Glock 31 fired out of battery--Kaboom - twice

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My Glock 31 kaboomed a week ago, I gathered the parts that went flying, put it back together, and the third round kaboomed AGAIN, the firing pin indention almost missed the primer. the case head was separated from the brass, mag blown out, extractor missing. Jarred the heck out of both hands. That sure does effect your next sight picture. :) My dealer called Glock and my dealer is shipping it back to Glock for inspection. I have several Glocks, but the incident sure makes one think Sig or HK. :)
 
Pulling the trigger the second time would make me rethink

shooting handguns. 3 Times??? Perhaps even long arms.

Never heard of this one. Do you work for Springfield?

And to Glock's credit, did you have both eyes and hands to pack the box to ship er back??

Nuf said.

Also - the only rule that Glock has with their barrels is not to shoot handloads...............
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Well, I thought that it would never happen to me, but the second round of a new handload kaboomed my trusty Glock 31. "

Call it hexagonal, call it an accurate spin barrel, call it what you will but why would anyone post blow up scenarios with handloads in a the only gun that says not to shoot handloads???????????????????

And the followup post to this one was a hand loaded destruction of yet another Glock:

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kB!'d a G22. Failure was directly over the feedramp. Was shooting reloads at the time--the cause wasn't an overcharge. "


I sense some salesman here.........................

I don't choose Glocks over my other arms, but I have personally put 12.5K rounds of factory ammo through a G-17 and G-19. I also own a few others that have been absolutely reliable WITH FACTORY AMMO. My USP blew up with a 9mm P++. Am I blaming H&H??
 
Every single major gun manufacturer on earth, including Ruger, says that using handloaded ammo will void the warranty.
 
G31

I don't understand what the diffrence is between a factory load and one I can load my self, what's the diffrence if it's done right. I think they are talking about shooting lead.

J.B.
 
Mechanical failure (firing out of battery) is a frequent event with Glocks and no matter the source of the ammo, firing out of battery will result in a kaboom. That said, I've shot reloads for thousands of rounds with my Glock 21s and never had a problem, but then 45acp operates at around 17,000 psi not 35,000 as some other cartridges do. The latest reloading book I have in the 40S&W section clearly states "do not use any of these loads in any Glock" nuff said?
 
Most guns do not actually have a "warranty".
The manufacturers do not want to slap 'limited' on the warranty to comply with Magnuson-Moss so they have NO warranty.
They also almost all declare 'we stand behind our products' and provide service most industries can only strive for.
 
Are you sure you're setting the case shoulder back far enough? If you're failing to do that, it would explain why it's not going all the way into battery.

Still won't explain why it's firing out of battery other than the inherent safety issues Glocks have.
 
Yeah this sounds fishy... first of all a fully assembled, even moderately maintained Glock with standard factory ammunition does not have problems.

:)
 
Why buy a gun that doesn’t shoot ALL loads? My Ruger shoots everything.
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I agree. Though there's a lot more people who own Glocks, I've never heard of a Ruger auto kBing. I bet the response from Glock will be "it's the ammo's fault, you pay for the replacement"
 
I also wonder who in their right mind would pick up the pieces from a gun that has "supposedly" just exploded, put it back together then shoot it again.:eek: Number one reason being I can't imagine a gun exploding and then being able to put it back together in working condition. Every report I've ever heard of a Glock KB has totaled the gun, at the very least left it in a non-shootable condition.

Methinks there is something about this we are not being told. Either that or we have a troll in our midst. :rolleyes:
 
Glock 31 Ka boom

After the first kaboom, I detail stripped the complete pistol to look for cracks etc, the pistol was reassymbled. I checked the remaining ammo for OAL and pulled bullets to comfirm powder weight, everything was correct. The powder weight was midway between the starting load and the max load listed in a new Lyman reloading manual. Then, believing everything was safe, I gave it another try. I know of other Glocks that kaboomed over the ramp, that was reassymbled after a careful inspection, and ran without further problems.
Glocks, will fire out of battery, if you don't believe me, pull your slide back a little, and place something behind the slide, [a small paper match, thin plastic etc.] and pull your trigger. It will likely fire. Since the 357 sig headspaces off of the case mouth, a case too long, or one that the SHOULDER HAS NOT BEEN SET BACK ENOUGHT, could cause the pistol to fire out of battery. Glocks , and perhaps some others, will fire out of battery. A little bit out of battery, may be all it takes to cause a problem. I has other Glocks, this is the only one that has caused a problem. I have fired many rounds of Remington brass reloads without any problems. This was new PMC brass. I blame the brass, But Glocks are more prone for this than other brands in my opinion, but I'm not selling any Glocks, and I plan to continue using this model 31 when it returns from Glock. I will stick to major USA brand of ammo and brass. By the way PMC was owned be a korean company and is now out of business. I agree with the poster regarding that this doesn't happen to Rugers, I am a Ruger fan also.
 
In the instruction manual it says to use jacketed factory ammunition. If you want to shoot "other than factory ammunition" then you need an "other than factory barrel".

:)
 
Just about every pistol manual says not to use reloads. It's just that Glocks are the only ones that get cranky on you and explode for disobeying.
 
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