Glock 17 Slide

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A buddy of mine has a G17 that upon pulling the slide back and slowly easing it forward by hand it seems to want to stop and need help forward about 1/8 inch from full travel. I have not tried it with mine, so I am not sure if it is a defect or not. It only occurs when chambering a round. Does anyone have any answers?
 
This is precisly the reason why you are not supposed to chamber a round this way. Not just Glocks but all semis with extractors, same reason why you shouldn't manually insert a round "in the pipe".

Coddyling the slide action can prevent the cartridge rim from correctly sliding under the extractor claw. This forces the extractor claw to push over the cartridge rim rather than slide under as designed, & can cause early demise/malfunction of your semi's extractor as well as tear up the brass on your cartridge.

You may also be asking for an accidental (negligent) discharge as well.

Either pull & fully release the slide or if locked open, depress the slide lock lever & let spring tension do it's work.
 
As CWL pointed out, it is not designed to be chambered that way.
If it behaved as you described without a round in it, that would indicate that the recoil spring, was ready for replacement.
 
Gee whiz. Slam that baby into battery. That is the proper manual of arms. Why are you pussyfootin? The best and most sure way to chamber a round is with the slide locked back, put the mag in firmly, tap it again, and pull slightly back on the slide and let go! Whack, just like returning after recoil. That's how the semi-auto is made to work.
 
I've tested my 1911 like this. I won't debate the intelligence of it but if you do it you've GOT to pay attention. On mine the round would sometimes get ahead of the extractor. This is when I pulled the slide back and fought like he!! to get the slide lock engaged. I NEVER let the extractor rest on the cartridge rim. And for goodness sake keep that finger off the trigger!

The logic for me was "if it can chamber a round like this it d$%# sure can chamber it at full speed." I also wanted to see what was causing some of the last-round-in-the-mag problems I was having. It was that dimple on the mag follower (why the he!! is that thing there anyway?) hanging on the rim. Switched to CMC/Wilson mags (got two CMC and one Wilson - plan to order more Wilson but like CMC too).

Like I said, we won't discuss the intelligence of doing this. Let's just say I don't do it anymore.

If you can get it to close with just a little help you aren't hanging the extractor on the case rim. More likely your barrel isn't wanting to raise to lockup. If this bothers you terribly lube up the barrel lockup area and see what happens. But if the gun live-fires okay I wouldn't worry about it. The reason it only does it when chambering could be that chambering puts an extra load on the recoil spring. I've seen a Taurus Millenium that was the same way. Of course that doesn't mean it's right.

JMHO. I'm not a gunsmith.
 
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