Question about a Glock 19

[beemerphile]

UPDATE: After numerous attempts today with loaded magazines, like 20 or 25, could only get the slide to close on it's own once. That was with a forceful slap. Other question is with 1 round in the chamber and a loaded magazine, it FTE both times I loaded it this way. When a full magazine is loaded with none in the chamber to start, it functions fine. So my question is, should Glocks be loaded with full magazine +1 or not?

My Glock 19 doesn't have this bad habit. In fact, none of them do. Did it stove pipe the empty case (failure to eject) or did it stay in the chamber and double feed (failure to extract)? Sounds like you now have two reasons for a trip back to Smyrna.

 

[whitecoyote]

What the heck is a Glock ??? Is it one of those plastic thingies ??? Shoo

Don't be silly shooboy, everybody knows what a Glock is.
It's a large attraction in Germany.

Glockenspiel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathaus-Glockenspiel

 

[NFrameFred]

See? Now they've found the thread. It will degenerate shortly and the OP will be shooed off to GlockTalk where he "belongs".

I'd get a nice J Frame instead

Well . . . ., when you put out the bait so tantalizingly, sorry, I couldn't resist !

 

[cjcutter1]

My guess is perhaps slapping the mag in with a little to much force is causeing the slide to slam shut and maybe limp wristing or antisipating the first shot is the problem with the FTE.But then again what do I know.

 

[Cyrano]

It's not normal behavior if the slide shuts when you insert a magazine. It also might be disconcerting if your finger was on the trigger. I have had Glocks since 1983 and currently have four: three 19s and a 36. None of those, even a much used 19 I bought second hand, has ever done this. Talk to Glock about it.