Concerns about reloading for a .40 Glock

[mxjunky78]

+1. My thoughts exactly!

 

[BBQJOE]

What does firing a glock under water prove???

 

[gamestalker]

I seriously don't consider the .40 to be any different to load for than 9mm. If your doing everything correctly, and not using suspect brass, your not going to have problems.

GS

 

[Jim Watson]

Also, 1st. & 2nd. gen Glocks like my Model 23, by design, could fire out of battery by nearly 3/16" inch.

Really, rc? FIRE out of battery? I don't doubt you could retract the slide a bit, pull the trigger and hear something inside go Click!, but FIRE?
Or did you try it with a primed case? (No need to run such experiments with live ammo.)
And if it did Pop!, what was the relationship between case, and chamber? I bet it was in the chamber with the head right flat against the breechface, with the barrel substantially locked up because that is the only way to keep the primer in line with the striker.

As the chamber got dirty, it could hold the slide open further, and that exposed more thin case wall to the unsupported feed ramp cut in the chamber.

Hold the slide open further than WHAT? This is not a blowback, if you start to hold the slide open, it starts the barrel camming down out of lockup. It has to unlock to expose any more case wall than the military slop in the action permits. And when it unlocks, the primer has moved out of line with the striker.

 

[david bachelder]

I shoot and reload a lot of 40 with my Glock 23. I have a Lone Wolf barrel and shoot a lot of cast bullets (I know it probably wasn't needed). I run all of my 40 brass through a Redding GRx sizing die to remove any bulge that may be there. Some brass passes right through the GRx and some take a bit of effort, I do it because thats the way I've always done it and so far it works for me. I pick up all of the 40 brass I find. I cull the ugly brass and reload the rest. I also use midrange loads. Since I use cast bullets sized to .401 my reloads will not drop into a Wilson case gauge, however they do drop into my barrel and cycling is never a problem.

The 40 can be a bit snappy, so I suggest you stick with mid range loads as well.

Most all of my cast bullets run a BHN of about ten and I see no uncontrolable leading.

Go ahead and reload for the Glock, its not the demon you have read about. Just use common sense and good reloading practice.

 

[Kachok]

Well i load for ALOT of firearms myself. Handguns from the 32 special to the 500 linebaugh and about everything inbetween and have been loading for glocks for at least 15 years and would sure like to know why you refuse to load for a glock. My guess is your reading to much internet bs about them. What ive found is if i load up to max pressures in the 9s 40s and 10s the do bulge cases. Back off a grain or two of powder and the bulge goes away. Bottom line though is the bulge hurts nothing. I routinely run all my handgun brass through a bulge buster type of a die anyway just because its a small price to pay to insure absolute reliablility and I do it not only for glocks but for any semi auto handgun. The only exception is 45 acp brass used exclusively in my comp guns. the question was asked earlier why would anyone buy one of these things. Well my answer is that in its price range its hands down the most reliable handgun made. It runs as well as guns that cost near twice as much. There simple to work on, cheap to customize and plenty accurate for what there made for. Why wouldnt you buy one would be my question.

That bulge is a symptom of the unsupported chamber which to me seems like a piss poor design feature, I may very well be able to shoot those bulging cases until the end of time without a kaboom but I have much more confidence in the XDs which I can run max loads without any issue. Figure in that the Springfield fits my small hands much better and I get better real world accuracy with it, so why spend more for an unsupported chamber and blocky grips? While in my experience the Glocks do cycle reliably, I have had every bit as good a performance out of the XDs, I can count on one finger how many jams I have had and that was using crappy "white box".

 

[greenlion]

Lets be clear here. Newer GLOCKS do not have unsupported chambers. Lets stop perpetuating that myth. Some GLOCKS in some calibers did have some problems with bulged brass way back in 2nd Gen guns. If you have a newer GLOCK, it should be a non-issue.

Some people have reported older GLOCKS beating up their brass. If you have gone through 20 thousand rounds and have never replaced your recoil spring, that may be true. I bought an old police trade-in G22 years ago that dinged my brass. I replaced the recoil spring, and the problem went away. Newer GLOCK should not have this problem either.

 

[Kachok]

Some have said that the newer ones are worse then the old ones, hence the recent rash of kabooms we have all been hearing about.
DISCLAMER: I DO NOT own either so I am not speaking from experience so do not take it as such, just addressing a rumor.

 

[Elkins45]

Now I can put in more than 100% extra powder and no case bulge.

Clark,

How in the world do you manage to get 2X the powder in a case and still get the bullet to seat deeply enough to feed from the magazine? Are you doing this only with fast powders?

 

[1KPerDay]

Some have said that the newer ones are worse then the old ones, hence the recent rash of kabooms we have all been hearing about.
DISCLAMER: I DO NOT own either so I am not speaking from experience so do not take it as such, just addressing a rumor.

recent rash of kabooms? I haven't seen one in quite a while.

 

[rbernie]

Some have said that the newer ones are worse then the old ones, hence the recent rash of kabooms we have all been hearing about.
DISCLAMER: I DO NOT own either so I am not speaking from experience so do not take it as such, just addressing a rumor.

I have certainly not heard this, nor is it actually true.

But by all means, let's all start random rumors!

 

[Kachok]

I have certainly not heard this, nor is it actually true.

But by all means, let's all start random rumors!

I think I was being completely fair addressing it as a rumor rather then trying to state it as some fact because I read it on the internet, but if you think the way I addressed it is unfair please tell me how I can be any more objective.

 

[rbernie]

If you can point to a source for the input - by all means, please do so. If you can't point to at least one source (and preferably multiple sources), then it's probably not worth posting.

IMO only.

 

[hentown]

Clark,

How in the world do you manage to get 2X the powder in a case and still get the bullet to seat deeply enough to feed from the magazine? Are you doing this only with fast powders?
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Because he's Clark, that's why! He's also been banned from many responsible reloading forums for good reason.