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Chris Z:
To test your magazine follower and magazine spring.

Put the EMPTY magazine in the UNLOADED GUN. Rip the slide back as fast as you can and let go of it so your hand keep flying back towards your chest. If the slide locks back your mag is fine. If the slide falls and fails to lock back (after trying this a couple of times) you could have a magazine issue.

Other Possible reasons for the Malfunction:

1) The gun has all stock parts, correct? Nobody put an aftermarket recoil spring/rod in the gun?

2) Dirty Magazine

3) Dirty Chamber

4) Shooting with an unlocked wrist

5) Tight Extractor

6) Deformed magazine (feed lips or side deformed)

7) Weak recoil spring




To test the recoil spring:

With the unloaded gun point the gun UP at a 45 degree angle pull the trigger and keep the trigger pulled back, pull the slide all the way to the rear. While holding the trigger back, VERY SLOWLY ease the slide forward trying to see if you can keep the slide out of battery. The gun should go completely forward into battery. IF it does not, your recoil spring is weak and should be replaced.

armed and humorous:
Chris:

Thanks for the tips.  Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to try them for a while.  Since my wrist surgery, I'm lucky if I can rack the slide at all, let alone doing it quickly.  I understand what you're getting at though. I probably can't do the recoil spring test for the same reason.  Hopefully, in another month or so, the pain will subside enough I can try these things.  Thankfully, I have some wheel guns I can carry in the mean time.  I can use my semi-autos, but I don't particularly like keeping a round in the pipe.  As a self-defense gun, I wouldn't be able to quickly rack a round so I'd have to just keep one in there if it was going to be of any value.  I know some people consider that the preferred method of carry, but I just can't get used to it.

Rich B:
My father in law can get my G26 to jam, and I think it's due to limp-wristing.

A&H, good call on using the revolver for now.  As for carrying with one in the chamber, with a Glock, unless you pull the trigger, there's practically zero chance of a discharge.  I carried mine for about a week with an empty chamber, but never came home to a gun with the trigger back.  Glock's website has info on the various passive safeties the gun has, illustrating that the firing pin will not reach the primer unless the trigger is deliberately pulled.


I shot an interesting stage in my pistol league a few weeks back.  We started out at contact distance with a target.  The gun was holstered, magazine in place, empty chamber.  At the buzzer we had to back away from the target, rack the slide, and perform a failure to stop drill.  The drill was then repeated, but this time with one in the pipe.  Most of our times dropped about 1-2 seconds when using a loaded firearm.

armed and humorous:
There's not much doubt having one in the pipe will save time in pulling and firing the weapon, and I'm not overly worried about an accidental discharge (by dropping or something).  My main concern is that having grown up "knowing" that you don't keep a round in the chamber, I'll forget whether I have on in there or not.  I'm aware that proper safety habits say you don't put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire, and I think I'm pretty good at followiing that rule.  However, I know there have been times when I had my hands full or something, but I was trying to carry my handgun along with the rest of my stuff, and the most convenient and sure way of holding on to it was to put a finger through the trigger guard.  Now, when I knew absolutely for sure the gun did not have a round in the chamber, this was "okay" to do.  All that changes when you have one in the pipe, or you're not sure how you left it last.  Old habits are hard to break.  Also, if someone happened to pick up my gun (maybe I laid it down somewhere for a second and a friend or relative who didn't know better, or someone sneaks up behind me while I'm walking my dog and pulls it from my holster), the danger is increased tremendously if there is already one in the pipe.  My friend might pull the trigger before I even knew he had the gun, or the potential mugger would (even if he/she didn't mean to).  If either had to rack one into the chamber first, I would have more time to react.  And, no matter how much they say it can't happen, nothing is impossible.

If I'm going out somewhere where the need for self-defense is relatively likely (walking my dog at night), I would likely chamber a round, because I'll be aware the whole time I'm out of the condition of that gun.  When I come home, though, and it is less likely I'll need my gun without a least a little warning, I'll pop it out for safety sake.  Trouble is, right now, it is so hard to be popping them in and out all the time, I don't want to deal with it.

BTW, I don't think I'm limp wristing when I shoot, but with the standard mag in the 26 you don't have much to hang on to, so it is a possible cause for my problems.

FarmerRick:
Kind of getting off topic here, but what would be the difference between having one in the chamber in a Glock, and a full cylinder on a revolver? 

One pull of the trigger=one cartridge fired.

Just curious.

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