madsmit said:
The comment about the steel comes from a report that an ex Glock rep made the statement that the Glock barrels were not hardened. I forget the perfect term that was used. The non hardened steel is fine for 9mm, but when higher pressures are encountered, it just wasn't enough.
Contrary to what Glockophiles want to believe, it is not lead ammo causing the KB's. But there have been some KB's attributed to weak brass on I think Federal ammo. Factory ammo was being used in some KB's.
Read the scoop.
http://www.thegunzone.com/glock/gindex2.html
The mods and admins want more people to post? That link will cause the Glockovics to come out of the woodwork.
I like ol' Dean's work - he's
very funny and quite knowledgeable - but he's been trying to make a third career as a Glock basher for about fifteen years now. Heck, I even remember his review, twenty years ago, of the Glock 17L as "Waldo Lydecker."
So, help a poor dumb Glockophile/Glockovic understand. If it was weak brass...what does that have to do with the strength of the barrel steel? Anyway, defective ammo is hardly the fault of the gun.
The issue with lead bullets is pretty well-known. Even Glock warns against using them right in the user manual.
No gun is perfect, advertising notwithstanding, but the kaBoom phenomenon (which
does exist) has been exaggerated on the internet to wild proportions. Glock is just one of those guns that few people are neutral about, and the people who don't like it seem to seize on the kaBooms, which comprise a tiny percentage of the total number of Glock .40s in circulation.