Glock17 Barrel for hard cast reloads

[bruce381]

I don't own a Glock. But I shoot very little commercial ammo out of any of my guns.

There's no reason reloads can't be just as safe/reliable as commercial ammo.

Yep thats right good reloads thats all I shoot even cast in a glock no problemo

[eaglemike]

Yep thats right good reloads thats all I shoot even cast in a glock no problemo

It's nice if one can afford factory stuff, but I prefer reloads that I've made. I and friends used to shoot a lot of coated lead reloads, back when only moly coated was available. In the local group, some of us shot maybe 50K per year through Glock pistols, no issue. Gotta be smart about doing stuff right, but no big deal. Only problems were when people used aftermarket parts in the pistols.
Lots of people got cranky about someone else shooting reloads through their Glock. Personally rolled stuff is usually higher quality than commercial reloads. Commercial stuff is usually loaded as cheaply as possible.

[browndude]

Vallejo gun Show this weekend got all my discretionary funds! And a new barrel came home with me. Caee is fullest supported. Just waiting on hard cast slugs from San Diego

[Dvrjon]

FIFY

I would never shoot someone else’s re-loads out of a Glock, bad idea.

[ptmn]

Here's the barrel I bought for my Glock 17:

https://www.cdnnsports.com/barrel-g17-9mm-bk-nitrd-non.html

It shoots just the same as the factory barrel in my old Gen2 Glock 17. I liked it enough to buy a 2nd barrel for my Gen3 Glock 19. That barrel shoots fine too.

[kcstott]

I would never shoot re-loads out of a Glock, bad idea.

You now that's funny as all my pistols don't shoot anything but my reloads.

The thing is don't shoot someone else's reloads unless you trust them with your life.

[kcstott]

Instead of shooting non fmj reloads thru the OEM barrel Is a 75$ ish aftermarket barrel a good choice for my G17 9mm? I don't have a chrony, yet.
And whats the good recipes for hard cast?

Here's the thing. Grab a Lyman manual and look up the loads for the same cartridge and bullet weight for jacketed and cast. and you will see that 99% of the time the max loads are identical. The other 1% are loads that are very hot or a strange cast bullet that requires a slightly reduced load and I mean .1 grain reduced. this is not for any +p or magnums obviously. But very applicable to nearly any bullet cartridge combo that is 1200 fps or lower.

[jtv3062]

I would never shoot re-loads out of a Glock, bad idea.

Was that your reload or gunshow?

[Cowboy T]

I don't know why people have this notion that you cannot shoot cast bullets out of factory Glock barrels without problems. That is NONSENSE. I know, because I do it all the time. Turns out I also cast my own bullets from wheel-weight lead and reclaimed range lead.

OP got an aftermarket barrel, so for him, the point is kinda moot. But for others who might read this thread and are wondering...yes, you can shoot cast bullets out of Glock polygonally rifled barrels just fine. The key to doing so is remembering the following.

1.) Use the proper lead alloy hardness for your round's pressure.
2.) Use the proper lube, both type and quantity.
3.) Size your bullets as large as possible, while still being able to easily chamber the round.

It really isn't that hard. Even if you've got those hard-cast bullets, the BHN 18 and up ones (Linotype, etc.), the ones with the basically useless way-too-hard-wax bullet lube, you can still save yourself by coating them in Liquid Alox/Xlox. That's what I did with some of those hard-cast, poorly lubed, store-bought cast bullets, and I was able to eliminate the vast majority of the lead-fouling problems. So, even proper lube can save you sometimes from a too-hard lead alloy.

[bohoki]

gotta be honest with baked on powder coat paint lead alloy has become irrelevant

[BIGOX]

gotta be honest with baked on powder coat paint lead alloy has become irrelevant

Well not irrelevant but PC has definitely changed everything for the better. Allowing you to cast a much softer alloy and bring cost down while providing a proper lube to eliminate leading. Lyman #2 and Linotype alloys may still be needed depending on the mould or bullet design but that would be more for trying to get the boolits to drop at a specific diameter.

Anyways, I also cast for 9mm and many other calibers so reloading lead projectiles has become my main sorce of ammo and I would be more concerned at what the Glock dose to my brass then anything else.

[smoothy8500]

It seems the issue in the past with cast lead had to do with the polygon rifling being more prone to leading. Perhaps back in the 1990s, people were casting softer lead bullets back then. Now most people buy hard-cast and/or coated projectiles. We don't really hear about Kabooms caused by leaded barrels anymore.