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My Glock Model 36 jammed in the first 20 rounds fired through it. On average, it jammed one round in 30, often a stovepipe. The local dealer fired 30 rounds through and it didn’t jam and I once fired nearly 60 rounds through it without a jam. Sometimes it would jam every 5 rounds or so. I cleaned it thoroughly, tried no less than 10 different ammo combinations, and scoured the blogs for information. I once drove 70 miles for the help of a firearms instructor who said he could demonstrate that the problem was my “limp wrist.” It jammed on him, too.
After trying every reasonable sounding suggestion I could find online, I sent it back to Glock with parts marked and noted that they replaced springs and several small parts. It still jammed. I couldn’t in good conscious sell it, so I decided to trade it in on another model back to the dealer where I had bought it with a full explanation of the problem. The dealer agreed, but before that happened, I had the opportunity to swap barrels with a friend’s G36. It didn’t seem to jam. Based on that experience, I bought a new OEM Glock barrel and have been testing it since. So far it has cycled through just over 650 round of 5 different brands and loads of ammo without a jam. My back deck is littered with empty .45 cases.
I still haven’t decided how much is enough to be satisfied that the problem is gone, but it looks like the problem was the barrel. Just to be sure, I swapped the original barrel back in and it jammed on the second round of the second magazine. I’ll put a couple hundred more rounds through it this afternoon.
I am posting this in hopes it helps someone with a similar problem.
After trying every reasonable sounding suggestion I could find online, I sent it back to Glock with parts marked and noted that they replaced springs and several small parts. It still jammed. I couldn’t in good conscious sell it, so I decided to trade it in on another model back to the dealer where I had bought it with a full explanation of the problem. The dealer agreed, but before that happened, I had the opportunity to swap barrels with a friend’s G36. It didn’t seem to jam. Based on that experience, I bought a new OEM Glock barrel and have been testing it since. So far it has cycled through just over 650 round of 5 different brands and loads of ammo without a jam. My back deck is littered with empty .45 cases.
I still haven’t decided how much is enough to be satisfied that the problem is gone, but it looks like the problem was the barrel. Just to be sure, I swapped the original barrel back in and it jammed on the second round of the second magazine. I’ll put a couple hundred more rounds through it this afternoon.
I am posting this in hopes it helps someone with a similar problem.
