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Jeannie bought a new Glock 43 and decided to use it for our class at Cerberus. On Saturday she fired about 125 rounds without any noticeable issues. These were the first rounds through the gun since new. I didn't inspect the brass because there weren't any noticeable problems. We cleaned it that night and proceeded to shoot about 400 more rounds the next day. Towards the end of the day she had four failures-to-fire. They were not consecutive, not even out of the same mag load, but probably over the course of an hour or so; we didn't really note the time. She picked up a couple of them and tossed them in the range box and I got the other two when we were picking up brass at the end of the day.
Upon inspection to see what happened I noticed that the primer strikes were way out of center on the four rounds (see picture, only three rounds, can't find the fourth.). Got some time this evening to look through the rest of her brass and found another twenty or so that are also out of center, though not nearly as bad as the FTF's (See second picture). The third picture is a small group of the rest that I would consider normal. Tonight after clearing the gun I tried to get it to dry-fire out-of-battery and it will. If I push the slide back until the barrel drops about .030"-.040" the gun will still fire. I then tried a G26, G19 and G27 and they all do it as well, though maybe not quite as far out-of-battery.
A test of four models of Star, a Kimber, a PA-63 and a Walther P-1 showed that none of them would fire once the slide and barrel had separated even the slightest amount. A couple of the Stars would drop the hammer but the slide had moved enough that it interfered with it reaching the firing pin.
She purchased this intending for it to be a carry gun, but a 1% FTF rate is certainly unacceptable for that.
I don't think it is far enough out-of-battery to be hazardous so we intend to test it further and keep close track of the brass and see if we can learn anything more.
For those that may ask; yes they are reloads. Range brass, Tula primers (both nickel and brass; a subject for another thread), 6.4 gr HS-6, 124 gr. X-treme plated bullet, loaded on a Dillon 550.
My questions are;
Is there anything besides out-of-battery that would make some of the strikes out of center??
Anyone else with a G43 have this problem??
Is there anything I should try to do to fix it??
Any other thoughts or ideas??
Long post, thanks for reading!!
Upon inspection to see what happened I noticed that the primer strikes were way out of center on the four rounds (see picture, only three rounds, can't find the fourth.). Got some time this evening to look through the rest of her brass and found another twenty or so that are also out of center, though not nearly as bad as the FTF's (See second picture). The third picture is a small group of the rest that I would consider normal. Tonight after clearing the gun I tried to get it to dry-fire out-of-battery and it will. If I push the slide back until the barrel drops about .030"-.040" the gun will still fire. I then tried a G26, G19 and G27 and they all do it as well, though maybe not quite as far out-of-battery.
A test of four models of Star, a Kimber, a PA-63 and a Walther P-1 showed that none of them would fire once the slide and barrel had separated even the slightest amount. A couple of the Stars would drop the hammer but the slide had moved enough that it interfered with it reaching the firing pin.
She purchased this intending for it to be a carry gun, but a 1% FTF rate is certainly unacceptable for that.
I don't think it is far enough out-of-battery to be hazardous so we intend to test it further and keep close track of the brass and see if we can learn anything more.
For those that may ask; yes they are reloads. Range brass, Tula primers (both nickel and brass; a subject for another thread), 6.4 gr HS-6, 124 gr. X-treme plated bullet, loaded on a Dillon 550.
My questions are;
Is there anything besides out-of-battery that would make some of the strikes out of center??
Anyone else with a G43 have this problem??
Is there anything I should try to do to fix it??
Any other thoughts or ideas??
Long post, thanks for reading!!