This is not the update I intended to file, and it’s just a short note as I’ve not yet had an opportunity to take the gun apart and examine exactly what is going wrong.
Yesterday morning during an Aim Fast, Hit Fast class my Glock stopped working. After firing a single round as part of the morning F.A.S.T. run, the striker would not release when the trigger was pulled. The striker would move backwards (I could tell because the Gadget was moving) but the gun would never fire. After pulling the trigger twice I tried a tap-rack and gun still wouldn’t fire.
I switched to my backup G17 for the rest of the day. During lunch, I swapped slides and determined that:
- the backup frame with the test gun slide worked
- the test gun frame with the backup slide didn’t work
So it’s pretty safe to assume the problem is in the frame. I’ll take it apart this evening when I get home from Georgia. Odds are it’s either the (stock) trigger bar or the (Lone Wolf) connector. I don’t know the exact round count off the top of my head but will be able to calculate that when I get home, too. It’s right around 60,000.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
Oops. Not what I expected.
Look forward to reading the diagnosis!
Safe to say though that a small part like that, after replacement, the gun should function just fine. It’s not a game breaker like the slide breaking with your M&P. Interested as to what happened.
I’m sure this will turn out to be a very minor problem, easily fixed and that the pistol will continue to run indefinitely.
Sure would be nice to move on though. I know Glocks will shoot fifty or a hundred thousand rounds without major problems. That’s as close to a gimme as you can get.
What I’m curious to know is whether the FNS-9 will do the same and whether it might be a legitimate contender to the Glock, the M&P and yes, even the superb P30.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Broken trigger return spring?
Keep it stock
and the Glock
will rock!
Gaston cursed you after the Sears/Rosie blog entry.
This test is a waste of time everybody knows that the Glock will go Hundreds of thousands of rounds and this is a pointless test…
Oh wait a minute. (And yes, I own a Glock, I just found it humorous that anyone would concldue that their gun would absolutely finish a test of this magnitude).
I was excited for the gun updates to return, not excited about this one exactly. Does that mean we’ll get another update shortly?
Haha… JodyH for the win!!!
+1 for JodyH
If the striker moves when you pull the trigger but does not release, then you most likely have a broken connector. I’d bet money that the Lone Wolf connector crapped out.
Take it into Sears and see if they will fix it.
Very interested in whether it was the LW connector. Jeff at GlockTriggers.com made point of saying he would never trust a LW or any non-Glock connector in a carry gun.
“Not a game breaker like the cracked m&p slide…”
I’d say a parts failure that could not be recovered from without tools is actually quite a game-breaker compared to a parts failure that still allowed the pistol to function.
Shhhh ddbaxte…don’t disabuse Adam of his notion that his Glock *must* be better than the M&P. 😉