Normal for Glock barrel to jiggle when slide open?

[newbie4help]

Last glock thread today...I promise. As you can see I have lots of free time before I start my summer job next week....

Anyway, I was practicing "dry firing" with my new Glock 17, which I heard is a good ideal to refine trigger movement, internalize the safety rules, etc. I noticed that when the slide is open, the barrel will shift slightly (you can hear it more than see it) when the slide is racked. When it's closed, I don't hear anything.

 

[MDG1976]

That is perfectly normal. Most semi autos will do that when the slide is back.

 

[CountGlockula]

Yes.

Newbie, you and I need to go shooting and have a long talk about Glocks.

Anyways, keep asking away. That's what we're here for!

 

[newbie4help]

Thanks guys. I'm going to try to take it out a couple more times before I start my new job (maybe even today), because then I'll probably be lucky to get once a week this summer.

 

[wally]

Offhand, can't think of any semis that don't do that when the slide is locked back other than fixed barrel blowbacks and the HK P7/PSP guns.

--wally.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

This is normal. (If it were not, all of my guns would be defective.) The slide and barrel are only locked together when the slide is fully forward ("in battery") at the moment of firing, and then only for about a quarter of an inch.

 

[Drail]

Most of the Glocks I've seen jiggle when the slide is in battery.