I know that many Glock owners feel that routine cleaning is not necessary. I know that I'm not as anal about cleaning my Glocks as I am about some of my other guns, but I won't go past 2 or 3 range sessions without cleaning.
But this is not about routine cleaning, but about cleaning the striker mechanism. Recently my Model 34 had begun to deliver light hits to the primer on a random basis not explainable by hard primers or particular lots of ammo. So I went to my references and learned to strip down the slide. It's pretty easy(glockmeister.com is one ref.). The amount of dirt and carbon in the striker channel and on the extractor was amazing, and more suprizing was the quantity of brass filings mixed in with the carbon. I'm guessing that the extractor does this and some of the brass manages to get into the works. I think that in the future to avoid this problem I'm going to clean this area about every thousand rounds as a preventative.
Thought I'd pass this on to other Glock owners who might have similar problems.
But this is not about routine cleaning, but about cleaning the striker mechanism. Recently my Model 34 had begun to deliver light hits to the primer on a random basis not explainable by hard primers or particular lots of ammo. So I went to my references and learned to strip down the slide. It's pretty easy(glockmeister.com is one ref.). The amount of dirt and carbon in the striker channel and on the extractor was amazing, and more suprizing was the quantity of brass filings mixed in with the carbon. I'm guessing that the extractor does this and some of the brass manages to get into the works. I think that in the future to avoid this problem I'm going to clean this area about every thousand rounds as a preventative.
Thought I'd pass this on to other Glock owners who might have similar problems.
I didn't think anyone liked cleaning their guns that much!