This weekend I was CRO on the
Five to Glock (3 X 10 rounds) stage of the Long Island Classic GSSF Match.
Saturday, I ran a young Federal agent through with an issue Model 22 and Speer 165-grain Gold Dot HPs. On one string he experienced two (2) failures to fire, expertly performed a
T-R-B, and finished the course of fire after a necessitated reload.
When the ejected rounds were retrieved, each displayed a lightly-dimpled primer with an off-center strike. This was witnessed by a dozen GSSF shooters.
It was not ascertained why the gentleman's Glock attempted to fire out of battery (dirty chamber, burr in chamber, etc.) as he declined to present his weapon and the unfired rounds to the attending armorer, citing his need to return the pistol to his Quantico section first thing Monday, apparently an agency directive. (I subsequently learned from a source in Virginia that all firearms work has to be performed at Quantico or there are significant repercussions if they let an outside armorer or 'smith touch the gun!)
Sunday on the same stage, another Federal agent firing a personally-owned Model 21 experienced another FTF which was "solved" by a
T-R-B. This one displayed a v-e-r-y light and almost perfectly centered "dimple" in the (relatively) new Winchester 185-grain "conical" target load. The shooter himself called it an "out-of-battery" strike.
It's interesting, because certain of the Kool Aid Crew and one wack job who's been flagged from almost as many forums as have I, insist that it is impossible for any "post-upgrade" Glock to fire while out-of-battery.
When it occurred with me 'n' my (pre-upgrade) Model 21 back in '92 (
herein documented), it was assumed, because Glock told us so, that such an event was no longer possible with the replacement of those
six parts. Two different Glocks, two different models, both of recent vintage… a total of three (3) dimpled primers!
O, well…
