Tips on Avoiding Your Glock Pistol to Experience a “Case Failure”
Among the most common major failures in Glocks that are reported by the owners, is the disputed “case failure” as it is well known. This could be dangerous due to the possibility of hurting the shooter or damaging the gun and can appear as a rupture of the case.
The cartridge case is the weakest part of the gun, this being the reason why failure occurs. This is valid for all kind of guns, not only Glocks can have an unexplained failure of the cartridge case. Older reports show that Browning and Ruger pistols had the same problem, long time before Glocks have taken birth. Even the 9 mm first class pistols could be in the same category. In spite of the case failure’s presence to other types of guns, Glocks remain the most discussed cases because of their widely spread nowadays.
Dangerous and fatal gun failures are the results of a few bad actions like: over-charging the cartridge or under-charging it, pulling the trigger with a clogged barrel, a weak brass, over-crimping, over-sitting, the use of low quality bullets or other gun elements, improper maintenance and care of the gun, etc. Tough the above mentioned reasons can explain a gun failure usually the case failure is responsible for most of the accidents. Furthermore, using reloaded ammunition may lead directly to case failure. Of course, as the exception strengthens the rule, there are cases when the case failure in Glocks occurs with factory Ammo, but these situations are rare.
As you can deduct from the facts presented above, the risk of case failure in Glocks or other gun damages may be diminished by using only pre-tested factory ammo. If you still like to reload your ammunition but, at the same time, want to protect yourself and your gun you should try to buy a quality after-market barrel that has a chamber which is slightly tighter in the first place, and than insure yourself that the job done by the reloading control department is professional, responsible and qualitative.
Irrespective of your ammo choices - reloaded or factory - used for Glock guns, you should give the cleaning and maintenance processes the deserved attention. Furthermore, in order to be sure that the gun is properly cleaned and lubricated you should get it to an authorized professional gun-smith to perform a check at least once a year. This way you can learn how to do the basic safety checks for your gun and get acquainted with safe gun handling procedures. You can obtain this kind of information by taking a safety training with a qualified instructor.
In the following lines you can find some additionally safety measures recommended for reloaders:
- Make sure that your reloading procedures are made by the book by refreshing your memory from time to time. Read the reloading procedures to keep in mind any precious safety tips.
- Check your brass every time you reuse it.
- Replace the brass when the damages are obvious.
- Check the brass’s provenience before using it and, for full power loads you should use a new one.
- Check the compatibility with your gun’s technical specification before beginning to use other type of bullets by using calipers and case gauges.
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