Light primer strike, glock 30....

[omeganman]

Hey everyone,

Maybe someone could verify a misfire cause/solution for me. Today I went shooting with my Glock 30. The first couple times I tried to shoot, nothing would happen. The first thing I did was treat it as a crap round and cycled the slide for the next round. Same thing happened. Upon inspecting the primers of both the rounds, I could see a light dent from the firing pin. I thought it was unlikely to get two bad rounds right after the other like that and that it was probalby a lack of drive from the firing pin, so I disassembled the gun, looked for any obvious issues (which there were none) and reassembled. At this point I figured that bad rounds are unlikely, and the issue probably had to with my cleaning and assembling the day before I hit the range. Being a Glock with such simple assembly, I figured I had not cycled the slide fully when assembling, so it may not have been totally seated where it needed to be ( I really don't know, I'm just pissing in the dark for a reason), because when I reassembled at the range, I made sure to move the slide fully back and forward.
After that, it shot wonderfully with no issues.
I would like some input. Is my assumption of what happened correct? I would like to narrow this down to ensure it doesn't happen again since this is my home defense weapon.

[Shenaniguns]

Is the striker area clean and DRY? Tons of people put lube in that area when they are not suppose to use any.

[DRAB_81]

Couple questions that might help:

What kind of ammo?

Were they reloads? What primer?

Did you fire the rounds that produced the light strikes?

Did they fire the second time through?

I have a little over 1000rds (everything from Blazer Aluminum to RA45TP) through my G30SF, and I've never encountered light strikes. My guess would be either due to bad ammo, hard or high primers, or something small boogering up the firing pin channel.

[G-forceJunkie]

What ammo? Factory or reloads? Did you try and put it back in and fire the same round again? Define your "cleaning and assembling." Field strip, or did you strip it past the point that only Glock Armors are supposed to? When it was not firing, did you see if the firing pin tip was protruding if you pressed the saftey plunger in and pushed the striker forward? Is the inside of the slide oily and/or grunged up?

[sirgiles]

is your glock new?
any mods?
if stock, try other ammo.
only time i had light primer strikes on a stock glock was when i used cci primers on my reloads.

[sammy]

Is the light strike centered on the primer? I am willing to bet it is off center. This is simply a failure to feed. Glocks (mine anyway) will release the striker slightly out of battery but will not give enough contact to fire the round. This mostly happens on new pistols that need more break-in. Give it 500 more rounds or if you are impatient remove the extractor and polish the breach face. That should take care of the problem.

[fuenstock]

I recently got my first Glock 19 3 weeks ago. The first 50 rounds I had 3 FTF and 2 light strikes that didn't set off the round. A second attemp did set those 2 light strikes off. This was with Blazer bronze. After those first 50 troubled rounds, Im now at around 500 rounds with zero problems with every thing from WWB, Blazer brass, blazer bronze, UMC, some reloads and some hot +p rounds. Hopefully your problem goes away like it did for me.

[omeganman]

Thank you everyone for getting back to me. I am new to forums and didn't realize I was getting answers, I thought I'd be notified by email that there had been replies.

The strikes seemed to be located in the center. The ammo was purchased new from the gun club and not reloaded. When I had dissembled the gun, I had only gone as far as what was in the manual, which was the simple slide and spring dis-assembly. I acquired the AGI video for the Glock and ended up dissembling it further as per the video instruction. I found a lot of grime within the firing pin assembly that is not accessible otherwise. Since cleaning all of this and reassembling, I have not had a repeat occurrence of the issue.

[Oceanbob]

Thank you everyone for getting back to me. I am new to forums and didn't realize I was getting answers, I thought I'd be notified by email that there had been replies.

The strikes seemed to be located in the center. The ammo was purchased new from the gun club and not reloaded. When I had dissembled the gun, I had only gone as far as what was in the manual, which was the simple slide and spring dis-assembly. I acquired the AGI video for the Glock and ended up dissembling it further as per the video instruction. I found a lot of grime within the firing pin assembly that is not accessible otherwise. Since cleaning all of this and reassembling, I have not had a repeat occurrence of the issue.

Grime is the problem. Don't oil the stricker channel; all it does is collect Grime.

I recently bought a used 17 that had never been cleaned. I took it all the way down and was surprised at how much 'oil mud and crud' was in the firing pin hole. It covered a couple of Q tips with black crud.

I love my Glock 30. Seriously a very accurate weapon.

Have fun!
Bob

[omeganman]

I'll always be a fan!

[zfields]

Is the striker area clean and DRY? Tons of people put lube in that area when they are not suppose to use any.

that would be my first guess also. Ran into that on my XD 45 when I first got it also.

[1911su16b870]

No lube on Glock rearward of the breach face!

Glocks do not need alot of lube.

[omeganman]

I'm pretty light with the lube, only whats instructed.