Must have around 4000-5000 trouble free rounds though it with absoutly NO issues what so ever.
I bought a Gen4 Glock 26 and at that time, cleaned, lubed, and “mothballed” the Gen3 Glock 26 in question here.
I just pulled it out last night and noticed something truely perplexing!
When I load the chamber with a fresh round and then wnat to eject that same unfired round I can get the slide back about 3/4 of the way and then we hit “full stop”. Wont budge unless I jack the livin shit out of it. It will do this all through the mag each and every time.
If I take the mag out, the gun cycles fine. I thought it must be the mag, but it happens on every mag I could find (and that is a lot). I swapped out and tested new mag catches, trigger w/ trigger bars, connectors. I see no cracks or obviously broken areas.
I absoutly can NOT figure out what the hell could have happened to make this start.
I would appreciate ANY thoughts on this prior to me sening this gun in to Glock.
Re the use of live ammo to figure this out, I agree. I found the issue on the range when I needed to make my weapon safe and couldnt clear the damn chamber!
I have moved on to snap caps as it still gives me the same issues.
All factory WWB 115 fmj range ammo. I have thousands of this very round through this gun with no issues. I cant see it being ammo related in this case.
Long shot: is your slide release installed correctly? Sometimes people will put the largest pin in first, and the spring on the slide release will not be properly retained by the smaller block pin.
I don’t usually post, but, that made me laugh like hell.
It is obviously a magazine related stopage. I don’t mean it is related to your actual magazine, but it is catching on something that protudes only when a magazine is inserted. Do it slowly and examine the parts, maybe you can see what it catches on? What happens if no rounds are in the mag or chamber?
Try putting some Prussian Blue on the on all contact surfaces and cycle the action, it will leave bright blue streaks where there is heavy metal on metal contact or abnormalities on the surface in question. It is little known outside of the realm of machinists. Most auto parts stores can get it, but be patient as the guys behind the counter rarely have a clue what it is (unless they’re 50+ years old).
Good luck.
ETA: If you Google “permatex prussian blue” you can just order it online for $4-$7).
This sounds just like something that happened to my friend. He’s got a 30sf. Same exact symptoms. I looked at it and found the head of the case was hitting the round in the mag. The head of the round would drop down below the feed bar (pictured above in another post). Remove the mag and you’re good to go. tried every part I had on hand Mags, locking block, diff types of ammo,dummy rounds, extractor, edp, everything but the slide, frame and barrel. So he takes it to glock, (we’re in ATL) because there was a 6-8 week turn around for shipping it to them. they replaced the RSA and said it was ok. It was NOT! I showed him the problem and I don’t think He relayed it to the tech at glock or maybe they didn’t give him the opportunity. He has yet to take it back… This was the first time I’d seen or heard of it until this. He, like you, hasn’t done anything out of the ordinary. It just happened. So it would seem it’s not model or caliber specific. If I get anymore info I’ll post it.
I did this earlier today. I have a NIB Gen3 Glock 26 in my safe. Swapped frame/slides for each and had no problems. Put the problem 26 back with its matching frame/slide and the issue was magically lessened? In looking at it more closely it seems that possibly the elevated “ramp” that sits under the top of the slide that runs vertically up the breach face was somehow catching the next round somehow.
So, I stripped out my slide and with a dremel/felt polishing wheel and some Flitz gently polished those areas, slapped her back togehter and BAM! Hand cycles again. Who the phuck knows, weird shit for sure. I dont shoot this gun much anymore since I got my Gen4 Glock 26 (that has been perfect btw, knock on wood). I will probably trade it in next year with my annual GSSF purchase and get a back up Gen4 -26 for next to nothing out of pocket.
Just thought you all would like an update. Hopefully it dosent start up again!
