I struggled with that issue with my Glock 30 [both of them). I swapped extractors out, filed them and tried every trick I could find on-line. I finally stopped the issue by selling them both.
Is this Glock Perfection?but did get it occasionally with both of my G19s.
Nothing makes you feel more alive than a hot casing bouncing off your face.
wow, how much shlould it move?Take slide off and barrel out, and use a punch or a pencil and see if you can move the extractor, or see if its stuck.
I was an early adopter of the g4 19 mos and had this very issue of brass smacking me in the face. Had multiple people shoot it with same results, and even put it in a ransom rest and video’d it shooting brass straight up or back.
In my case it turned out there was a burr in the extractor pocket that prevented the extractor from moving at all.
Glocks answer was to shoot it to break it in, my answer was I’m not spending more money in ammo, eyewear, and optical surgery to fix their poor machining.
They eventually replaced the entire gun. New gun has zero issues. 4k rounds and counting.
My personal favorite is when they go straight up and land between your glasses and cheek.Except for the one that clears your cranium and dive bombs down the back of your shirt. That one is responsible for some mighty inventive scatology, as well as amazing "interpretive" dance steps!
I had that happen to me on my last range trip. Friggin' hurt. Got Kudos from the range officer for keeping my pistol pointed downrange while trying to get the glasses off though.Ive done the hot brass boogie several times. Last weekend, it actually made it down the backside of my glasses lens.
Those .50's are a whole different level of pain...How bout a .50 down the back of your body armor?
7.62 between face and chin strap?
Pistol brass don’t leave permanent scars!