I just got back from one of the most frustrating range trips I've had. This week, I bought a brand new Glock 19 with the Exo or NibX finish. This is to match my Glock 23, which has been one of the best guns I've ever owned. The first outing with the new Glock did not go well.
My plan was to just run a box of reloads through it just to get the feel of it and make sure all was working well. First magazine loaded and I attempt to drop the slide. The round does not chamber, but gets a FTF instead. Odd, I thought. Must be a bad round. I drop the mag and dump the round and the second does the same thing. I clear that and the third chambers. First round stovepipes. Second round fails to extract. Third round stovepipes. Fourth round FTF. It went that way through 30 rounds. In that 30 rounds, I think I had 3 that functioned correctly. I tried both factory mags with the same results.
I saved the last 20 rounds to check them in a case gauge. All gauged perfectly once I got home. This is my standard 9mm recipe of 5.7g AA#5 under a 124g Powerbond plated bullet. I've shot thousands of rounds of this ammo through my CZ 75s with no problems at all. This was the last box of a batch I ran in September, which means it was the first box off the press that night. The reloads are done on a Dillon 550 and have worked very well in the past.
My plan is to take it out one more time with commercial ammo as well as taking my CZ 75 Compact along to check the last 20 rounds of the reloads from today's trip. I've disassembled the G19 and nothing looks out of the ordinary. After buying it, I disassembed, cleaned and lightly polished the contact points in the gun. This is exactly the same as I did with my G23, G27, G29 and G20. I was very sparing with lube on reassembly, with only a tiny drop on the point where the disconnector and trigger bar make contact. My understanding is that the Exo or NibX finished need no lube in other areas.
I'm really surprised by this first experience with the G19. This is supposed to be one of the best guns in Glocks lineup and for it to completely fail on it's first trip out is really odd. In the 5 Glocks I've bought in the last year, I've had two that had issues. My G29 would not drop mags free and did not like to reset until I took a stone to the area where the trigger bar was catching on a rough spot on the slide. If I had never heard of Glock before and this was my first experience with them, I'd write them off as cheap POS plastic guns and go back to the CZ and 1911 family. But, my G23 is one of my all time favorite guns and has become my standard carry gun 90% of the time. It's been flawless from the start and I expected no less from the G19.
Maybe I need to schedule a class with James Yeager. It might be fun to see him rationalize the Glock failure while I complete the class with my still flawless compact Kimber 1911.
My plan was to just run a box of reloads through it just to get the feel of it and make sure all was working well. First magazine loaded and I attempt to drop the slide. The round does not chamber, but gets a FTF instead. Odd, I thought. Must be a bad round. I drop the mag and dump the round and the second does the same thing. I clear that and the third chambers. First round stovepipes. Second round fails to extract. Third round stovepipes. Fourth round FTF. It went that way through 30 rounds. In that 30 rounds, I think I had 3 that functioned correctly. I tried both factory mags with the same results.
I saved the last 20 rounds to check them in a case gauge. All gauged perfectly once I got home. This is my standard 9mm recipe of 5.7g AA#5 under a 124g Powerbond plated bullet. I've shot thousands of rounds of this ammo through my CZ 75s with no problems at all. This was the last box of a batch I ran in September, which means it was the first box off the press that night. The reloads are done on a Dillon 550 and have worked very well in the past.
My plan is to take it out one more time with commercial ammo as well as taking my CZ 75 Compact along to check the last 20 rounds of the reloads from today's trip. I've disassembled the G19 and nothing looks out of the ordinary. After buying it, I disassembed, cleaned and lightly polished the contact points in the gun. This is exactly the same as I did with my G23, G27, G29 and G20. I was very sparing with lube on reassembly, with only a tiny drop on the point where the disconnector and trigger bar make contact. My understanding is that the Exo or NibX finished need no lube in other areas.
I'm really surprised by this first experience with the G19. This is supposed to be one of the best guns in Glocks lineup and for it to completely fail on it's first trip out is really odd. In the 5 Glocks I've bought in the last year, I've had two that had issues. My G29 would not drop mags free and did not like to reset until I took a stone to the area where the trigger bar was catching on a rough spot on the slide. If I had never heard of Glock before and this was my first experience with them, I'd write them off as cheap POS plastic guns and go back to the CZ and 1911 family. But, my G23 is one of my all time favorite guns and has become my standard carry gun 90% of the time. It's been flawless from the start and I expected no less from the G19.
Maybe I need to schedule a class with James Yeager. It might be fun to see him rationalize the Glock failure while I complete the class with my still flawless compact Kimber 1911.
