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Happy Memorial Day to all! I decided to spend it shooting a couple of new firearms I've added to the inventory with my old man.
I would just like to let it be known, I am a long time reader and seller on here, but first time poster. Please go easy on me if I'm just missing something completely obvious with what I am about to ask for help with.
I have been shooting for over a couple of decades, have built more ARs than I can count on all my fingers and toes, I'm a former active duty Army infantry sergeant with 27 months spent in Iraq. I am not new to guns, shooting, building or modding guns at all.
BUT, I am new to Glocks. Have been a HK fanboy since 2003 and recently got into the Gucci Glock game.
I have a Grey Ghost Precision Compact Combat Pistol and a Glock 43. The Grey Ghost CCP is stock from GGP and the 43 has an Agency trigger, Hyve mag release, and a Suarez Internation SI-43 RMR slide. I took both out to my secret shooting spot in the woods today expecting to break them in but found myself scratching my head and not feeling anywhere near comfortable to use either for a bedside blaster or CCW.
BOTH pistols experienced light primer strikes resulting in hang fires. Something I noticed with Glocks is they have a rectangular slit on the breech face where the firing pin comes out. I was getting primer strikes all over the primer, way off center. I have never seen this before with any previous handguns I have owned or used. I have always seen a circular hole where a circular firing pin comes out, striking the primer dead center. The primer hits from both of these guns were off center. Is that normal for Glocks?
I have RMRs on both of these pistols, I was trying to get the red dots dialed in so I was holding the pistol steady and slowly pulling on the trigger and thats when I would get the failures to fire due to light primer strikes. The GGP-CCP has a CMC trigger and the 43 an Agency. This happened 6 times with the Grey Ghost and 3 times with the 43. I used several makes of ammo from Speer, Winchester, and Sig and it did not matter what ammo it was. It happened with all of them. However, when pulling the trigger like normal and not a slow pull, they went bang, just not when going for a slow, precision shot.
I also had issues with the magazines coming out while shooting the 43. No, my fingers or hand were not engaging the magazine release during firing. I am definitely disappointed with how today went down and am seeking help from anyone that knows what the problems are and how I can fix them on my own, or if I need to send these off for repair (which I hate doing). Do I need new, stronger springs anywhere or what can be causing this happen? I am confident it is not user error, as I've done the slow trigger pull with every pistol I've ever owned when sighting in. The CMC trigger is a horrible trigger with how much slack you have to take up before it breaks, but I was very confused as the Agency had the same thing happen when slowly pulling it as well.
I would just like to let it be known, I am a long time reader and seller on here, but first time poster. Please go easy on me if I'm just missing something completely obvious with what I am about to ask for help with.
I have been shooting for over a couple of decades, have built more ARs than I can count on all my fingers and toes, I'm a former active duty Army infantry sergeant with 27 months spent in Iraq. I am not new to guns, shooting, building or modding guns at all.
BUT, I am new to Glocks. Have been a HK fanboy since 2003 and recently got into the Gucci Glock game.
I have a Grey Ghost Precision Compact Combat Pistol and a Glock 43. The Grey Ghost CCP is stock from GGP and the 43 has an Agency trigger, Hyve mag release, and a Suarez Internation SI-43 RMR slide. I took both out to my secret shooting spot in the woods today expecting to break them in but found myself scratching my head and not feeling anywhere near comfortable to use either for a bedside blaster or CCW.
BOTH pistols experienced light primer strikes resulting in hang fires. Something I noticed with Glocks is they have a rectangular slit on the breech face where the firing pin comes out. I was getting primer strikes all over the primer, way off center. I have never seen this before with any previous handguns I have owned or used. I have always seen a circular hole where a circular firing pin comes out, striking the primer dead center. The primer hits from both of these guns were off center. Is that normal for Glocks?
I have RMRs on both of these pistols, I was trying to get the red dots dialed in so I was holding the pistol steady and slowly pulling on the trigger and thats when I would get the failures to fire due to light primer strikes. The GGP-CCP has a CMC trigger and the 43 an Agency. This happened 6 times with the Grey Ghost and 3 times with the 43. I used several makes of ammo from Speer, Winchester, and Sig and it did not matter what ammo it was. It happened with all of them. However, when pulling the trigger like normal and not a slow pull, they went bang, just not when going for a slow, precision shot.
I also had issues with the magazines coming out while shooting the 43. No, my fingers or hand were not engaging the magazine release during firing. I am definitely disappointed with how today went down and am seeking help from anyone that knows what the problems are and how I can fix them on my own, or if I need to send these off for repair (which I hate doing). Do I need new, stronger springs anywhere or what can be causing this happen? I am confident it is not user error, as I've done the slow trigger pull with every pistol I've ever owned when sighting in. The CMC trigger is a horrible trigger with how much slack you have to take up before it breaks, but I was very confused as the Agency had the same thing happen when slowly pulling it as well.
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