You didn't mention the generation of the G26.

In the gen 4 G17s (and 19s) we use in the basic classes using 115 grain bullets I have found no published powder load that would function the gun reliably. In order to get them to run reliably I have to throw the published load data out the window.

As it turned out, in the case of plated bullets, the 'balance point' where the pistol would just cycle reliably and the bullets breaking up on the way to the target was just so thin as to not be something either the instructors or myself were comfortable with.

I could get back to "safe" with 124 grain bullets, but with 147 grain bullets there was an actual safety margin that allowed for (safe) mass production and made the pistols run like tactical tupperware sewing machines.


So . . . take that for what it is worth. If I have loaded 100 rounds of 9mm I have loaded a couple of hundred thousand.

Oh! This problem does not exist with the gen3 or earlier guns. They eat the 115 grain bullets like candy loaded to (slightly) less than max loads.