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I'll give that a try and see if the slide still locks up with the barrel like it's doing with the spent brass.

You guys have me feeling stupid. I don't get what you're saying about the bullet getting stuck in the barrel. Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT saying that's not it...just trying to understand, because I'm clearly having a stupid moment.   The base of the brass was pressed against the breechface of the slide so tightly that the barrel and slide were locked together when I removed the slide from the frame. For there to be that much pressure against the rear of the cartridge, it'd seem to me that bullet had to be stuck or the brass was too long. So, I get that part...what you guys are saying makes sense.   What I'm not understanding is that the recovered bullet seems way too short for this to even happen, yet clearly it did...duh. That bullet's ogive would have to be way out of whack, but I haven't checked, so maybe that's it. What I did try was putting some empty brass from the same batch of reloads into the chamber and dropping the slide. Surprised me that the gun still locked up with 5 different pieces of brass from the same batch. Not one single piece of brass is over 0.75". Isn't that weird?

Wow, I knew that Bulge Buster couldn't undo the thin spots in the brass, but I had no idea just how much that brass was stretching after a single firing. You're going to probably be beyond max case length after only using the brass twice. I hate trimming brass!!

Anything better than this one (http://jga.anschuetz-sport.com/index.php5?produktID=285&menu=105&sprache=1&produktShow=detail) has my respect. This thing has a two-stage trigger that's adjustable from 2 ounces to just over 17 ounce (yes, that's ounces...not pounds). It's definitely a sub-MOA gun, but I'm guessing $5K or so is not the ballpark we are looking for.

Good for you TMF. I'm glad you didn't subject that poor animal to a life of misery. Even after only a few days, I bet that poor pup feels like he/she won the doggy lottery already.

Cranston will make and excellent Lex Luthor. I'd actually watch a Superman movie to see that performance.

Walmart is one of the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful employers in the country for a reason. Everyone working their without a red vest or a shirt and tie can be replaced too easily for this to work. It's no surprise that their employees see no correlation between their pay and their skillset. I worked for minimum wage at one time and slowly moved up when I was in HS and never thought of that crappy job as a vehicle to wealth or a way to feed a family.

I thought they said on Talking Bad this week that he had Cerebral Palsy.

Mine is a nickname that stuck back in HS. My first name is Kevin and I ain't never been considered small, but that's not actually the reason.   I really good friend would always say "what's up big dog" if he couldn't remember your first name. If he could, you were Big John or Big Tim or whatever your first name is. I guess he didn't like the way Big Kevin, so mine got shrank to a letter. He'd say what's up Big K and it it stuck.

  My bad, didn't see that first time I read it.

High Noon Holsters has a budget model with optional tie downs that's pretty darn cheap compared to the $200 price tag I see on the premium rigs. http://www.highnoonholsters.com/Product_Line/Under_Armor/under_armor.html

I would have skipped this one, but the misses talked me into watching. As usual, she was right. I liked it. Like Sour Kraut says, we over analyze flicks. They aren't all gonna be up for an Academy Award, but I seldom like the ones that win Oscars anyway. Gimme an over the top action film with too many explosions, gratuitous violence, some occasional topless chicks, and good fight scenes over El Chocolate any day.

I buffed some contact points and installed lighter springs on a Ruger SP101 in .357 that I used to have. It was the sweetest feeling DAO trigger I ever felt. I traded it for a nice camera for my daughter, but I still miss it. I think you'll be surprised what some simple spring replacements will do to the trigger pull. The springs are cheap, so you can afford to buy an assortment of strengths and figure out how low you can go without getting failures. Polishing parts is tricky though, but I bet you could do it and save some dough. Great looking gun, BTW...I bet it's a lot of fun to shoot.

You're a bigger disappointment than my 12th grade prom date.

Thank you, I managed to score a box of Super Maximum and a box of High Velocity.

I don't appreciate "freedom-loving" members of a constantly battered group, like gun owners, harming the very group they represent. Demonstrating their rights in this case probably caused more harm than good. I suspect more people who witnessed this are convinced that gun rights supporters are a$$hats than were educated about the legality of open carry.

  I have to pay especially close attention to ogive because my main shooters are CZs. Their rifling begins closer to the chamber than any gun I've seen. I use a drop test to determine whether they will fit. I "paint" the exposed bullet with black Sharpie, drop it into the chamber of a naked barrel, give the headstamp a gentle tap with my finger and turn it upside down.   At 1.125" the ogive on these Berry's bullets is good in my CZs, there are no rifling marks on the Sharpie ink and the cartridge falls freely from the barrel. I haven't run this test on the Glock in a while. So, as soon as I get home today, I'll perform the same test and post the results.   Thanks for the input.

In case I wasn't clear enough, I was shooting reloads. Same recipe I've used thousands of times: Berry's 115 gr plated bullet over 4.2 gr of Bullseye @ 1.125" COL, crimped to 0.376".   Only oddity about the recovered round was that the primer was not seated completely and the face of the primer that gets struck was slightly flattened as a result. This is likely why the round did not go off when I pulled the trigger.   However, even with the primer not fully seated, the OAL and brass length was within spec. I'm still baffled why it locked the barrel so tightly in the slide.   I read the link above (thanks LionsFan), but it offered no definitive answer either.

I'm jealous

For the barrel to be wedged into the slide like that, I figured the stuck round must be WAY out of spec. OAL: 1.135"...well below the 1.169" max for 9mm Brass length: 0.748"...well below the 0.754 max for 9mm Only thing wrong with the round was that the primer didn't seat fully and had been flattened a little by my press...definitely not mangled, though. In fact, including the jutting primer, the brass was only 0.753", which shouldn't have had any issues with headspace. Any ideas, guys?

I took my Gen 4 Glock 17 on a rare trip to the range Monday. First round was perfect, but second round results in a click...nothing. Tried to rack the slide for the next round and it wouldn't budge. When I got it home, I took a closer look and saw nothing out of the ordinary. As much as I hated fiddling with it with a live round in chamber I had to figure out what was wrong. So, after fashioning a safe backstop with some wood, I used a wee bit more force (read: rubber mallet) and got it to move about 1/8", which was enough for me to remove the slide. After removing the recoil spring, I still had to tap the top of the barrel to get it out of the slide. I see absolutely no damage whatsoever. The gun cycles ammo by hand without getting stuck. The firing pin seems to be fine too.

I'm seeing lots of suggestions for powder charge, but no mention of what OAL for them. What OAL is assumed here? A few tenths of an inch difference can make a big difference in pressure.

kudos on the happy ending I know how much it sucks to have to sell any gun you like, but one you love really eats at ya a long time. Sold a highly customized pistol to a friend, partially because he loved the gun a lot too, but also because I needed the money for one I thought I wanted more. He promised to never sell it without giving me first dibs, but he liked it so much that I know deep down that he'll never part with it.

Maybe we'll get luck and Joe Carr will be THIS kind of guy.

Wow, I ain't been frog gigging in about 25 or 30 either. I remember how much fun it was, though. Stuff like this was all me and my dad and my uncles ever did on the weekends when I was growing up. We mostly waded creeks when we went. Y'all know how late it gets dark in the summer. We'd get started around dark and sometimes not come home til 2 or 3 in the morning. ...good times!