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2ndsojourn · January 16, 2013, 02:04 PM

I'm not a new shooter, but a new poster. I did a quick search for this subject but didn't see anything, so I hope I'm not resurrecting an old subject.

I recently bought a G17c and went to the range with my girlfriend with a few guns and different ammo. We fired off a box of old military 9mm ammo with no problem. Going thru a box of UMC (yellow box), about every 5th ejected case stovepiped. After about the 3rd time, instead of taking the mag out and clearing it and reloading, I just knocked the partly ejected case out of the ejection port and continued. Then I tried a box of cheap Brown Wolf...Russian I think. About every 3rd round did the same thing.

Please....don't say we're limpwristing. Maybe she was, but I wasn't.

I guess there's the possibility that cheap ammo won't work in this gun, but it works in all my others. Or does my G17 need to be 'broken in'?

January 16, 2013, 02:04 PM	#1
2ndsojourn Senior Member Join Date: January 15, 2013 Location: South Jersey Posts: 1,416	Glock 17 issue I'm not a new shooter, but a new poster. I did a quick search for this subject but didn't see anything, so I hope I'm not resurrecting an old subject. I recently bought a G17c and went to the range with my girlfriend with a few guns and different ammo. We fired off a box of old military 9mm ammo with no problem. Going thru a box of UMC (yellow box), about every 5th ejected case stovepiped. After about the 3rd time, instead of taking the mag out and clearing it and reloading, I just knocked the partly ejected case out of the ejection port and continued. Then I tried a box of cheap Brown Wolf...Russian I think. About every 3rd round did the same thing. Please....don't say we're limpwristing. Maybe she was, but I wasn't. I guess there's the possibility that cheap ammo won't work in this gun, but it works in all my others. Or does my G17 need to be 'broken in'?