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01-16-2010, 11:23 PM
Der Governator Ahnold blessed the transfer of my newest acquisition, a used Glock 23. The price was too good to say NO to--the pistol, 3 mags, and an airline-approved camera/pistol case for $375. I also scrounged a Storm Lake aftermarket barrel for it, since OEM Glock barrels in 40 S&W can have issues with reloaded ammo and cast boolits.
Once home with it, I saw that "used gun" was a barely applicable description. Field-stripped, it showed zero wear, maybe 50 rounds' worth of firing. The SL barrel fit and functioned perfectly. I established a bit of lube on the slide rails and locking surfaces, and headed to the desert with 100 rounds of factory FMJ and 100 rounds of cast Lee 175s atop 5.0 grains of Bullseye.
The G-23 showed its new status by being a little "sticky" on slide return with a full magazine at first--the slide would stop just short of fully home with 9 or 8 rounds in the mag, then function normally and flawlessly through the balance of the magazine contents. New Glocks that the deputies qualified with at my old agency did this same thing for the first 100-200 rounds, so I wasn't real alarmed at the anomaly. Just gotta SHOOT 'EM. So, I did. GLADLY. The factory barrel and the factory ammo got along very well after the 3rd magazine-full, and ran like water through a downspout.
One variable I wanted to check for with this lot of fired brass was how distended it got with the 3rd Generation barrel's chamber and supposed lack of support therefrom. Not bad at all, compared to some earlier-series Glock-fired 40 S&W brass, which had looked postively pregnant.
I swapped barrels to the SL tube, and it had the same draggy slide issue at first--then hit its stride and ran flawlessly. I was out of ammo before I was done having fun! The brass from the fully-supported chamber had zero malformation, and the barrel had zero leading. One wet patch of Hoppe's cleaned it completely.
As is my wont, I'm going to run 200-300 more rounds through the pistol before it goes in harm's way with me, but I don't anticipate any reliability problems taking the pistol out of consideration as felon repellant.
Once home with it, I saw that "used gun" was a barely applicable description. Field-stripped, it showed zero wear, maybe 50 rounds' worth of firing. The SL barrel fit and functioned perfectly. I established a bit of lube on the slide rails and locking surfaces, and headed to the desert with 100 rounds of factory FMJ and 100 rounds of cast Lee 175s atop 5.0 grains of Bullseye.
The G-23 showed its new status by being a little "sticky" on slide return with a full magazine at first--the slide would stop just short of fully home with 9 or 8 rounds in the mag, then function normally and flawlessly through the balance of the magazine contents. New Glocks that the deputies qualified with at my old agency did this same thing for the first 100-200 rounds, so I wasn't real alarmed at the anomaly. Just gotta SHOOT 'EM. So, I did. GLADLY. The factory barrel and the factory ammo got along very well after the 3rd magazine-full, and ran like water through a downspout.
One variable I wanted to check for with this lot of fired brass was how distended it got with the 3rd Generation barrel's chamber and supposed lack of support therefrom. Not bad at all, compared to some earlier-series Glock-fired 40 S&W brass, which had looked postively pregnant.
I swapped barrels to the SL tube, and it had the same draggy slide issue at first--then hit its stride and ran flawlessly. I was out of ammo before I was done having fun! The brass from the fully-supported chamber had zero malformation, and the barrel had zero leading. One wet patch of Hoppe's cleaned it completely.
As is my wont, I'm going to run 200-300 more rounds through the pistol before it goes in harm's way with me, but I don't anticipate any reliability problems taking the pistol out of consideration as felon repellant.