Has anyone ever had a jam with a 9mm Glock?

[PO2Hammer]

My first Glock, a 34 would f-t-feed quite a bit with light practice ammo. Fine with full power hollow points. A 15 pound recoil spring fixed the problem.
-My 21 had trouble loading the first round from a 10 round mag. It was very hard to get that 10th round in there.
-My 20 had two f-t-fires with Winchester Slivertip ammo. When the new full cap mags came out, I had many f-t-feeds with them. 10 rounders were 100%.
-My 35 had many f-t-feeds and was terribly innaccurate.
-My 17L longslide has been perfect and very accurate, 2,000 rounds or so.

 

[Quinch]

About 15,000 rounds through a G23 without a failure.
Only a couple hundred though a G20, one failure to go into battery. Cause: wife is a notorious limp-wrister.
She has never shot the G23. Don't limp-wrist, and you're fine. That goes for alot of autos.

 

[USMCRotrHed]

An aquaintance of mine had one jam once, but that was after no..and I mean NO cleaning for almost 600 rounds.

 

[jlh26oo]

No.

 

[Top_Notch]

Yes. Twice in 1000 rounds. That's once more than my 1911. Hmmm.

The 2183 followers are garbage and will not feed JHP correctly.

 

[Mossyrock]

The Secret to Glock Perfection

I have owned a variety of Glocks, to include three or four 17s, a custom 10mm longslide and about half a dozen 19s. None of the 9mms malfunctioned, but the 10mm was pretty picky and gave me feeding and extraction fits. Want to know the secret to Glock reliability? Easy: DON'T MESS WITH IT!! 90% of the Glock problems I have seen were caused by someone messing with the basic design, to include changing the springs, guide rod or trigger pull. When it comes to Glocks, the best thing to do is either buy it with factory night sights or have decent sights installed and LEAVE IT ALONE!!

I have a safe full of custom 1911s and Hi-Powers from folks like Ted Yost, Dane Burns, Chuck Rogers and Wayne Novak. Right now, there is an absolutely box stock Glock 19 with factory night sights on my hip in a Blade-Tech holster loaded with 115gr Gold Dot +p+ ammo. It is approaching the 3,000 round mark without a single glitch. Glock Perfection? Nope, it's too ugly for that. But damned if it doesn't work!!

 

[rich52us]

I've had a Glock 17 since Feb., 1987. The only failures I had have been due to ammo failures, a squib round here and there. No failures on the part of the pistol. I've put several thousand rounds through it.

 

[the naked prophet]

Glock Perfection? Nope, it's too ugly for that. But damned if it doesn't work!!

I'll agree to that statement! My Browning Hi-Power has worked flawlessly (except for some defective mags I bought cheap - all factory mags now!) but it's just so darn heavy! If they made a Hi-Power with a polymer frame, but that looked just like the steel frame version, I'd be happy especially if it used double stack .40 mags instead of the quasi-double stack.

 

[GRP]

I have a G19 that has been flawless. Maybe it's just me but I realy like the looks of my Glock. I have a pimped out 1911 and a Sig, but the Glock has the "I'm the professional and I'm here only for business look". No Armani suits, no rolexes, just a sweatshirt and levis.

 

[Glock_10mm]

I had one rd jam on my once in my G19. I ejected it, looked at it and the hollowpoint must have been smashed prior to the shooting because the bullet was an oval. Only time in a glock, but would have done it in any gun!

 

[fastbolt]

Short answer ... Yes.

Parts (including springs) age and can become worn, weakened, damaged, broken, etc., etc..

The pistol doesn't operate in a vacuum, either. Two critical influences on the proper operation and functioning of a semiauto pistol are the individual shooter and the ammunition used ... both of which are pretty much beyond the control of the manufacturer once the pistol leaves the factory.

First feeding/functioning problem I ever experienced with a Glock was back when they were brand new. It occurred with fresh W-W 115gr STHP ammunition I'd just bought to use in a range's rental G17. Several feeding problems occurred within that 50-round box. I suspected lack of lubrication and weakened magazine springs. It was a well used rental gun, after all. I also recall the range staff telling me that they had already had a broken trigger spring in that particular G17 ... but like I said, Glocks were rather new and interesting at the time, and it had been well used by folks who undoubtedly treated it like the rental gun it was ...

 

[evan price]

Never jammed a 9mm Glock.

But My First Glock (& My First Semiauto!) was a Model 21. The very first round I fired out of it stovepiped. (I limp wristed it). Since then I have never had any sort of jams out of my Glocks. Or Sigs. Or XDs.

 

[RustyShackelford]

Glock 21 .45acp/rental gun

Many years ago I shot a Glock .45/model 21 on a rental range that had a few jams. I think it was because the Glock was dirty and I shot reloaded .45acp rounds.

RS

 

[armoredman]

Yes, with various G19s and G17s, FTF, FTE, and even magazines dropping out by themselves.

 

[Rokman]

My Glock 17 and 23 have had no stoppages through several thousand rounds fired. My Glock 26 had several stoppages, but due to reloaded ammo. No problems with factory ammo.

 

[ccw007]

I had a Glock 19 that was very picky when it came to ammo. What it would shoot it would shoot well.

 

[another okie]

I'm up to about 15,000 rounds now on my 17 with no jams or failures of any kind, but I did have a couple of failures with my 26 when using Remington Ballisticlean, a lightly loaded "green" ammo.

 

[Blacklabman]

Two G17's for USPSA 9k+ round count between them... flawlwess.
Two G23's. 2k between them.... flawless
G26- 700 rounds. flawless.

They do not need it, but I replace the springs at 3k. New magazines are purchased every six months. The old ones are kept, and go in the safe.

 

[TaxPhd]

Go watch a GSSF match to see many Glock 9mm malfunctions. A little time at the armorers tens will reveal many breakages.

 

[Plink]

Best way to find out is ask gunsmiths who work on a lot of different models. They'll tell you that Glocks malfunction too, just like the others. Most good quality guns are quite reliable though, Glock included. Perfect they're not, but none of the others are either. Now if only they'd do away with all the corners and edges.

 

[erict]

I have a Sig 239 in 9mm that has had several thousand rounds through it without a single failure.

 

[Zerstoerer]

No failures ever with my G19.

Right after the G26 came out, I observed a failure during a CC class.
Not only did it fail to fire but completely seized up.

Only brute force let the slide come back and disassembly showed the metal plate that separated the larger diameter spring jump over the smaller one jamming the action.

I avoid any gun which does not a single recoil spring since then.

 

[Oregongundude]

Glock 17 9 mm over 10,000 rounds fired.

I have fired about 10,000 throught my Glock 17 9 mm never a jam that I can recall.

 

[das028]

Once in about 5,000 rounds, with my G19. Happen on the second mag I ever shot out of it too.

 

[Master Blaster]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=106015

Yes I have pictures included. It was caused by a Magazine follower problem and has not recurred in 3000 rounds or so since.