My glock jammed yesterday

[LumberZach]

[quote="LumberZach"]My glock 17 wearing trijicon hd night sights and a polished feed ramp had a failure to eject.

Glock jammed after some amateur gunsmithing was performed. Total shock.

I've had a little over 1000 trouble free rounds fired since the amateur gunsmithing so I don't think that had anything to do with it.

I'm normally on the side of amateur gunsmithing being a bad idea, but I don't see how polishing a feed ramp could affect ejection. I wouldn't lay the blame there even if you had zero rounds though it post-polishing. If you were having failures to feed, then sure, I'd say you did it to yourself, and it was (possibly, if the problem persists/repeats) time to buy a new barrel in order to fix it, but that's not what you had a problem with.

Just out of curiosity, how many rounds through that G17, and which, if any, parts have been replaced along the way?

I will say that I'm curious why you felt that the feed ramp needed polishing anyway, though. The ramp on my Walther came glassy smooth from the factory - are Glocks not similarly well finished? [/quote]
I sense a ford vs Chevy style debate coming.... I have changed the sights and polished the feed ramp and that is it. The glock feed ramp is not as smooth as it could be. There was a small spot on it that seemed to be collecting copper. It's also a pretty easy thing to do. I think I'm around 3000 rounds through the gun but I don't keep track as well as I should. Like I've said before, I'm not real worried about the malfunction. I just thought it was something worth sharing with you guys.

[Ron Burgundy]

6k+ and counting with no malfunctions and very little cleaning. Hang on to that pig and let her rip.

[andrewP]

I sense a ford vs Chevy style debate coming....

Not at all; I was just poking a little bit of fun at you. Like I said on Thursday night @ OGC, I have plenty of respect for Glocks; they just don't happen to fit my hands well.

[dleong]

Could it possibly have been an undercharged factory round that didn't cycle the slide with enough authority to throw the case clear?

[cgrant26]

Could it possibly have been an undercharged factory round that didn't cycle the slide with enough authority to throw the case clear?

Here's what a slightly undercharged round looked like in my G19:





This was enough to cycle the gun and chamber the next round. If I hadn't been wearing active noise cancellation ear pro, I probably wouldn't have heard the squib and stopped my friend from pulling the trigger again.

[Ron Burgundy]

Could it possibly have been an undercharged factory round that didn't cycle the slide with enough authority to throw the case clear?

Here's what a slightly undercharged round looked like in my G19:





This was enough to cycle the gun and chamber the next round. If I hadn't been wearing active noise cancellation ear pro, I probably wouldn't have heard the squib and stopped my friend from pulling the trigger again.

What brand and how much money did they give you after you called them?

[dleong]

Here's what a slightly undercharged round looked like in my G19:

This was enough to cycle the gun and chamber the next round. If I hadn't been wearing active noise cancellation ear pro, I probably wouldn't have heard the squib and stopped my friend from pulling the trigger again.

Yikes! Was that factory or handloaded ammo?

[jshuberg]

Glock jammed up? Buy a Sig, they don't do that.


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[Seismic Sam]

Could it possibly have been an undercharged factory round that didn't cycle the slide with enough authority to throw the case clear?

Here's what a slightly undercharged round looked like in my G19:





This was enough to cycle the gun and chamber the next round. If I hadn't been wearing active noise cancellation ear pro, I probably wouldn't have heard the squib and stopped my friend from pulling the trigger again.

What brand and how much money did they give you after you called them?

That is a flat out scary picture, and this isn't SLIGHTLY undercharged, it's damn near NO charge. Glad you and your buddy are still both in one piece!

[Seismic Sam]

Feed ramp polishing on a Glock isn't likely to do anything. If you consider how heavily the Gen 1 and 2 Glocks were Dremeled out by my Austrian troll cousins in caves high in the Alps, it's ridiculous to think at a little polishing, as opposed to a lot of Troll grinding could affect the gun at all. Due to the reduction in chamber grinding, a lot of my distant relatives are out of work, and stand around with cardboard signs saying "Lost my job at Glock, will accept snakes, lizards, toads, or roadkill....... Apparently there are no reloading n00bs in Austria....

[andrewP]

Here's what a slightly undercharged round looked like in my G19:

At least it made it almost all the way down the barrel. It'd be easier to pound it out than if it got stuck in the middle. Gotta agree with Sam though; that stuff is scary. Whether that was a factory round or a reload, it's a good reminder for those of us who do reload that we need to verify that there is the correct amount of powder in each case before placing a bullet.