So first, the arty shot to show I've got class:
yea, that's not so good but what do you want, it's a glock sitting on some empties swept up in a pile.
Just hit the 19k rounds today, and over the history I've:
- 10k-ish replaced mag springs with Wolff +10% and polished mag body internals
- 11,507 new recoil spring
- 15k-ish cleaned mags and polished mag body internals
- 15,500 new trigger spring, new firing pin spring, new firing pin cups, put OEM slide stop back (after market one was toast)
- 17k-ish new extractor spring
I'll start keeping better notes on when I replace parts, haven't been putting that in the spreadsheet just writing the approx round count on the bag that holds the old parts.
With 95% of the ammo being steel case Russian stuff, I've found that the insides of the mags get roughed up a lot and rounds start to bind after a while. Usually the recoil of the gun keeps them knocked loose and feeding but with the original springs getting so weak after 10k+ it was causing issues. Now when it feel them binding I just clean the mags, about every 5k rounds. The 10 mags I use in the gun all the time actually have more rounds through them than the pistol itself because they get used in other glocks and my Ruger carbine, however the other guns and the carbine don't have but a few thousand through them in total.
I had some FETs after the first batch of spring replacements, but I had forgotten to order the extractor spring. Once that one was replaced the FTEs were reduced to just 2, and both were with the same batch of aluminum case ammo. No drama in the last 1500 so I'm calling it fixed.
Wear doesn't look all that bad, don't see any cracks or anything anywhere. Just needs a cleaning more than anything.
yea, that's not so good but what do you want, it's a glock sitting on some empties swept up in a pile.
Just hit the 19k rounds today, and over the history I've:
- 10k-ish replaced mag springs with Wolff +10% and polished mag body internals
- 11,507 new recoil spring
- 15k-ish cleaned mags and polished mag body internals
- 15,500 new trigger spring, new firing pin spring, new firing pin cups, put OEM slide stop back (after market one was toast)
- 17k-ish new extractor spring
I'll start keeping better notes on when I replace parts, haven't been putting that in the spreadsheet just writing the approx round count on the bag that holds the old parts.
With 95% of the ammo being steel case Russian stuff, I've found that the insides of the mags get roughed up a lot and rounds start to bind after a while. Usually the recoil of the gun keeps them knocked loose and feeding but with the original springs getting so weak after 10k+ it was causing issues. Now when it feel them binding I just clean the mags, about every 5k rounds. The 10 mags I use in the gun all the time actually have more rounds through them than the pistol itself because they get used in other glocks and my Ruger carbine, however the other guns and the carbine don't have but a few thousand through them in total.
I had some FETs after the first batch of spring replacements, but I had forgotten to order the extractor spring. Once that one was replaced the FTEs were reduced to just 2, and both were with the same batch of aluminum case ammo. No drama in the last 1500 so I'm calling it fixed.
Wear doesn't look all that bad, don't see any cracks or anything anywhere. Just needs a cleaning more than anything.