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Got a Glock, now what?
- Thread starter MJM
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ha ha . He said G19 not G22
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Jose
I pour tons of my reloads through my Glocks on a regular basis and have no trouble whatsoever. I also carry 9mm +P+ ammo in my G19.
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You might wear out a recoil spring faster... BFD. The 9mm Glocks can take some of the hottest ammo out there no problem. -Mike
I pour tons of my reloads through my Glocks on a regular basis and have no trouble whatsoever. I also carry 9mm +P+ ammo in my G19.
-Mike
It's not recommended so when your glock goes boom not warranty.
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So what?
Every manufacturer says "no reloads" and "frowns upon" +P ammo. (With the exception of HK in the latter case).
"The Warranty" is the lamest excuse ever for not wanting to use reloads or +P ammo in a handgun.
Further, It's pretty hard to actually blow up a 9mm Glock. The whole KB thing in general is overrated, especially when dealing with Glocks that aren't chambered in .40 S+W. (There are more Glock KBs in .40 S+W than all the other calibers put together. )
-Mike
This. Shoot it, shoot it, shoot it and then shoot it some more. It will keep on running. Go ahead with reloads and just clean it after each range trip. The Glock factory recommends not to use reloads if you don't know who made them. Even if you do, a mistake can be made and a reloaded cartridge may either have a light or heavy powder charge in it. Good luck and have fun with it.
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Jose
Bullshit. You could not be more wrong.
J
Jose
Funny I am looking at the owner's manual of my Glock 17 and can't find your "recommendations" in there.
Shoot the hell out of it, leave it alone expect for maybe changing the sights if you want to or not. That is the only modification I made to mine, I went with XS Big Dot sights. Best gunfighting sights out there IMHO. Shoot it and shoot it some, eats all ammo equally well, wolf included and shoot it some more and get yourself some professional training. I can't stress that enough, take a good fighting pistol class somewhere, you won't regret it. Enjoy and oh yeah if you shoot it a lot change the recoil spring every New Years as preventative maintenance ($20?) and you will have no worries.
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wolf223
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Jose
Like someone else said, the same stupid boilerplate that every gun mfg puts in their manuals.
Their warranty is a year anyway and it ain't worth the paper it's written on.
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Jose
Being the engineer that I am, I decided to empirically test this oft repeated bit of internet "wisdom".
You know what I found? The myth is bullshit.
The story goes that lead builds up so fast and so much in polygonally rifled barrels that eventually chamber pressure spikes and the pistol kabooms.
After shooting 150 rounds of lead ammo through my Glock 17 and checking the rifling under a strong light every 50 rounds I found that the only lead buildup is within 1/2 of the muzzle (where pressure is the lowest), did not get worse the more you shot, and that there was zero lead buildup just ahead of the chamber (which is what would cause a dangerous pressure spike).
The internet is known as the errornet for good reason......
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J
Jose
Except sights
the only thing I would do is swap the trigger out.
this is my personal pref. in liking the smooth trigger from a G17/G22 vs. that of the serrated one on the sub-compact and compact glocks...
-other than that, shoot the crap out of it and be happy!![[smile]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/001.gif "Smile [smile]")
my preference as well, not a fan of the ribbed trigger face on the compact's trigger. love my smooth trigger.
It's not completely a myth. If the bullets are soft and/or improperly sized, they
can lead the piss out of the barrel.
That said, if done right it's not an issue. A friend uses fairly hot .40 S+W
lead loads through his G22, and has never had a problem and probably has put
thousands of the things down the barrel. Then again, he knows what he's
doing, too.
Glock just "bans" it because its an easy screw up for a toolbag to make, and they
can't be sure of the bullet quality with every mom and pop reloader out there selling
lead smeg reloads.
-Mike
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Jose
That is not a Glock-unique problem, though.
Most people equate harder cast bullets with less or no leading. That is an ignorant oversimplifcation.
The bullet's hardness has to be just soft enough to fully obturate the bore with the pressure generated by the load in question. There is a formula for figuring out the correct Brinell hardness for a given chamber pressure floating around in the net.
Overly hard bullets, not overly soft bullets, are the main cause of excessive leading. A rough bore comes second.
I buy my cast boolits only from Missouri Bullet Company because not only do they have killer prices, the plainly state the Brinell hardness and recommended velocity range for each and every one of their boolits.
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