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Factory ammo blew up my rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="mrbb" data-source="post: 2656441" data-attributes="member: 11837"><p>Glock is very good at making things right if ever a need, back in the early 90's I was a Glock dealer, and the shop bought out a custom ammo company, so, we took in a few hundred thousands rounds of ammo, they had, they also had cardboard boxes of mixed ammo, about 10,000 round, of a few different calibers!, with NO info on them, we tore a bunch of them apart and check things and every one we checked was OK</p><p> so, rather than sell unknown ammo to customers</p><p> we used it as practice ammo for us in the store to burn up on an indoor range we had(knowing the risks)</p><p>we ended up shooting about 5,00 round of it thru one glock 17 I had,, and then we hit some double charged rounds(didn;t know at the time, we later learned that all the loose ammo in them cardboard boxes were considered by maker defective> yet all the samples we took apart were spot on?, and NO boxes were marked defective, or we would have just had it torn down, ) , after the first one went off, it sound MUCH louder than normal the second one seemed OK, so, we fired a third one</p><p> then the mag fell out of the gun, and a chunk of the frame came off with the third shot!</p><p> Contacted our Glock rep, and he simply said, send us the gun we never seen one come apart like ours did,(in pic's we scent them(mach when 35 mm film was used and real pictures sent)</p><p> a few days after they got the gun, they said they were fixing free of charge , so I ended up getting a new frame with the old serial number on it</p><p> its now a first gen serial # on a second Gen Glock, I still have it, and its seen a few hundred thousand rounds since! as it spent a bunch of time as a range gun, never had another one come apart, and was 10% BAD ammo, but since Ammo maker was gone, and we shot ammo NOT knowing the quality, was more or less our fault, but I give a hats off to Glock for fixing for free for us!</p><p></p><p> NOW< a SECOND note, we also had a Ruger security six, in .357, shooting, .38 special ammo! , 6 inch revolver,(shooting this same ammo from the boxes, before we again knew things, both guns had failures the same day before we had time to learn of the ammo being defective, )</p><p> end up taking two rounds of under charged ammo, that stuck the first round in the bore and then a second behind it, NO damage was done to that gun,</p><p>we had gun sent out to Ruger, and they had it tested for any fractures or cracks, and determined it was FINE, I will also give that model 5 stars for being overly built, HAHA! and taking the double stuff!</p><p></p><p> BUT again, either way it was 100% our fault on them two examples! and TWO stand up company's to make sure things were safe again for use!</p><p>I'm sure it helped were were authorized dealers for there brand, but, they went above and beyond what other company's have done for me in the past!(and sorry for getting some what off topic) to OP )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrbb, post: 2656441, member: 11837"] Glock is very good at making things right if ever a need, back in the early 90's I was a Glock dealer, and the shop bought out a custom ammo company, so, we took in a few hundred thousands rounds of ammo, they had, they also had cardboard boxes of mixed ammo, about 10,000 round, of a few different calibers!, with NO info on them, we tore a bunch of them apart and check things and every one we checked was OK so, rather than sell unknown ammo to customers we used it as practice ammo for us in the store to burn up on an indoor range we had(knowing the risks) we ended up shooting about 5,00 round of it thru one glock 17 I had,, and then we hit some double charged rounds(didn;t know at the time, we later learned that all the loose ammo in them cardboard boxes were considered by maker defective> yet all the samples we took apart were spot on?, and NO boxes were marked defective, or we would have just had it torn down, ) , after the first one went off, it sound MUCH louder than normal the second one seemed OK, so, we fired a third one then the mag fell out of the gun, and a chunk of the frame came off with the third shot! Contacted our Glock rep, and he simply said, send us the gun we never seen one come apart like ours did,(in pic's we scent them(mach when 35 mm film was used and real pictures sent) a few days after they got the gun, they said they were fixing free of charge , so I ended up getting a new frame with the old serial number on it its now a first gen serial # on a second Gen Glock, I still have it, and its seen a few hundred thousand rounds since! as it spent a bunch of time as a range gun, never had another one come apart, and was 10% BAD ammo, but since Ammo maker was gone, and we shot ammo NOT knowing the quality, was more or less our fault, but I give a hats off to Glock for fixing for free for us! NOW< a SECOND note, we also had a Ruger security six, in .357, shooting, .38 special ammo! , 6 inch revolver,(shooting this same ammo from the boxes, before we again knew things, both guns had failures the same day before we had time to learn of the ammo being defective, ) end up taking two rounds of under charged ammo, that stuck the first round in the bore and then a second behind it, NO damage was done to that gun, we had gun sent out to Ruger, and they had it tested for any fractures or cracks, and determined it was FINE, I will also give that model 5 stars for being overly built, HAHA! and taking the double stuff! BUT again, either way it was 100% our fault on them two examples! and TWO stand up company's to make sure things were safe again for use! I'm sure it helped were were authorized dealers for there brand, but, they went above and beyond what other company's have done for me in the past!(and sorry for getting some what off topic) to OP ) [/QUOTE]
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