Posted: 3/30/2008 4:48:42 PM EDT
| So I took my new G17 out today for the first time and shot 200 rounds of 147 grain Remington UMC's. Things well pretty well for the most part, but out of the 200 rounds 3 or 4 times the brass failed to fully ejected getting caught-up inbetween the slide and the end of the barrel. Im not sure if this will have an impact or not, but I should mention I am forced to use 10 round mags here in Canada. But what could be causing this? Is it something Im doing wrong? A problem with the gun? Or possibly just the quality of the ammo? Although I thought that the ammo was of a pretty decent level. Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions. Thanks. |
It could possibly your shooting style. I know of a few people who limp-wrist glocks and have stovepipe jams because of it. Make sure you grip the pistol tightly, but you don't need a death grip. This is just a suggestion, your problem may be in the pistol itself, and not user error. But before you call it an actual malfunction go back to the range. ETA: Damn beat me to it. |
| There is a good possibility that it was my fault. I have been shooting 40 and 45 for the past little while and in my opinion the 9mm actually seemed to be more snappy. Next time out I will try to tighten things up on my part and Im sure that will eliminate the problem. But I will say one thing for sure Im definately glad I bought a GLOCK. But, Im guessing Im not going to get a whole lot of disagreement since this is a glock thread. |
| Clean weapon. Lock wrist and try again. The gun is so light it does that if you don't have a proper grip and arm position. 10 round mags mean nothing. California USA has had 10 round mags for quite some time now and no one has had problems with it jamming Glocks up at all. Keep practicing and you will refine and find a technique you are comfy with. |
| sounds like a grip issue, when I bought my G23 I went to the range and fired a few boxes no problem the young guy next to me had also just gotten himself a G19, we swapped for a few round but his 19 FTE x2 and FTfire x1 come to find out he was using reloads which were improperly made. |
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I pretty much had the same problem last weekend. I usually shoot .40, but I picked up some 9MM UMC and shot about 500rnds through my Wolf conversion barrel i just bought. I had 3 FTE's just like yours. The brass didn't seem to clear. I figured it was the conversion barrel, or my ejector (.40 cal), but since yours is new, and mine has never had any problem, the only common between both is the UMC. I did notice that the powder was really dirty, but I figured "ball powder". I guess I'll try some other ammo to find out. |
| I don't know. I intentionally limp wrist my glock 26 and 34 when testing for reliability and have never had a jam with either. Sounds silly, but I have fired both at all angles, right side up, upside down, sideways, everyway... and no jams with WWB and 147 gr federal highshoks and winchester 147 gr hp. |
| My uncle is a retired sherrif. His department ran some tests for stovepipe issues. In the end, they told them to limp wrist just a bit. It was a compact .45. I think the fullsize guns are more prone to it. The compacts, or subcompacts, have a different spring assembly. |