Broke my Glock

[HSMITH]

More accurately the upper (small) locking block pin is broken on my third gen G22. The gun still runs 100%, shot about 300 rounds through it on Friday and the last 4 stages of an action match with it just last weekend. From the marks on the ends it has been broken for a while, it has been at least 3000 rounds since the last detail strip so it broke somewhere between round 6000 and 9500. This gun also regularly digests some very powerful handloads. You can see if the pin is broken without taking it out, just look from the magwell side of the locking block and it is right there. I'll be looking at it from now on when I pull the slide off.

Anyone else had this pin break?

 

[NMshooter]

Wow, that wasn't very many rounds.

I once had a G23 that went through a lot more than that, and the locking block split in half front to back.

Didn't find about it until the trigger return spring broke and I stripped the pistol to see what was wrong...

 

[1goodshot]

My slide stop broke after about 6000 shots. Gun kept working. Its a model 22

 

[Boats]

Wait a minute! Isn't everything I just read in this thread impossible?

 

[Old Fuff]

Saw one case where the block itself broke. I don't know about the pin because I didn't see it. The pistol belonged to a local police department and I have no idea how many rounds had gone through it, but I don't think the count was particularly high.

Yes, like anything else they do break sometimes.

 

[N.M. Edmands]

I too have broken Glocks. Bought my 1st mdl 22 in 91 , and shot the crap out of it with both factory and HEAVY reloads. In 1994 , at a match I had a trigger pin break in 2, half dropping into my hand. [ approx 31.000 rds. ] 1997 broke the locking block. [ approx 65,000 rds. ][don't know how long it had been broken, found it when I took it apart to replace a return spring. ] Traded it away in 2003 on an STI LS40. It had over 100,000 rds thru it. If everything in my life was half as dependable---------
Nat

 

[popeye]

I've got a 19 and a 23. I just sent the 19 in to Glock for the E series frame replacement. Probably 4,000 rounds of standard pressure FMJ thru it and frame rail never broke. But I figure I better get it done, since I called em last week and they have frames in stock. Any guess as to what percentage of all LEO's including Local, State, and U.S. Government carry Glocks? I have no idea.

 

[LeonCarr]

65% was the last number I heard

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[Missouri Mule]

You guys ought to take this over to GT....
They will never beleive it over there!!

 

[popeye]

If 65% is close I would consider that Glock pistols as a whole are pretty reliable. Most serious (non LEO) gun owners have at least one Glock (my opinion, can't support it). Glocks get "bummed" a lot, but I look at it like this, they're resonably priced (compared to SIG, HK), and while they take a bit more caution with operation, work 99% of the time without having to be scrupulously (sp?) clean. Even the E series guns that broke frame rails continued to function. The only gun I own I consider 100% reliable is a J frame Smith or my Colt Det spec..

 

[HSMITH]

Picked up the replacement pin tonight on the way home from a local store. The owner is the Glock armorer, and handles several local PD's totalling several hundred G22's. He bought 10 of the pins when the G22 came out, early 90's? Anyway, I bought #3 from his stash. Total cost was $2.05.