Enachos
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Took my fiancé and the new Glock 27 out for a day of shooting today and to my surprise had 3 malfunctions. Shot 50 rounds of 180 gr. American Eagle with no problems and 50 rounds of Winchester (white box) with a total of 3 malfunctions. I believe it to be a ammo problem... Here's why: The first malfunction occurred while my fiancé was shooting. She shot about 3 or 4 rounds, then "click". Figured it was a dud so she handed me the pistol for clearing. I removed the magazine and tried to rack the slide back but it was stuck. Very stuck... So stuck I had to get the range officer to take a look at it. So anyways, about 10 minutes later, the R.O. walks back up to me with the G27's slide locked open and the bullet in question in his other hand. He proceeded to show me that the firing pin did it's job but the primer failed to ignite the powder in the bullet. I had never seen anything like it. I just don't understand what caused the slide to lock closed the way it did... Any input on that???
So anyways, I get back to my fiancé, loaded her up a mag and told her to let it rip. About 4 or 5 rounds into that magazine, malfunction number 2 happens... She fires a round and then... A FTF. The bullet that was next in the firing order got hung up and the slide failed to completely go into battery. So I remove the magazine, eject that round, inspect it, and set it aside. Couldn't see anything visually. I re-insert the mag. Rack a round in the chamber and BOOM. I can only assume something was wrong with that bullet because I tried 3 time to get it to chamber it and it never could.
Malfunction #3 happened shortly after... I was going through a mag and then
"click"... Again. I clear the weapon. Inspect the primer on the bullet and the Glock did it's job in striking it. Seems maybe it was a bad primer. Again, I set that bullet to the side.
What's the deal here? Is it my Glock or the ammo? What would cause my slide to lock back the way it did? And why would that other round not chamber in my firearm???? Is Winchester's QC going down???
So anyways, I get back to my fiancé, loaded her up a mag and told her to let it rip. About 4 or 5 rounds into that magazine, malfunction number 2 happens... She fires a round and then... A FTF. The bullet that was next in the firing order got hung up and the slide failed to completely go into battery. So I remove the magazine, eject that round, inspect it, and set it aside. Couldn't see anything visually. I re-insert the mag. Rack a round in the chamber and BOOM. I can only assume something was wrong with that bullet because I tried 3 time to get it to chamber it and it never could.
Malfunction #3 happened shortly after... I was going through a mag and then
"click"... Again. I clear the weapon. Inspect the primer on the bullet and the Glock did it's job in striking it. Seems maybe it was a bad primer. Again, I set that bullet to the side.
What's the deal here? Is it my Glock or the ammo? What would cause my slide to lock back the way it did? And why would that other round not chamber in my firearm???? Is Winchester's QC going down???