Jammed Glock ???

[neilin]

The best way to prevent jams in a semi-auto is to never shoot it.

Which revolver do you favor? Revolvers will jam.

 

[neilin]

I don't claim any expertise about Glocks or about the mechanics of guns in general. What got me to first look at a Glock was a video by Hickock45 where he said that the only brand of gun that he would trust his life to, brand new and right out of the box, was Glock because of its outstanding reliability. I own two Glocks and while I have not fired thousands of rounds through them I have fired several hundred of different types, brands, etc. and have never had a single failure of any kind. That is why my primary home defense gun is a Glock 17 and my primary EDC is now a Glock 26.

If it works, and you like it, that’s the ticket.

 

[Johnnu2]

LIMP WRIST.............. does it all the time (as said above...) It ain't the GLOCK

IMHO,

J.

 

[kmoore]

Bottom line, we won't know unless the person came on here and explained it and how it was fixed.
Limp Wrist? Yep, it happens and that's 1 reason in Oregon the police Q made the shooter fire weak hand (or non primary hand) in 2 stages. One two handed and one single handed. Shooters were taught yearly how to clear a jam. Once and awhile a limp wrist weak hand shooters gun would jam.
There was no raise your hand and start over, they had to clear the jam and keep shooting.
Tap,( hit bottom of mag to make sure it is seated) Rack,( pull slide back. release slide to return it into battery) Go, (shoot)
Double trouble (gun still won't fire) Rack, rack, strip mag out, new mag in and go.
Few new shooters limp wristed strong hand firing and caused a jam, but it happened.

 

[eveled]

His gun jammed. Bullet in th chamber, just about 1/4 inch out of battery, less actually. Just a little bit.

The instructor tried to get the slide open? But nothing moved at all.

No way a limp wrist causes that failure. Locked up solid?

 

[OneShotRuger]

A Buddy of mine made one of my 19's jam. His fault. Was limp wristing it like a limp noodle!!!

Had students limp wrist. Watched video in SloMotion. Most obvious then.
Adjusted grips and corrected grip problems solved.

 

[Yaworski]

Which revolver do you favor? Revolvers will jam.

Never had it happen. Maybe Ruger revolvers are prone to jams. Short of a catastrophic mechanical failure, I've never seen a revolver "jam."

 

[peachhead]

Never had it happen. Maybe Ruger revolvers are prone to jams. Short of a catastrophic mechanical failure, I've never seen a revolver "jam."

I don't think I've seen one jam, but I've seen 'em lock up for several reasons. Usually ammo related.

 

[arfmel]

“Even a FNG to shooting would not load a round like that in a magazine.....you would think.”

Yeah, you would think. If they were paying attention. Lots of people don’t seem to be able to do that, though.

Then there’s the ones who don’t want to dispose of a cartridge because they’re “so expensive “.

 

[usmc69]

Back when I was teaching the M1911 in Combat Pistol courses for the military, I discussed gripping the weapon. To show that you did not have to have a death grip on the pistol, I held the grip with two fingers as I shot. The pistol went bang every time.

 

[Cofaler]

Possibly a defective cartridge. I’ve seen a factory cartridge that had the case folded over as the bullet was seated. Like this:

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We used to see that when I was shooting a lot of handgun. Usually WWB. I wouldn't call it 'common', but it did happen. Out of a group of around 30 guys who shot weekly for many years, the large majority shot Glocks, all calibers and many different models, shooting reloads with many different powder/bullet loads, and a lot of lead bullets. VERY rarely did anyone experience a malfunction, and I don't think any of us cleaned them or did any kind of maintenance. A lot of guys tried other guns at first and almost all ended up getting Glocks. I started with a Kimber Custom II. I got really good at mag changes and malfunction drills with that POS, and that is what drove me to Glock and haven't looked back. XDs were coming around then, a few guys shot them and they did ok.

A buddy shot his 1911 there for awhile and reluctantly broke down and bought a G17. First day he showed up with it he was still on the fence about it. We all gave him a couple rounds of whatever we were shooting that day, and he loaded his magazines randomly from 'the pile'. It was comical because of the differences in the report, recoil, etc but he did well in the stage and never had a malfunction.

I had a case head separation with factory reloads once in my G17 Gen2, I got a face full of gas, and it blew the mag out the bottom of the gun. Fields stripped the gun, found nothing wrong, put that magazine back in the gun and finished shooting it.

I find a lot of guys who say they don't like Glocks aren't basing it on real world experience but on anecdotal second hand info, and when I drill down with them they really can't explain or support their position and that is totally fine. Glock grips over all suck in my opinion but I have learned to shoot them and have gotten used to them, I have smaller hands and the G48 is the best fitting stock Glock grip for me by far. Given their performance, versatility, simplicity, ease of maintenance, and cost they are a tough platform to beat