[Double Tap]

Yes, and Federal finally admitted they had defective ammo. They did a recall and have since fixed the problem.

[hiredhand]

OH! NO kidding?! I hadn't heard that! Do you have a link to this?..maybe a notice by Federal? I'd like to see it. ...NOT because I don't believe you, but because now Glock has some bad press to overcome on account of this because a LOT of people think these failures were due to a design flaw of their hardware.

That guy working in the shop that day told me that they'd taken in half a dozen over about 90 days which had suffered damage on account of blown case heads. The guy who we saw returning the pistol that day had an "owie" on his shooting hand, but nothing to cry over.

[MarkL]

Yes, and Federal finally admitted they had defective ammo. They did a recall and have since fixed the problem.

It's amazing what "bad" ammo can do. I was using some loads that I found off the Internet some years ago, with 165gr FMJBT (yes, Boat Tail!) 9mm bullets I found. The recoil was pretty stout, but I expected it given the heavy bullet weight. After about 5 magazines, the Taurus PT-99 I was shooting locked up. It took a while, but I was finally able to disassemble it, and it turned out that one of the 2 locking lugs had broken off, lodging it into a position where the action wouldn't cycle.

Later on, I found out that the load I was using was a +P+ submachine gun load! It was well over the 9mm proof loads!

Happily, Taurus fixed the pistol at no charge, although I didn't mention that I was shooting "home-brewed" loads.

Mark