First malfunction in my Glock 26…

[Skillet]

the mystery...

so it can be one of these possible things,
he was limp wristing
a new magazine that the round got stuck in to hard
a crappy magazine
a very firm-jammed in round in the magazine
something is broken.anything that is mechanical will break, even if it is a glock.
or the round was a bad one, a melon round.

 

[average_shooter]

I've only managed to get a G26 to do this once. And I was trying my darndest to get it to do so. The only time it failed to fully cycle was when I had my thumb on the back of the grip and trigger finger pulling the trigger with no other fingers around the grip. Extreme "limp wrist" situation.

Sounds like the same thing happened though. One round fired and ejected, but the following round was not chambered and stayed in the mag. As others have suggested, most likely it's user error not Glock error.

 

[Chucky64]

Limp Wrist

My wife was shooting her P89 and kept having FTE problems. I automatically
think that its my reloads, not enough powder, but every time she had
a Jam, I cleared the Jam and finished the Magazine without any Problems.
This continued to happen until I had the limp wrist epiphany, of course
trying to explain this to a inexperienced shooter is difficult, because no one
likes to be told they not controlling their gun correctly.

 

[Doug S]

Hi All,

I'm don't think anything is "perfect", so I have no problem believing all guns will malfunction. That said, I'm really inclined to think this particular issue was user error. Neither I, or my small handed, petite 5ft 4in wife have been able to make my Glock's malfunction. As I mentioned I've since put a 100 rounds through the same gun and magazine without doing anything to the gun (including cleaning), and the gun was flawless. If the trigger spring had broken, I think it would have stayed broken. My theory is that the magazine either wasn't seated correctly, or he released it when he shot the gun. He then pulled the Glock trigger, with which he has no experience (an not much experience with firearms of any type), and either didn't recognize what a stock Glock trigger feels like when being dry fired. My theory could be incorrect, but at this point I really have nothing else to go on as the gun functioned perfectly. I've since tore it down and cleaned it well, and I can find no issues with the gun.

 

[sarduy]

he limp wristed- newbs do it all the time- autos need a firm hand to stabilize the frame so the slide can operate properly- my guess is that the slide didnt cycle far enough back

+10000

 

[skers69]

I had a buddy of mine shoot my G26. His hands are BIG and he is a lefty. Turns out he got the top of his thumb half way up on the top cut pretty well when the slide caught him on ejection. I had warned him to keep all hands and fingers inside of the slide at all times. One of the few failures on my Glock...but I consder it shooter error not the gun.