glock42 .380 question

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A friend has a glock 42 .380 and he said he was having a lot of trouble with it cycling correctly. I said what type of ammo he said it was some type of steel cased and I told him that was possibly the problem, but I'd take it home and give it a good thorough cleaning and see if I could find anything that looked amiss. Well I brought it home tore it down completely cleaned the fool out of it and didn't see anything really wrong well other then it hadn't been cleaned really good. So I'm gonna load it up with what I know is good ammo a few different brands and see if it has any trouble with any of them. I figure possibly it was steel or aluminum cased or low recoil and that was probably all it was. Your thoughts on his problem
 
Ive owned one, never used steel cased ammo. Just aluminum and brass with no cycling problems. I remember one time with a Glock 26 I had would not cycle the Federal burgundy/black box aluminum 115g. It was just underpowered ammo. But would cycle fine with other ammo.
 
The first generation of mags had some issues as I recall. But that was fixed fairly shortly after the G42 was released. If the mags aren't the original style, then I'd suspect issue is ammo or limp wristing.
 
drypowder said:
The first generation of mags had some issues as I recall. But that was fixed fairly shortly after the G42 was released. If the mags aren't the original style, then I'd suspect issue is ammo or limp wristing.
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I'm going to say ammo. It's extremely hard to limp wrist the g42.
 
what I figured it was from the start was ammo not person or gun but I'll go run some ammo through it to see hell might even have gwen shoot it if she has problems I know its ammo
 
I traded my wife’s 43 for a 42 and it turned out to be an early production gun. It wouldn’t run brass, steel, or aluminum ammo. We ended up sending it back to the factory and runs everything now. I think they changed a couple parts in the gun and sent new mags as well. Good luck.
 
Make sure you are running the "03" mags and the newest -1/-2 slide stop, mine had some issues with flat tipped ammo such as WWB 95gr and Buffalo Bore 100gr stuff got a couple of "03" magazines and problems stopped.
 
I initially had that problem. I kept it in the safe with the slide locked to the rear for a week and have not had a malfunction since.
 
Steel case ammo doesn't rebound like brass ammo. It's probably hanging up in the chamber.
 
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