Any day on the range is a good day.  Our range is on a river flood plane, it just dried out enough to walk down.  It was raining yesterday but I went anyway, used up 200 rounds of .38.  If the mud ever dries up around here I will bring the shooting benches down to sight the scoped guns in properly.  This winter I kept shooting via snowmobile and snowshoes, it will be nice to have the benches set up so I can have a place to set my coffee.

First, I don't know what is going on in the ammo industry but there is

alot of reports latley.

 

Next, would call Glock and tell them, and keep that case and the rest

of the ammo because they will want to see it. Most likey you will get

everything new except the frame. If it is ammo that caused it they will

settle up with the ammo maker. You will have no recourse if you continue

to shoot this gun without having it cheked out first.

 

Lastly, if your barrel is factory, at this point I'm 99% sure it is, the

40 cal Glock barrel is cut away at the ramp more than any other, great

for reliable feeding but this leaves alot of the case unsupported causing

case head ruptures in some ammo. Alot of Glock 40 cal shooters use

the aftermarket barrels that are fully supported. Anyway, Glock has been

real good about taking care when this happens so give them a

call and most likley they will send a shipping label as well.

 

-Blacktop

That reminds me, If you call Glock do not mention if you did or ever

have shot reloads. They will not do any warranty work if reloads have

been used.

 

-Blacktop

Yep, case rupture. I had a recent experience with a couple of those. The

first one taught me to wear my eye wear and the second taught me to

let experts with proper equipment diagnose the problem.

 

Give a Kudo's to Colt firearms, as soon as I called them on my problem

they immediatly emailed me a shipping label and basically sent me back

a new gun with a little extra fit, trigger and polish than I had purchased.

 

My case ruptures end up being due to ammo, Colt sent cases from 6

Federal proof loads and I shot some extra heavy loads from RSN and

Buffulo Bore with no sign's but when I re-test Double Tap (this is the

ammo that ruptured twice) I got severely bulging case's. A couple was

all I needed to see and sent 5 boxes back for a refund. Weak brass was

said to be culprit, but Double Tap never bothered to call back with their

finding so don't think I will bother to call back with another order

 

But sometimes ruptures can be due to unsupported barrel due to feeding

ramp being cut back to much, this is not a problem with most of the shelf

ammo out there but if your shooting warm or upper level loads this is where

trouble will show it's ugly head.

 

Here is am example of the Glock feeding ramp.

 

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Now I have recently read that some time in 2009-2010 Glock redesigned

the ramp to pic above.

 

-Blacktop

 I have read on many other' boards about Glock owner's experiences,

 some have gotten return labels some not. depends on the person

on the other end of the line. Call them back and tell them you checked into

shipping it and the cost is going to run you $65-$70 and ask if they could

send you a call tag or shipping label and that you would be glad to reimburse

them for their cost being how they can get it shipped cheaper than you.

 

You may get a CS rep that says don't worry about it and send you one

for nothing. But if you do have to pay it would be worth the piece of mind

to know you gun is a 100% when you get it back. 

 

Just curious, what ammo and load were you using when this happened ?

 

-Blacktop