JOHNNYGLOCK

would this help http://www.glockwarehouse.com/product_p/zt-reducer.htm ? the reducing ring and a captive ISMI rod with a 13lb flat spring sounds like the ticket to me for use with 9 minor.

I finally had a chance to shoot some Fed 100 out of my G17 and this is what I found. The load was a 115grFMJ, 5.9-6.0 power pistol (max in my manual is 6.7 for 31,000psi) mixed brass, the fed 100's and some wolf SP. First a started with a 4lb wolff striker spring (reduced) and a stock striker shot about 50rds and all went good at first glance of the brass, back to that in a min. Next i tryed the wolf SP with same spring and shot till I had a FTF, that only took about 25rds. Than I put the OEM spring back in and shot 30rds of the fed's again, and then looked at all the brass and had 4 primers that pierced and 2 were very evident with a big hole, you could see the side of the anvil. So i stoped and put the 4lb spring back in and shot another 100rds with the fed SP and they all went BANG. I picked up all that brass and went home, later that night I looked at all of this brass closer (I kept it all separate) and out of 150 I found about 8 or 10 that had pierced with the light spring and stock striker. the head stamp of those were marked FEDERAL +p+/ SD 9x19/ a couple of R.P./ and 1 SPEER. the hole was not as big as those with the OEM spring but were blackened and did have a small needle size hole. The striker looks fine and is not damaged. So in conclusion I think the FED's do pierce in a Glock, I'm not saying don't use them but if you do you will be better served with a reduced striker spring (got my pull to 3lbs with a (-) connector) and plan on changing your striker sooner with this set up. next I will try my .40 major loads as stated above trying different springs but I expect the same results, let me know if any one would like me to post my results.

I have a KKM in a 35 and works great, tight chamber I was haveing some trouble at first with range pick up brass but after I started checking the rounds with a lyman gauge it has ran great. I hear mixed things on lone wolf, sounds like their not that consistent and you may have to get it reamed. Not going to stop me from getting a .357 sig from L.W. However if lead is no concern or bulged brass I think the Glock barrels are the best out their.

Have you ever checked your base pads on a EGW gauge, and if so did they fit? I got bumped when mine didn't fit!

Sierra's run about 1 c note for 500, never tried the hornady 75's. 24.5gr of R-15 and a CCI 400 is just to sweet of a pill to change!

1+ OK. Get yourself a "armorers" slide cover plate. Or make one out of a stock cover plate. It's just a regular plate with the bottom half cut off. Get a good bright little flashlight. Install the plate, and LOOK at how the parts relate to each other when you rack the slide, dryfire and reset the gun. You can see the firing pin safety by looking through the magazine opening. If you have stock parts, install them and LOOK. What's different between the stock and high zoot triggers? Leave the half cover plate on and shoot it. When the trigger malfs (you did say it did it one in 10?) CAREFULLY--the gun it hot!--look and see what's different. Take it slow--pay attention to the little things--you will figure it out.

yes it is always a good idea to keep spare parts around especially at a match, but with that being said their is not much that will stop a Glock altogether. I wonder how long mine will last? I think my striker may find its way back in my gun when I head to the range for some practice!

I have a new striker on order and for now I will only use the fed's with the 9 about 130PF. I to prefer the win caps will have to find more of them only have about 1500 left.

Ive been told fed primers are fine with minor loads but to stay far away from them in major PF? Also if the primer was piecrced the damage has been done to stricker and it will only get worse ect, good idea to replace the stricker forsure. Ive done a great deal of research on this here lately due to possiably same issue my way? This happend in your pistola to? I wonder why you don't hear about it in fed factory loads. I also notice that while the feds seat fine in most brass they are hard getting into winchester brass, I have a freind who is not as meticulous as I but has popped a few on his 650 with win brass. I hear that 9mm strikers are a lil shorter than the ones that are in the .40's so maybe switching them would help, just a thought.

Thanks for all the feedback! This load is not to hot, and not minor either. I get about 975-1000 f.p.s. out of it, at the match I was a 175PF. This has been consistent for the last two years with whatever primer i have used. I guess its just time for a new one but I only have about 3500 rounds threw the gun, its still a baby. like I said before I think I only have five pieces of brass from the match and in that five one does look like it has a pierced primer. One of my buddys was an RO for the match and got a lot of brass so I asked him if he could find any of mine to compare as mine are marked. I still have a few hundred .40 loaded and tonight I will load some 9's for my G17 and try them this weekend at a steel match. If I buy a lwt striker can I still use the Glock striker spring. I have played with some trigger bar's and I can get the pull down to 2-21/2lbs but when I add a lwt striker spring it goes down to 11/2lbs and that is to light for me. so should I just get a factory striker and save the money or is the lwt striker worth the extra few bucks? Also who has the cheapest OEM stikers Brownells has them for around $40, any one have them cheaper than that?

I bought my first 5k federal 100 primers and shot about 300 in my G35 which is stock except for a KKM barrel. the load was a 180 P.Delta at 1.135" power pistol at 6.3gr mixed brass that has about .418"-.420" crimp and the 100 primers. after shooting about 100 in practice and 200 at a match I took the gun home and noticed that the trigger pull felt gritty, so I opened it up and saw way more carbon build up than normal. I than took the slide apart and had trouble getting the extractor out, after I did get it out I looked at the striker and noticed it was way to black. The hole front of the striker channel was very dirty also much more than normal after just 300 rounds. while cleaning the striker I noticed the front melted some what in that it doesn't come to much of a point any more and has 2 dents on the tip that look like it was caused buy the anvil of the primer. So I looked at the striker on my G22 and the G35 is definitely damaged. After I load my ammo I turn them upside down and mark them so I know what is mine and to check primer position, than they go to the case gage. I have shot many thausands of rounds with CCI, WSP, and wolf primers but this is the first with Federal, and I know that federal are the softest and this is why I bout them. I was thinking that they would be best for a striker gun and if I ever played with the trigger pull that feds would be the best to use. Has anyone ever had this problem? It seems to me that the striker was puncturing most of the primers and because it was a major match didn't collect any of my brass. My next question is if I buy a light steel striker can I still use the factory spring? Any insight to this would be helpful. THANKS, JOHN

Nick, Just to let you know you are not alone in your frustration, I to was at that match and got bumped to open with the same mag setup Bud was not picking on you. I couldnt agree more in that if their is no clarification on the proper way to measure a mag then how can you even check your own gear if the RO at the match will do it difefrently. If a mag will fit if you cock it or apply a lil bit of pressure than shouldnt the shooter get the benefit of the doubt? I don't see how being a thousandth over is going to give you an advantage over the other shooters in your class that may still be able to have more rounds than you anyway. I can understand if your production gun weighs to much you get bumped because those should be "out of the box" even though a G34 will weigh more than a G17. I can't wait to hear what John Amidon will have to say about this. I do know however that when Jessie Abbate was still a member of team Glock she used them in her limited set up, I wonder if she ever had this problem.