A question for the Glockophiles

[BAC]

Indeed. They are nice and deep and even as well (in the sample shown). The gun (FP at least), seems fine. As to the slide locking open? I haave no clue. Did you accidently hit the mag release? Did the round fire before this happened? Was there a partial feed? I've had a RARE FTF, but never had the slide lock. Thats just weird.
FQ13

I may have pressed the mag release by accident.  I'd like to move it to the other side, being a lefty and all.  The round before fired and it was fine afterward.  Not going to freak out about it.

[Pathfinder]

Yes, it is.
BAC, you are seeing normal Glock firing pin marks.
Look at the firing pin hole - it and the firing pin are NOT round, they are rectangular.

Comparing the photos that BAC and Alf provided, it appears that BAC's have more "smearing" of the primer hit, where the hit is not uniform. Alf's single example shows a very uniform hit. In BAC's pictures, one end of the hit appears to pull the primer metal.

Does that fall within the range of "normal" for a Glock?

[Solus]

Looking at the back of the magazine, there is a protrusion of the follower at the left front of the magazine.  It is what operates the Slide Stop Lever when the magazine is empty.

It is very close to the feed ramp, so it does not seem that a round being extracted would be able to yaw enough to operate it. I guess a round being ejected might somehow bounce that way, but that doesn't see likely at all.

It also does not appear that the next round rising in the magazine could get so misaligned that it could operate the lever.

I guess some kind of "inertial recoil" might have cause it, but it would likely be occurring more often if that was the case.

My guess would be that one of your thumbs put pressure on the lever as the gun was recoiling and raised the lever.

[Solus]

Comparing the photos that BAC and Alf provided, it appears that BAC's have more "smearing" of the primer hit, where the hit is not uniform. Alf's single example shows a very uniform hit. In BAC's pictures, one end of the hit appears to pull the primer metal.

Does that fall within the range of "normal" for a Glock?

It is normal.  The striker is a rectangle but it has a high point in the center.

[alfsauve]

No expert, but Brian's looking normal to me.  Then I'mNOT an expert.   He's firing  higher pressure, factory .40S&W ammo, while mine was a 9mm that's  lower pressure than .40 and then dlownloaded slightly from that.   One would expect deeper indentations from the higher pressure round.

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[ratcatcher55]

A nice explaination of primer wipe.

http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2011/01/dear-lawdog.html

[billt]

All 6 of my Glocks give primer strikes that look just like that. It is perfectly normal for a Glock pistol, regardless of caliber or model.  Bill T.

[BAC]

All 6 of my Glocks give primer strikes that look just like that. It is perfectly normal for a Glock pistol, regardless of caliber or model.  Bill T.

6 Glocks?  1 for each day of the week, eh?   

[CJS3]

My brother's Taurus PT111 has the same type of primer strikes.

[1911 Junkie]

6 Glocks?  1 for each day of the week, eh?   

Yes, because glocks are not appropriate for Sunday or church carry.