GD 124gr +P "short barrel") could have been accellerating the slide too fast in concert with my stock recoil spring, jarring the frame at the back of the ejection stroke, and slamming the case mouth of the spent brass between the slide and barrel on the way forward before it fully ejects.
Does this sound plausible? I guess so, if the factory recoil spring is weak enough. Something is causing the dents in the brass. They are not there when I'm shooting my normal practice ammo; WWB. Could the Speer ammo be slamming the slide into the frame hard enough to knock the last round out of the mag? I don't know; I find it pretty hard to believe, but anything is possible I guess.
Opinions? I can try to post some pics of the brass if it would help. I don't see anything that looks to me like obvious overpressure in the primers. Thanks.
I had what I believe to be a weird malfunction today at IDPA. 3rd Gen 19 bought NIB this year, all factory stock, all mags are same age or newer than the gun.
One of the stages was the classic "el prez" drill. Three targets, limit 2 shots each, reload, two more shots each.
So, I loaded six rounds each into two magazines, or so I thought. Buzzer goes... bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.. reload... bang, bang, bang, bang, bang... SLIDELOCK. I only got five shots out of the second magazine, down 8 on the target.
Could have sworn I checked those mags twice. I started looking around on the ground, and sure enough, I found a round identical to the ones I was shooting at my feet. I believe I had six rounds loaded, and somehow, the last one popped out of the mag and ejected (or fell out of the port, rather) upon extraction of the fifth shot. How this is physically possible I don't know, but I'm 99.9% sure there were six rounds in that mag.
On any other non-limited stage, if the same thing happened, I don't think I ever would have noticed, as I don't really count rounds during the stage... I just would have reloaded and moved on.
I started checking my brass after that. Uncharacteristically, the case mouths all have a dent in them. On some, it is fairly pronounced.
I spoke with one of the more experienced Glock shooters, and he thinks that my ammo (factory Speer GD 124gr +P "short barrel") could have been accellerating the slide too fast in concert with my stock recoil spring, jarring the frame at the back of the ejection stroke, and slamming the case mouth of the spent brass between the slide and barrel on the way forward before it fully ejects.
Does this sound plausible? I guess so, if the factory recoil spring is weak enough. Something is causing the dents in the brass. They are not there when I'm shooting my normal practice ammo; WWB. Could the Speer ammo be slamming the slide into the frame hard enough to knock the last round out of the mag? I don't know; I find it pretty hard to believe, but anything is possible I guess.
Opinions? I can try to post some pics of the brass if it would help. I don't see anything that looks to me like obvious overpressure in the primers. Thanks.
