has anyone had any experience loading for a glock.
the company sure leans againest it. have also read other places that don,t give it much subject matter.

sorry, i hit the button twice. second post has e-mail notifi.

I'm no expert but I had a glock 21 and asked the same questions. Two things came out.
1. The barrel is of a different design in grove pattern(actually not groved, I forget what they call it) and it can accumulate lead quickley and raise pressures fast.
2. something about the type of breech lock. It is not fully supported and may contribute to kabooms

So in total be carefull of using lead bullets,
keep it clean and make quality copper jacketed ammo with a good tapper crimp( i would not seat the bullet and crimp at the same time)

I hope that something I just said may help.

Matt

P.s. I sold it because I did not like the trigger.

As I recall, the Glock barrel does not support the web (back) of the case, at least for 9 mm barrels. I don�t know if the same is true for the 10 mm. The result of the unsupported web is that the case will bulge after firing, so brass that is reused several times will actually become weak and prone to failure. There have been several documented cases of this happening. When the brass fails the gun explodes. Take a look on the web for more information. Because of this I personally would not want to reload for a Glock. That being said I have not reloaded for pistol ammunition at all.

Ben

I have reloaded for my Glock 17 for years & have shot both jacketed & hard cast lead. I would stick to jacketed stuff for total reliability. I load 10mm for a Colt & S&W, if you keep to dafe & sane preassures, you should have no problems. A cop friend of mine has shot thousands of reloads thru his Glock 21 w/ no problems. No company supports reloading for their firearms, there are just too many things that can go wrong.

The best source of information on handloading has been a poster named "McNett" at "The 10 Ring" forum in GLOCKTALK:
http://glocktalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=38

I don't know near what he does, but I have experimented with a Glock 20 and the stock barrel as well as with a BarSto after market barrel.

I have worked up overloads as far as I could go until I got a full case, fully compressed powder, or case bulge at the percentage over the powder manufacturer's listed max as the % overload:

180 gr AA#9 stock barrel 11%
180 gr LONGSHOT stock 3% and BarSto barrels 39%
180 gr H110 stock barrel [no Hodgdon data]
180 gr 800x stock 26% and BarSto barrels 72%
180 gr N105 stock barrel [no VV data]
200 gr 800X BarSto barrel 82%
200 gr Blue Dot BarSto barrel 49%
200 gr STEEL BarSto barrel [no Alliant data]

I have also started a work up with Power Pistol, the BarSto barrel and 200 gr bullets, but I have not reached the limit yet 11%.

As you may infer, the superior case support of a KKM or BarSto or Jarvis after market barrel allows a much greater load before feed ramp case bulge.

thanks for all your help.....gfg

Hmm Hi there Gfg, there are no, I say no difference in reloading for a Glock then any other handgun.

A Glock 20 what is that a .40 S&W, well then there are a few things to consider, they aply to all Glock reloading.

1. No lead as it will build up in hte polygon barrel. Sure with hardcast bullets and a lot of cleaning it probably can be done but to what purpose.
2. Make sure that there can be no bullet set back, that might cause execessive pressures not far from a KB. To make sure of that use a Lee Factory Crimp Die, an added bonus is that you will never have insufficiently resized rounds.

3. Do not use maxloads.

If one remembers these little things and reload according to normal standars then it�s like reloading for any other handgun.
Chris

thanks for all your help..gfg