shooting reloads in my Glock

brickmaster1248

I posted a thread in the GD side the other day on how i was going to try out my first reloads for a Glock 17. It was 147gr GDHP with 4gr of unique. I got a mixed responses but mostly people were saying that i shouldnt shoot reloads through a Glock. I do know that lead is not a good idea in a Glock so im not going to do that. But i was just wondering is there something i dont know or should be worried about? In case your wondering i fired 5 of my reloads through the pistol and had no problems.

reloader44mag

Brick, I have shot nothing but reloads through my G21, G22, G27, I load middle of road rounds. About half of the reloads have been plated bullets from Berrys and Rainer and a typical day at the range would be not more than 200 rounds per gun before a barrel cleaning. I have NEVER, repeat NEVER had any issues with reloads in my Glocks. Glocks have a unsupported chamber design and some will say it can cause KaBooms. Like I said, keep loads in the middle of min/max powder and you will have no issues. Others will have differing opinions. I only speak from my personal experience. reloader44mag.

skyfish

I'm not a Glock expert but reloads are fine through them, I have a good friend that only shoots reloads with his 45acp. The only problem I've heard of is with the 40sw, most I know put an aftermarket barrell on them because the claim is the Glock 40sw barrell have too big of chamber that causes too muct case expansion with multiple reloadings. But 9mm and 45 are fine.

badhabithobby

Brickmaster - I shot nothing but reloads in my glock 22 - .40 cal for years. Can't recall ever having a problem with them. Always used the factory barrel. Always field cleaned the gun after each session. This is just my experience but if you follow reloader4mag advise you should have no troubles.

dcs shooters

I shoot my 124gr.jrn. reloads through my 17&34 all the time. As long as you stick with jacked bullets you will be fine.

bpost

Reloads are fine, soft lead bullets will cause issues. If you shoot plated or jacketed bullets you will be fine.

Laredo Lefty

Just about every firearms manufacturer says in their literature that comes with the guns NOT to shoot reloaded ammo. This is more of a liability statement issue to CYA themselved than anything else.

The reason Glock says not to shoot lead bullets in their guns is because lead can build up in the polyagonal rifling and create excessive pressure.

I have shot thousands of rounds of reloaded jacketed ammo thru my glocks with no problems. One of my shooting team members used lead reloads in his G17 for years with no problems.

jonk

Should be no problem. The gun doesn't know who loaded the ammo, you or the factory.

Even the 'no lead' warning makes me suspicious. The Whitworth rifle used polyagonal rifling and THAT certainly worked fine- ask some poor Yankee soldiers who got smacked down by them. I know folks with some 9mm Mak caliber pistols (forget who made them but CZ I think) that shoot lead with polyagonal rifling, no issues. I think a hard lead slug fit properly to the bore would be fine- but IF you used an undersize, too soft, or too high pressure combo, it could lead and yes, quickly cause issues.

bpost

quote:Originally posted by jonk
Should be no problem. The gun doesn't know who loaded the ammo, you or the factory.

Even the 'no lead' warning makes me suspicious. The Whitworth rifle used polyagonal rifling and THAT certainly worked fine- ask some poor Yankee soldiers who got smacked down by them. I know folks with some 9mm Mak caliber pistols (forget who made them but CZ I think) that shoot lead with polyagonal rifling, no issues. I think a hard lead slug fit properly to the bore would be fine- but IF you used an undersize, too soft, or too high pressure combo, it could lead and yes, quickly cause issues.


I had bad things happen using lead bullets in a Glock 21 factory barrel. It shot them all over hells-half acre and literally covered the bore with lead from end to end. A cut rifling barrel solved that problem.

Cooch

Don't have a Glock so can't speak to the issue...but what I CAN say is that when I reload for the old lady's Baby Eagle in .40 S&W I can tell which cases have gone thru a Glock both because of the striker mark and the fact that the reloaded cases will be slightly bulged at the base. They will not fit into a chamber guage...but WILL fit in the chamber of the Baby Eagle as well as that of a friends Springfield Armory XD40. Have loaded a couple of thousand and only had one problem...one blew up in the chamber of the Baby Eagle. Now...I have no idea if it was or was not Glock Fired before I reloaded it...or if it was cracked and I missed it when I looked at the cases....or if I "somehow" double charged it....was scary but didn't hurt a thing.

Just a note.