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

[theblaze]

Yes.
I can jam my G19 and G17 at will by limp wristing them. It is easiest with standard pressure ammo, and harder, but not impossible with +p and +p+.
My G22 is similiar to the 9mm with +ps, difficult to limp wrist jam, but not impossible.
My G24 has many malfs when I shoot it with the Surefire X200 light attached. It has FTFeed with the round hitting the bottom of the feed ramp. This continues even now after Glock replaced the frame (upgrade) to Gen 3 style. It happens with 40S&W and with a replacement Jarvis 357Sig barrel as well, oh well!
For the record, all guns jam. Just a question of how often(really good ones will be 1/1,000,000 and will jam due to a broken part). I've seen the ultra reliable HKP7 jam. My ultra reliable Beretta 92 will jam with 3D brand 115gr LRN. I think I swallowed my gum when my Sig 226 jammed in the hands of an 80+ year old WWII vet. (I had heretofore thought that gun unjammable)
Finally, in 1994, my stone cold reliable(many thousands of rounds) G19 jammed at the range in the hands of my sister. Stunned, I examined the scene. She had loaded a round into the magazine backwards! Well, that would do it!

To Glock's credit, a few years ago a friend of mine shot a 40 round CCW qualifier with his G32. Confounded by the poor accuracy he got(he is a crack shot), it became clear when he picked up the brass and it looked like straight wall 40 rather than the funny bottleneck 357Sig it had started out as. Yup, he had the 40S&W replacement barrel in the gun! The Glock had worked fine thru it all! He qualified...

Glocks aren't perfect, but God has forgiven them, and He now carries one!
Blaze

 

[444]

"Apparently, Glock "perfection" is just another marketing trick."

Some time in the last year I took a Glock Armor's course. It wasn't THE real factory Glock Armor's course but it was taught by a certified Glock Armor who works as a gunsmith full time and teaches gunsmithing at a community college.
Anyway, the whole "Glock Perfection" thing really ticks this guy off. He has worked on plenty of them in his gunsmithing career. But in one portion of the class, he goes through all the upgraded parts that Glock has come out with over the years to correct problem areas that have been discovered over the years. You can see pictures of them (the new vs. the old parts) in any of the Glock Armor's books. The instructor said, if these things are perfect why do they need to be upgraded with new parts designs by the factory ?

FWIW, I have a 1st generation Glock 17 that I have been shooting a fair amount that had all the original Glock parts in it. Never had a problem. I upgraded to all the "new" parts after taking this class just for the heck of it. Still no problems (I should say, no major problems. I have had the occasional malfunction. It might have been a magazine, dirty gun, bad ammo or whatever but a malfuction occured).
I saw a demonstration by a group of Frontsight instructors during a class I was taking there. They are really big on having their instructors demonstrate techniques live in front of the class in real time. They only fired about 5-10 rounds in this drill, and of all the times for this to happen, one of the instructors had a Type III malfunction in the middle of the drill in front of about 60 students. FWIW, she cleared it immediately and perfectly and kept right on shooting.

 

[kevin387]

yes operator error

 

[pete f]

I had a 19 go full auto.

It was a loaner from the rep trying to get me to buy one at "glock days" at a local gun shop, first shot was fine, second shot was dump the whole magazine down range. The Glock guy yelled at me what the hell did I do, I said you try it, HE slammed a mag in it and slingshotted the slide and it went bangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbang till it was empty. Apparently that was one of the early ones that did not have the redesigned firing pin. It had broken and was lodged in the opening of the slide. I believe they have had 4 generations of firing pin designs.



I was at the range last year and a MPLS cop has his off duty 23, go kaboom, factory ammo, no lead, just gold dots, blew the slide off the frame. He got a new gun for free from Glock.

google Glock KB or glock Kaboom

 

[GregGry]

A friend of mine owns a g19 3rdG. She can make it fail to feed and stove pipe for 6 rounds in a row then hand the gun to me, I fire 3 rounds through it without any problems. After I fire it I can hand it back to her and every remaining round will fail to extract or feed. I think its because she limp wrists it, but needless to say I was worried something was broken with the gun prior to shooting it myself. I know that she didn't have any problems with a couple other pistols. Something about the glock just doesn't work for her. I think it might actually work better for her with hotter ammo.

 

[artech]

Yup, I busted an ejector in a first model G17 and had a bad batch of reloads repeatedly jam a G19. As I recall, the ejector fix was about six bucks and the reloads got flung downrange, but not by the Glock. Also had some ammo trouble with a G23, again, not the gun's fault.

Anything will jam if it breaks or gets fed garbage.

Currently have a G32 and use quality ammo. No problems.

 

[T209]

I had several FTF with my G17 yesterday. It was very shocking. I put 125 rounds through the gun and it heated up real good. I had 5 clips fully loaded so I put them through pretty quickly. One of the clips had hollowpoints in it and went I used them up the gun had smoke coming out of it at the back. I had never seen it do that before. The bullets were given to me by somebody to use up. They had been in old metal clips that had been stored in cosmoline. The cosmoline was removed with only a cloth so I'm thinking that maybe some of it got on the bullets and when the gun heated up the cosmoline on the bullets melted which caused the FTSs. What are your thoughts on this? The other thing is that I didn't clean the Glock for a long time and it looks pretty bad inside. I guess that could be another reason for the FTFs. I read though that Glocks don't malfunction even if they're not cleaned for a long time.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

No mechanical device is perfect.

My own G19 was 100% reliable with FMJ ammo but would fail to feed the last round of hollowpoints at first due to faulty magazine followers. Glock replaced these with a new design and it has been reliable since. I have had a few very sporadic failures to eject, usually (not always) with WWB ammo. I think this is more a fault of the ammo - which is known to be a little weak - than the gun itself. I have never had a failure to feed, fire or extract that I can recall. It also had one disabling breakage - the spring holding the slide takedown tab broke, allowing the tab to fall out and the slide fly off the front of the frame, landing in the dirt with the barrel and recoil spring still attached. This has been replaced with a new design spring, and an extended takedown tab while I was at it.

 

[sammy]

I have had about 4 fail to feeds with my G34. After putting a heavier (22# Wolf) recoil spring in my G20 in an attempt to keep the brass from going into orbit I got several double feeds and failure to feeds. With the stock spring it feeds flawlessly. Nedless to say I tossed the aftermarket spring and lose about 50% of my brass.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

"Perfection" is a bit hyperbolic and should not be taken literally. Nevertheless, 9mm Glocks are extremely reliable and durable. Even their detractors usually concede these points.

 

[Steve C]

i've had my Glock 19 for 21 years and have had a few malfunctions. Original problem developed soon after I first bought it and it would double (fire 2 shots with one trigger pull) after which it would not reset without hand cycling the action. Was sent to Glock and they repaired it.

Worked fine for 10 years and many thousands of rounds until Glock had a "factory upgrade" to stainless parts for free at a major gun store. Glock reps replaced the parts and the problem soon reappeared. Took it to the Glockmeister and he fixed the problem and upgraded the action for me. He said it was caused by sloppy armorer not checking the installation and using the correctly adjusted part which allowed the striker to slip from the sear bar. Since then its functioned perfectly again for many thousands of rounds with only an occasional ammo related stoppage. This reinforced my belief in "do not to fix things that are not broke". Every once in a while you have to relearn old lessons.

After 11 years of use the original magazines began to fail to lock back the slide after the last round. Rebuilt them with new springs and followers and they still work fine now.

 

[Dr_2_B]

I had some with my 1991 first gen G17. Sent it back & it's been fine since.

 

[rs999]

Yes, I have jammed a G17 but only with the Blazer CCI aluminum Wal-Mart specials.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Yes.
The things just don't like me. Just about every time I'm around them they jam.
A friend (an experienced shooter) had so much trouble with a new G17 that he tried to give it to me. I wouldn't accept it. Recently he tried to give me a G26. After shooting it a few days I insisted that he take it back. It didn't malfunction, I just didn't like the gun.

A couple days ago on my range a friend ran through about 150 rounds in a G17. I think it only jammed feeding once, so it wasn't a bad day.

 

[Drgong]

First time I picked up a glock, I fired 10 rounds though it, and 3 of them jammed. I know that I must of had a bad gun or something.

 

[Sapper771]

I have saw one 9mm Glock jam and it was because the shooter didnt have a strong enough grip on it. When they shot it , it jammed every round. When the other five of us shot it , it shot great.

 

[jakemccoy]

I jammed a G26 the first time I shot it. The jam was due completely to operator error. I haven't jammed a 9mm Glock since. I own a G27 though.

 

[boldkharma]

Only one in many, many rounds through glocks. It was a deformed and dirty wolf cartridge. I have seen my neighbor's daughter stove pipe my G-17 on three different occassions (limp wrist).

 

[m2steven]

Several thousand rounds in my G26 and no failures of any type. Also, zero failures in my S&W 1911, nor in my CZ75, nor my Ruger SR9. At least a grand or better through those and they are fairly new. My new Taurus 92 is Also perfect. I attribute that to reading this forum and a few others and taking good advice.

I keep them all clean, at least cleaned after every shooting of more than a magazine full.

 

[Ben86]

Nope no malfunctions here. However just like any auto pistol they are not above malfunctions. They just have a lot less.

Most jamming is either bad mags or sissy wrists.

 

[TheEngineer]

After about 600 rounds the slide of my 30SF cut a gouge in the trigger bar so deep that it binds up and won't return to battery. FWIW, it had been flawless up until that point.

 

[SwampWolf]

FWIW, it had been flawless up until that point.

Well, after only 600 rounds it sure should have been.

Glocks are, no doubt, great pistols. But an awful lot of people are quick to excuse a poor performing pistol (not just Glocks) by attributing failures to other supposed causes-limpwristing, dirty or damaged magazines, poor cleaning/lubication practices, ammunition related failures, insufficient break-in, springs out of spec, etc. Whereas it's probably true that one or more of these factors are, in fact, the cause of most pistol malfunctions, sometimes the pistol itself is at fault and the owner who refuses to acknowledge same is only fooling himself. As others have pointed out, just like people, no gun is perfect. Oops, I forgot about the "Annointed One"...

 

[HardShell]

I own more than a dozen of them and I can honestly say that I've never had a malf in any of the 9mm ones that I could attribute to the gun alone. (I can't say that about the .45 Glocks, but I own more of the 9mms and shoot them far more than the others.)

I've owned most of the major players in full-size semi-autos over the years and I don't feel like I'm out on a limb saying that my 9mm Glocks have been the least problematic of all, even though I am quite fond of several other platforms that I own and shoot.

 

[Philo_Beddoe]

I had a G17 that would stovepipe about 2 times per 50 rounds.

 

[CPshooter]

Yes. My most recent Glock purchase (a brand new 3rd gen Glock 19) stovepipe jammed regularly. I'd like to believe that it was just my grip, but I used to have a Glock 19 a few years back (also 3rd gen) and I couldn't get that one to jam if I wanted to. I never figured out what was causing it because I sold it immediately after I decided it was unreliable. Because of that incident, I've been scared to buy another Glock. (Although a Glock 23 is still tempting just for the sheer firepower to weight/size ratio it offers)