My glock jammed yesterday

View · by **LumberZach** on Wed May 20, 2015 11:12 am

My glock 17 wearing trijicon hd night sights and a polished feed ramp had a failure to eject. I was shooting wpa steel case ammo, firing one handed. I was using a magazine that had been loaded for about 1 year and carried for about as long. I had fired the ammo in the mag without a hitch and continued shooting through the day and this finally happened.

I have marked the magazine and I will watch for any other issues. Otherwise I am not too concerned. I just felt like sharing but if you guys have any other comments, they are welcomed.

View · by **Seismic Sam** on Wed May 20, 2015 12:42 pm

Are you sure you weren't shooting the gun "gangsta style" (sideways...)?? Fo' shizzle!!!

View · by **westhope** on Wed May 20, 2015 1:00 pm

My 1911 worked fine (as usual) yesterday at the FR&PC IPSC match.

Sorry, no pictures.

View · by **LePetomane** on Wed May 20, 2015 2:40 pm

My revolvers don't do that.

View · by **rtk** on Wed May 20, 2015 2:55 pm

Limp wrist?

View · by **EAJuggalo** on Thu May 21, 2015 6:53 am

Some specific guns have had problems with FTE while having a light on the front. IIRC those were generally subcompacts but you do hear occasionally of a full size that just won't work right. How many rounds through it that day before this happened?

View · by **LumberZach** on Thu May 21, 2015 7:53 am

It was very possibly a limp wrist, but i have never had any kind of malfunction before. I expect it was a combination of the steel case ammo, some level of limp wrist, and the magazine being loaded for a year. I have shot with the light on a fair amount but maybe I will keep an eye on that as well. I shot my kimber on Monday, and it probably jammed 7-8 times with these cheap mags I was using. I shot it along side my glock on Tuesday and the 1911 outperformed the glock.

View · by **westhope** on Thu May 21, 2015 8:04 am

....the 1911 outperformed the glock.

View · by **andrewP** on Thu May 21, 2015 8:25 am

EAJuggalo wrote:Some specific guns have had problems with FTE while having a light on the front. IIRC those were generally subcompacts but you do hear occasionally of a full size that just won't work right. How many rounds through it that day before this happened?

My (limited) understanding of this is that it's mainly .40 S&W Glocks that have had that problem. MANY police departments have had that issue with G22s. Upon switching to 9mm (17s and/or 19s), their problems generally went away, IIRC. I'm not saying it's impossible; after all, somebody has to be the unlucky one with tolerance stacking, etc, but I'd bet more that it was the Wolf ammo than the gun or the gun + light combo.

View · by **mmcnx2** on Thu May 21, 2015 8:34 am

My 1911's, 2011's, revolvers, Mark III, CZ and Coonan all performed flawlessly last time at the range.

I even test drove a Walther that ran 100%.

View · by **OldmanFCSA** on Thu May 21, 2015 6:15 pm

In this recent spell of cold weather, Glock have been known to jam unless pre-heated in an oven set at 450 degrees - about an hour should solve the problems completely.

View · by **yuppiejr** on Fri May 22, 2015 4:13 am

Aren't those made of porcelain? Maybe hit it with some toilet bowl cleaner?

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View · by **20mm** on Fri May 22, 2015 7:38 am

LumberZach wrote: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.

View · by **LumberZach** on Fri May 22, 2015 9:34 am

20mm wrote:
LumberZach wrote: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.

View · by **andrewP** on Fri May 22, 2015 10:26 am

LumberZach wrote:
20mm wrote:
LumberZach wrote: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?