Sig P226 slide jammed

[huckberry668]

Sounds like a reloaded round with 'Glock bulge' brass. I've seen this several times at the range and once with my own reload.

Dillon sizing die sizes farther down into a taper and seems to reduce the 'Glock bulge' better.

[Mod_monkey]

Mod_monkey, now you have me curious. Why do you think it was so tightly lodged? Was it just the angle of cartridge that happen to catch in the chamber?

i have no idea? the gun functioned flawless a couple weeks ago when i went shooting, i think its the ammo, I was using Ammobros reloads i did notice after the live round ejected there was damage to the rim where the extractor hooks onto (sorry i dont know the technical term for that part) but maybe it damaged after the fact? kinda hard to say

[huckberry668]

i have no idea? the gun functioned flawless a couple weeks ago when i went shooting, i think its the ammo, I was using Ammobros reloads i did notice after the live round ejected there was damage to the rim where the extractor hooks onto (sorry i dont know the technical term for that part) but maybe it damaged after the fact? kinda hard to say

Take a look at the lodged round you removed. I'f you see a bright ring just above the extractor groove of the case. that's the 'Glock Bulge'.

[Mod_monkey]

Sounds like a reloaded round with 'Glock bulge' brass. I've seen this several times at the range and once with my own reload.

Dillon sizing die sizes farther down into a taper and seems to reduce the 'Glock bulge' better.

makes sense! is glock bulge noticable? now i need to check every round before i load it into my mag, i still have 197 rounds of the 200 ammo bro reloads i bought

[jkody]

Why do they call it Glock bulge?

[Mod_monkey]

Take a look at the lodged round you removed. I'f you see a bright ring just above the extractor groove of the case. that's the 'Glock Bulge'.

sure enough!! there was the bright ring above the extractor groove!!! i will post a pic asap

[huckberry668]

sure enough!! there was the bright ring above the extractor groove!!! i will post a pic asap

Look thru all the reloaded ammo for bulges just above the extractor groove and remove them. There won't be a ring so you'll need to pay attention or feel it with fingers.

[huckberry668]

Why do they call it Glock bulge?

Because the Glock factory chamber is unsupported and a lot of them are over-sized in my opinion. so the brass bulges where it's unsupported.

http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=5&f=4&t=93135

99% of hard to size brass were from Glock. How do I know? the elongated firing pin strike on the primer. Every single one with the bulge after resizing was from Glock too. I had 1 gun blew up in my hands in 22 years of shooting (100ks of rounds) an it's a Glock 21. Guess where the brass ruptured... the unsupported area.

[huckberry668]

here is another link with better photos.

http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=20104

[pc_load_letter]

The slide on my Sig jammed so bad...two Sig certified armorers could not get it fixed.

Ended up sending it back to sig. The Sig gunsmith indicated that a squid round caused the barrel to bulge and it also damaged the slide.

$350 later I have a new barrel and slide, which is good or bad depending on how you look at it.

[Tarn_Helm]

Should have bought a Glock.

sure enough!! there was the bright ring above the extractor groove!!! i will post a pic asap

This story shows perfectly why a Glock is better and why spending the extra money on a Sig, H&K, or other expensive polymer frame semiauto is not worth it.

"Glock bulge" never seems to affect my Glock.

My Glock rocks.

[Turbinator]

Took a brass dowl and stuck it down the barrel and put pressure on it by pressing it on the ground and tapped the back of the frame while having pressure on the dowl and it popped free!

Glad it worked, but you tapped out a live round by putting a brass dowel down the barrel? Sounds potentially dangerous to me..

Turby

[Mod_monkey]

I guess anything could be potentially dangerous, but I took the precautions to minimize as much danger as possible, the hammer was decocked and there wasn't a a lot of pressure against the slug and I literally tapped the back of the frame not slide and it came unjammed and spit out the bad round.

I will keep spending the extra money on a Sig over a glock anyday, if its causing the casing to bulge I think I will pass. Even more of a reason why I will stay away from glock.

If you disagree then that's cool with me

[twoforme2]

Even more of a reason why I will stay away from glock.

This would be a prime reason for me to stay away from reloads built by someone else!
I don't care how big the company is or how long they have been selling them, when it comes to reloads If I didn't build it, I am not shooting it!

Glad you were able to save the Gun.

[twoforme2]

so good I said it twice! OOPS!