With every handgun that I ever bought brand new. The cycling of the slide has always felt some level of resistance and nowhere as smooth as it does when I break them down and clean & lube the hell out of it.
I have a new TX22 pistol that I purchased for my wife to practice and become familiar with full size pistol "feel" that suffers failure to feed, right out of the box. I have since disassembled mags, used my Dremel and Flitz paste with a wool polishing wheel on the top areas of the ramps. I cleaned the insides and removed sharp edges of mags, then used my 3in1 lock dry lube for repair and ability to feed the Federal truncated Spitfire rounds, plus all others so far. I recently also purchased a Taurus G3C pistol and discover that Taurus ships their pistols out Filthy inside, with plenty of flawed workmanship issues. The ergonomics of Taurus pistols are to die for, their quality control and customer service is Nil. I also had to replace the factory extractor with the Tandem Cross Eagle Talon unit to remedy lack of cycling and extraction issues for all ammo. My friend who I go to the range with has 2 TX22s, one the Competition model and they both work flawlessly. The TX22 keyholed rounds in the paper target initially, but fixed itself after about 100 rounds.I would pay more for a pistol that practiced quality control, as my Ruger, Colt, S & W, Daewoo.
Yes Sir, load it right it's up to the ammo company then. It's one of the best shooting pistol I've seen too. As of shooting little high that's a g thing.
Can i use a 20ga bore brush to clean inside of my Taurus TX22 magazines? And then spray some lucas oil Extreme duty CLP inside of them. Then use a cloth to wipe them.?
I bought a glock 44 a couple days ago and I love it. Somehow ended up getting two glocks that day because my backround check was delayed and when it was proceeded I went to pick it up and the computers were glitching and I had to wait. Thankfully it was only like 20 minutes tops but the guy saw me looking in the case and he’s like you wanna see anything? And I was eyeing a glock 17 I really liked(don’t hate me but my dream gun has always been a glock 17) but didn’t wanna get another delay and have to wait to pick it up. The guy said since I was picking up a gun and passed the 4473 they could just add another gun to the transfer if I wanted…really shouldn’t have told me that lol so I got the glock 44 i initially bought and was able to pickup a glock 17 gen 3 that has a CTC grip laser that pretty much meant after the discount I bought a laser sight that came with a Glock attached. I’m also really excited to get the Glock 44 on the range because my mom’s been wanting a gun for self defense. She really likes my ruger lcp2 .380 because of the size but when I shot it last week the recoil wasn’t horrible or anything but it’s soo small I can only shoot one shot before having to reposition the gun in my hand so I’m hoping the 44 will be easier to handle. And yes I know .22 isint ideal for self defense but how many people have you seen see a person pull out a .22 and say o it’s okay that won’t hurt me lol
I guess for the price point compared to other .22 semi's people don' t think they should have to mess with a finicky magazine . I for one must not be that guy . After watching reviews I still bought the glock .. just 120 rnds down range with various ammo. 2 stove pipes( sounded like under powered ammo). But I did like you mentioned as well as the user manuals mentioned!! Clean the gun before use..
I have tried every fix on youtube and still had problems with certain types of ammo. He is correct on hollow points being most problematic although round nose wasnt perfect either. I started out by polishing the ramp. Still problems. Then lightly chamfered the edge of the chamber all the way around and polished the edge. Still had problems. I bought special brushes to clean the mags. This helped a lot but still some problems. I noticed that malfunctions did exactly what G&P said with the round hitting the front of the mag and the slide hitting it and bending it while putting a notch in the lead. This happened mostly in the first 3 rounds. I studied the magazines and the rounds in the mag and how they were positioned, especially at the top 3 rounds. The rims on the rim fires would stick in the top edge of the little slots at the top of the mags. I took a dremel small metal cutting tip, loaded it in the dremel extension tip without the extension cable being in the actual dremel. I then inserted it into the top inside slots on both sides, and spun it by hand to take that edge off to taper it for the round case lip. I cleaned it with the brushes and put them back together. I have 5 modified and 5 not. The nots would still malfunction every now and then. The modified ones NEVER malfunctioned and I shot them as fast as I could pull the trigger with every kind of ammo I had. If it was going to malfunction it was usually when shooting fast. Maybe one of you can tell me what is the purpose of those slots? Another thought I had was to put a piece of tape on the inside over the slots and fill the slots from the outside with plastic epoxy. Until the chamfer malfunctions Im going to stick with that for now. The slots might be there to help with the double stacking and feeding. Sorry for the longwinded post.
The fix for me after cleaning with other lubes several times seemed to finally be ballastol and rinsing with warm water since the mag is almost entirely polymer. Leave the spring dry and assemble the mag dry without any lubricants and it began working for me. Your mileage may vary but it got me up and running.
That is ugly and the reason I do not use lead bullets. 45 years ago I had no choice but to shoot lead bullets for training and qualifications in my .38. I had to use a Lee Lead remover every day to get the lead out of the barrel.
Luckily mine are relatively smooth. Everything is new right now and I have the mags fully loaded and just sitting for a bit. Next is some Teflon lube after watching your video.
Seen too many videos of people complaining about this gun and not offering any solutions. After watching a lot of videos by common sense folks like yourself, on the G44, there is a common solution similar to exactly what you are saying. Clean it up before using, pay attention to how the mags are loaded and it is very reliable. I do get some issues with Winchester wildcat ammo but every semi 22 I own has the same trouble with that ammo. I typically shoot the cheapest bulk ammo i can find on sale and with the Winchester exception my G44 runs flawlessly and it is one of my fav gun to take to the range. My G44 is very reliable.
I milled relief cuts into the magazines and have never had a first-round feed problem since. The cuts allow the rounds to kick out more at the rear of the rounds, which keeps upward pressure on the front of the round. Why Glock failed to include relief cuts on these mags is a mystery to me, every other manufacturer does it with their .22LR mags, just look at the TX22. 16 round mags, it CAN be done.
One key is, when loading the mag, after you've filled the mag, pull down the spring on the mag, then give the mag a little shake with the bullet noses pointing up. This allows the rims to settle side to side in an offset figure. Because the 22 LR is a rimmed cartridge, they need to set staggered rim to rim for proper feeding. Once you do this, look at the cartridges in the mag and you'll see what I mean. Give them a slap to set the cartridges back like normal, and you're good to go. Once I did this, any issues I had went away. And I've shot every kind of ammo you can through mine.
Any lubricant in a magazine always a bad road to go down..lubricants prevent shell casing from completing full gas sealing in chamber at moment of ignition. Results ingas blowback and throat damage to gun. Lubricants also attract dirt and grit which acts like a grinding paste in a gun actuon.Always run mags clean and dry, never introduce any lubricant into gun chamber.🤠🤠
A wet lubricant is normally a bad idea as you say. However, a dry lubricant is a different story. (I have since started using a slick car polish that is dry when applied.)
First time owner, but made the decision to purchase based off seeing that my family was able to handle it comfortably, with no issues, and also finding it to be a LOT of fun to shoot. What this video (and several others) have cemented in my mind however is the importance of keeping it clean---Would I be wrong in saying that 22lr should be cleaned more often vs other round types?
As a first-time gun buyer, this video made me purchase a Glock 44. I believe this will train my sensitivity when it comes to caring for any firearm. It requires attention and I like that. Take care of the gun and it take cares of you. Thank you for leading me to make a more informed decision on my purchase. Any tips on accurately cleaning the firearm, there plenty of videos on how to disassemble but I love your explanations and would love tips.
Okay so now I'm at the end of the video 10:00 let's recap, clean the gun. Inspect the gun. Stacked the mag correctly Shoot a lot of rounds through the gun. Reliable gun. This should be the number one Glock 44 video
I bought mine the week it was released. It ran very rough for the first 1000 rounds. Literally 3-4 failures every magazine. I tried cleaning it before use to no avail. I noticed that the problem was particularly bad when I used any cartridge under 40 grains. Then all of a sudden, the failures stopped. I have close to 6000 rounds thru it now with 100% success. Excluding the first 1000.
Good luck getting any MagSlick. It can't even be shipped by USPS. (maybe UPS) And the only source I found that carried it was Brownells, and they were out of stock.
I'm in total agreement with you. I'm also amazed at how many reviewers proclaim that they've not cleaned their guns for "X" number of rounds. That's a tacit admission of their ignorance, laziness or just plain stupidity. Having had many guns which suffered from "bad" reviews which have worked as untended I have become suspicious of the motives of some reviewers. Glock in particular recommends cleaning every brand new gun before using it and after a certain number of rounds have been fired. Many people either don't or can't read the manual. Same goes for the loading procedure for the magazines. Your method seems to work very well, but Glock's recommended procedure also works very well. Great insight!
I have been using Thunderbolt as well. I noticed that same issue you describe the first time I was loading the mags. Another solution that I found to this problem was to only pull back on the magazine tabs enough to allow the bullet to slide in. I noticed that if you pull the tabs all the way down and load then the bullets don't seat quite right. I had almost no issues with the Thunderbolt rds. I cleaned out the barrel but left all of the factory lube as recommended in the manual.
I hold my mags at a rearward angle when loading and never have the nosedive problem. I also shot a whole box of Winchester super x 40 grain 1280 fps 222 rounds and only had 1 malfunction and it was just an under charged round.
Read pages 12 and 26 in the Glock Owners Manual. It states clean and lubricate before firing the first round. And clean after every 100 rounds there after. .22lr leaves a lot of fouling material that will affect reliable operation. Thank you for calling out all the nitwits who stupidly admit to just taking it out of the box and firing for many hundred rounds before finally looking at the insides. All the while blaming the .22 ammo, the pistol, the moon, stale beer👎😢 There ARE a lot of stupid people on tube that spread false information and poor judgement. Thank you for your clear headed presentation ⚖️🗽☮️🇺🇲👍
