Glock 26 ejection failure
Posted: 20 Feb 2018 11:30
I just got myself a new Glock 26 4th gen and sent about 250 rounds down the range.
I used my 9mm hand loaded ammo: 124grn cast bullet, 4.2 grn HP-38 powder.
This ammo worked very well in my HiPoint C9, however I'm running into these failures in Glock 26:
- failure to eject
- smoke stack
- failure to feed (successful ejection)
- failure to lock slide in open position upon firing last round
All those are at random, from 2 separate magazines.
The last type of failure, occurring most often, leads me to believe that there is not enough force exerted on the slide to push it all the way back. If that is the case, it wold explain the rest of the failures. When manually moving slides of bothe Glock 26 and HiPoint C9, I can tell that it takes more force on the Glock to move all the way back.
So... what are my options:
1. increase HP-38 load to 4.4 grn (max, I believe) but will start dipping into compressed load
2. Use different powder. Have Bullseye, but that calls for similar capacity/volume
Any suggestions? Thanks
I used my 9mm hand loaded ammo: 124grn cast bullet, 4.2 grn HP-38 powder.
This ammo worked very well in my HiPoint C9, however I'm running into these failures in Glock 26:
- failure to eject
- smoke stack
- failure to feed (successful ejection)
- failure to lock slide in open position upon firing last round
All those are at random, from 2 separate magazines.
The last type of failure, occurring most often, leads me to believe that there is not enough force exerted on the slide to push it all the way back. If that is the case, it wold explain the rest of the failures. When manually moving slides of bothe Glock 26 and HiPoint C9, I can tell that it takes more force on the Glock to move all the way back.
So... what are my options:
1. increase HP-38 load to 4.4 grn (max, I believe) but will start dipping into compressed load
2. Use different powder. Have Bullseye, but that calls for similar capacity/volume
Any suggestions? Thanks