Why do I get a failure to feed on almost every subsequent round when shooting my Glock 22?
‘Jack Knife’ ain’t too far off! What you need to discover is the reason, ‘Why’ your magazine spring is too strong. I suspect the main culprit is a standard weight recoil spring which is overpowering the crappy range ammo that you’re using. The slide is ever so slightly, ‘short stroking’ as well as moving too slow; the magazine spring is putting the round up too fast in relationship to the slide speed; and, voila, the bullet gets jammed into the top of the barrel before the rim of the cartridge case is able to slip underneath the extractor claw. What you’re complaining about has NEVER happened to me with either Federal American Eagle, or CCI Speer Blazer Aluminium. In order to shoot significantly underpowered ammo you’re going to need to contact Wolff Gunsprings and purchase two items: (Which will, probably, turn out to be two of the best things you’ve ever added to your Glock.) First you need to get a Wolff non-captured NP3 coated, steel guide rod; and, second, you need to buy a G-22 r