IMO, the current Gen 5’s are well worth the upgrade over the previous generations if you have the means to do so for many reasons listed above (trigger, ejection/extraction, consistency of precision, ergonomics)
IMO, the current Gen 5’s are well worth the upgrade over the previous generations if you have the means to do so for many reasons listed above (trigger, ejection/extraction, consistency of precision, ergonomics)
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I've been getting slammed for saying the same thing for years. Probably well over 65% of the 300 or so officers we saw each year were carrying Glocks. Until I read it on the internet I didn't know that Glock BTF was a thing except for the occasional problem shooter. We generally corrected those problems by working with their grip. I'm not saying a Glock doesn't eject one into the forehead or face on occasion, just that I've never seen it as a Glock specific problem.
In mulling this over, I've considered that perhaps it was because during the Gen 1, 2, and 3 days we were shooting 147gr equivalent of the Federal HydraShok round, but a year or so before I retired we switch to 124gr and that didn't seem to cause the BTF problems.
I'm wondering if there is any relationship to cadence/rate of fire?
Glock ejection was always marginal but BTF did not really become a thing until the late gen 3/early Gen4 guns. It generally corresponded to the switch to the LCI or "dip" extractors and a corresponding change in small parts suppliers.
Changes to the ejector (336 to 30274) and improved QC on the LCI extractors generally addressed it but Glock ejection was never great (until the latest gen5) so it became "lore."
If anyone else can't remember what the cut look like (I couldn't), there's a decent picture of the breech face cut buried in the yuge Glock Gen 5 thread, dated October 2018:
https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....l=1#post805188
Last edited by RJ; 09-27-2020 at 06:41 AM.
Interesting that such a small change has such an impact on performance. Any information on why? Does it cam the case back a bit so the ejector can fling the case further?
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Been carrying and shooting nothing but Glocks for over 10 years and never had the ejection issue. I would love to have one to play with to see what I could do to solve the problem so if anyone has a 9mm you want to sell cheap, PM me, I'll be happy to take it off your hands.
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