Glock "situation"

[JMB1911]

That is weird. You can always just replace the slide with the internal parts from your Glock. Lone Wolf sells stainless steel slides.

http://www.lonewolfdist.com/Products.aspx?CAT=247

Best of luck to you.

[Waldo]

For some reason, I was thinking reloads. How hot do you loads your .45's? Did you notice anything strange w/ the spent brass? Whatever the case, I hope Glock takes care of you.

The spent brass from the gun was normal. In a class I was in a short time ago, the instructor had told us to check the spent casings from students guns. If the firing pin strikes were off center on shooters using Glocks, we were to pull that shooter off the line right away as that meant the gun was beginning to fire out of battery.

[Waldo]

Please share what generation G21 that is. I have one of the early G21 w/o the finger grooved grips. When something like that happens it definitely needs to get looked at.

JTROKS...

It's a Gen 3..finger grooves and light rail...the other 21 I had was an early one and worked well..never had a problem with it...

[Waldo]

That is weird. You can always just replace the slide with the internal parts from your Glock. Lone Wolf sells stainless steel slides.

http://www.lonewolfdist.com/Products.aspx?CAT=247

Best of luck to you.

Thanks for the link...I'm going to look into that as an option

[JTROKS]

Oh! Cool! My early model G21 is also very accurate. Thanks for the info.

[bohoki]

wow that is some symetrical metal fatigue

it kind of looks how a pellet gun makes tempered glass look you know them divots ont eh inside

[tonelar]

When you dry fire, are you releasing the slide as well?

Isn't dry firing part of the field strip sequence for all glocks ?

[1lostinspace]

so how long have you been reloading?

[dasmi]

Dry firing should not cause that. Contact Glock, they'll fix it.

[8200rpm]

Now, that's a Glock torture test you just have to see.

[vega]

Check Glocktalk, there were reports of same failure.

[REDHORSE]

FYI - There is a GSSF match in Norco (SOCAL 91 fwy & 15 fwy) this weekend.

There will be a Factory Glock armorer with plenty of parts. He will look at your gun for FREE and may repair/upgrade any parts that need replacing. More than likely he won't even charge you for the parts. You don't even have to be participating in the match.

I didn't see how bad the damage was when I first looked at the pic. Now that I see it's more serious. If your in SOCAL, I still would go to the GSSF match and have them look at it. If anything, it'll save you money from having to ship the slide to the factory. They can take it back to the factory when the return back to home base @ the factory after the match.

[1lostinspace]

Now, that's a Glock torture test you just have to see.

yeah your gun is perfect

[Z ME FLY]

I have a G29 that I dry fire A LOT every night for an hour or two. But then again most of the time I use snap caps.

[ar15barrels]

I've had the gun since 1997, and conservatively would say there's between 25k to 30K rounds through the thing, with dry firing at least that amount.

That certainly COULD be from dry firing.
Actual use with live ammo will not cause that kind of force from inside the slide because the primer takes much of the firing pin's blow.
Same thing with snap caps protecting the inside of the slide.