glock recoil spring question...

[aggie97]

I shot a Steel Challenge competition this weekend and was experiencing an interesting issue.

Gun: Gen 4 G34 with a Lone Wolf threaded match barrel and their 2 port thread on compensator. Gun is otherwise stock except for fiber optic front sight and the $.25 trigger work.

The issue I was having is that the brass weren't being thrown very far and most were going forward or just down my right wrist. Some of the other shooters were concerned I had really soft ammo and might not have been making power factor. Gun extracted every shot, but for some reason it wasn't tossing brass. I was using factory Blazer Brass 9mm.

One of the other shooters loaned me a 12# recoil spring and the brass shot out further, but the slide did not always make it back to battery. They mentioned trying a 14# spring instead.

My question is if I go with a lighter spring, will I see reliability issues or do I just need to up the pressure on some hand loads?

Advice?

[War Machine]

Best to make a post on glocktalk. I would blame it on the ammo, with as fast as ammo is being made there seems to be others with a lot of ammo issues

[War Machine]

If you go with different ammo and you're still having this issue call Glock and they'll send you a new extractor
I wouldn't mess with the recoil spring

[pr1042]

Do you have the 30274 ejector and does your extractor have a dip in it?

[aggie97]

Best to make a post on glocktalk. I would blame it on the ammo, with as fast as ammo is being made there seems to be others with a lot of ammo issues

I've had this Blazer on the shelf for a while. I think the manufacture date was 5/2012 IIRC.

It does have the 30274 ejector which is different than my Gen 3 G19. As for the dip? I think so but would need a better description of which side of it I should be looking at.

[slowyellow]

I'd say to leave the spring alone for now. See if you can chrono the rounds, if they are where they need to be and the gun is running, leave it alone. Who cares where the brass goes?