Glock Extractors. Anyone have one break?

November 22, 2019, 07:16 AM

I have been accessorizing a G-19; RMR, threaded barrel, disconnector, etc. and was wondering if anyone has had an extractor failure. There seems to be a lot of marketing info that you should replace the MIM extractor with billet or tool steel. Just trying to get an idea if this is really a common failure point.
The fact I probably have about 4k rounds (hardly any compared to many people here) through a couple of stock Glocks without a failure tells me they are not made of tissue paper and the extractor thing is probably just aftermarket marketing BS.

November 22, 2019, 07:54 AM

hberttmank

I've only got 12 Glocks, but some have been shot a lot. Never had a failure. I would not worry about an extractor failure myself. And from shooting matches for years I never saw one fail.

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November 22, 2019, 08:53 AM

DaBigBR

I have never seen one fail. I've probably got 20 or so Glocks. My agency has about 100 (and this is the third round of Glocks) and I am aware of no failures. Certainly there have not been any in the 8 years I have been with this department. Never any with the department before that as well.

Good MIM parts do just fine the overwhelmingly vast majority of the time. You are far, far, far more likely to see failures related to magazines and ammunition.

November 22, 2019, 09:54 AM

CaptainMike

Thanks guys, that was pretty much what I was thinking. Some extra $ I don't need to spend.

November 22, 2019, 02:59 PM

Sigwheeler

Our agency had a few G22's with chipped extractors years ago. They were Gen 3 models and the damage was caused by officers single loading the pistols by hand rather than loading from a magazine.

November 22, 2019, 06:52 PM

DirectDrive

quote:
Originally posted by CaptainMike:
I have been accessorizing a G-19; RMR, threaded barrel, disconnector, etc.

There is no "disconnector" in a Glock

quote:
....was wondering if anyone has had an extractor failure. There seems to be a lot of marketing info that you should replace the MIM extractor with billet or tool steel. Just trying to get an idea if this is really a common failure point.
The fact I probably have about 4k rounds (hardly any compared to many people here) through a couple of stock Glocks without a failure tells me they are not made of tissue paper and the extractor thing is probably just aftermarket marketing BS.

To worry about Glock extractor failure is a Fool's Errand.
If you open the breach and hand chamber a round, than let the slide fly, you can damage the extractor.
This goes for other pistol types, as well.
Don't do it. Chamber a round from the magazine like you are supposed to.

At 4000 rounds, in another 1000 rounds think about freshening your RSA.
That is all.

November 22, 2019, 07:01 PM

Cous2492

In dozens of Glocks, never had a failure of ANY kind. It's hard to argue with reliability like that. I would guess 10s of thousands of rounds.

Although I prefer Sig, I cannot say the same thing.

November 22, 2019, 07:01 PM

RogueJSK

Yep.

My 1989 Gen 2 Glock 19 started having intermittent FTE issues a few years ago, and I discovered the extractor was chipped. I got it used several years before that, with an unknown round count, and I personally had put about 4k more through it myself.

So after about 25+ years of use and what I can assume is many thousands of rounds, it did happen.

But it's an easy fix.

(And no, I hadn't been single loading rounds directly into the chamber and dropping the slide on them.)

November 22, 2019, 07:10 PM

Austin228

I had the locking block on my Glock 32 fail while I was at the range. I had a Glock 23 .40 S&W barrel in at the time and was firing 165 grain Winchester Ranger which is pretty high energy.

It was probably around 5k rounds and when it failed the gun was no longer able to fire so in a defense scenario that'd be bad.

Never had any of my SIG's have a failure like that.

November 22, 2019, 10:22 PM

wingspar

I must have close to 20k rounds thru my Glocks and the only time I had an extractor failure was when a tiny little piece of brass got stuck in the extractor. Most likely a freak incident and not really a failure of the extractor. Gun had about 10k rounds thru it at the time and a dozen or more posts in the Glock forum said I needed to replace the recoil spring. That’s the automatic response you will get over there. When I discovered the brass stuck in the extractor and posted back that I fixed it, no one ever replied back to me. I hope they were all too embarrassed to reply. When someone tells you that you need to replace this and that if you have X amount of rounds thru it, look the gun over carefully and do some research.

November 22, 2019, 10:56 PM

parabellum

I've never had a broken extractor for any Glock, but I have a full set of spare parts for 9x19mm gen 3 Glocks, except for slide, frame and barrel.

Come to think of it, I have factory threaded barrels for G19 and G17, so, everything except slide and frame, G26 and G34 barrels.

November 23, 2019, 12:18 AM

PorterN

Ive broken two extractors in my days. One on a Beretta 96 and one on a Glock 19. Had to order new ones for both. Not a spare part i kept around but also not a hard one to find in stock online

November 23, 2019, 01:09 AM

RNshooter

$13 and change. Order a spare and you will never need it.
I haven't.

Bruce

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November 23, 2019, 09:24 PM

chuck17

I had a chipped extractor on a G17 pointed out to me and replaced by a Glock armorer for free at a GSSF match. The gun was still functioning perfectly, and I had no reason to believe anything was wrong with it at the time.

November 26, 2019, 03:32 PM

Blaque Jacque Shellaque

Not me, but an LEO that competes at our club broke one on his duty 17 at around 20,000+ rounds of steel case Russian. That is the only one I have heard about. He wasn't concerned given his round count.

November 26, 2019, 03:46 PM

.38supersig

The only extractor that I had break was on a Kimber 1911. It was a MIM part. I called them and they sent me two replacement extractors for free.

November 26, 2019, 03:52 PM

RHINOWSO

Negative, but I have spares just in case.

quote:
Originally posted by Blaque Jacque Shellaque:
Not me, but an LEO that competes at our club broke one on his duty 17 at around 20,000+ rounds of steel case Russian. That is the only one I have heard about. He wasn't concerned given his round count.

I think he got his monies worth out of that extractor.

November 26, 2019, 06:36 PM

hrcjon

I don't have super high round count individual glocks just because I change them all the time in terms of what I regularly shoot. But I've more than 200K rounds down various glocks or multiple generations and never broken one. Of course I don't shoot steel case or even crappy ammo.
But the part costs $20, is easily available to purchase, trivial to install even on a rainy dark night. So I can't imagine what's to worry about on this part. But of course I do keep a spare or two surrounded by the rest of the necessary spare parts...

November 27, 2019, 02:20 AM

Nuclear

I've seen it happen to a fellow competitor at a bowling pin shoot on a new Glock. Doesn't mean it's common.

November 27, 2019, 08:55 AM

highroundcount

Yes. When I worked at the range in the 90's had a customer whose gun was acting up. Gen2 G22. Extractor chipped at the bottom.

My own personal Gen2 G22 broke one back in the early 2000s.

Might have broken one on a high mileage G19. Can't remember.

Been shooting Glocks a couple decades now. Seen some breakages: trigger return springs, locking blocks and pins, frames, frame rails, even had a new rental G30 at the range back when they were first pushed out that had the thin slide stop spring. It broke after a few rounds.

A lot of these breakages and the gun still ran, just not reliably.

You push out product at Glock volumes and there are bound to be a few failures.