Reloading for glock

[hillbilli]

I've had people tell me they run reloads or lead bullets out of stock glock barrels, but I've also read a fair about hazards associated with it, so when i got my .40 i spent 99$ on a lone wolf aftermarket barrel, and thats what all my reloads and lead bullets are shot out of.. seen a number of pictures of case failure/ ruptured casings, never seen it happen firsthand. I do think from looking at the older generation glock barrels compared to newer ones that the newer chambers are more supported than the originals..

[sirmissalot]

What I am hearing is, if you want to run a full power round, only reload it once or twice.  If your firing reduced loads, you can reload cases more than that.  Did the guy you talked to say anything about how many times that case had been reloaded and to what pressures, that affects case life more  than what handgun its fired out of.

For self defense, I use new brass resized once and loaded.  Reusing brass over and over and then loading it up for self defense just seems like a bad idea.

No he didn't know how many times it had been loaded, but he told me to never reload for glock because that can happen on the first reload. It all made sense, just the first I had heard of it. He was pretty adamant about not reloading fired brass for glock at all, so that's what got me thinking. 

[jaymark6655]

I would just take that advice with a grain of salt is all I was trying to point out.  For all we know those first reload kabooms could have been guys firing a brand new batch of ammo, picking up the empty casings, they grab one that someone left on the ground that already had five reloads or more or it could have been someone pushing the cartridge to far and it would have blown up any gun.  It could have just been a problem with the first gen glocks.  Doesn't seem like anyone knows for sure and most of the people that say not to reload reference that someone who know someone had one blow up on like the very first round and the Glock offical policy says not to reload.  Doesn't matter that almost any gun manufacture voids their warranty if you fire reloads.

Like someone else pointed out, there are tons out there reloading for Glocks both stock and aftermarket barrels.  If the problem was the gun there would be more than one or two stories that just get repeated.

[sirmissalot]

Yup I agree completely Jay. I'll just keep an eye on the brass as usual, paying special attention to the semi auto stuff towards the bases. Thanks everyone. Now if I can just find a G29 gen 4 in OD green. I hear they are making a run of a different brown green but its gonna be several months out.