How familiar are you with working on your pistol? Could you have put your recoil spring in the wrong orientation? That could cause the issue you describe...

This is sort of common with G30's. The magazines are pretty tight, in order for the slide to go rearward with an inserted magazine, the stack of rounds in the magazine must move down as the slide goes rearward.

Try leaving your magazines fully loaded for a while, even better take it to the range and shoot with it to give those magazine springs a workout.

I've found that sometimes the stack of rounds won't move down any farther when you get to capacity, the stack won't even move down 1mm. I don't know if it's caused by a weird tilt to the follower or a coil of the spring getting stuck on the lip of the inner floorplate. What I find fixes it is this: after I load 5 rounds I take the magazine in one hand and put downward tension on the top round with my thumb, then smack the magazine floorplate-first into the palm of my other hand pretty firmly. If I did it right, the stack of rounds should've moved down in the magazine then sprung back to the top. Then every one of two more rounds I do the same thing, and once the magazine is at full capacity I do it again and make sure the stack of rounds can move down just a little bit at full capacity.

There's a rail on the bottom of the slide which acts to push the top round in the magazine out of the magazine and up the feed ramp of the barrel. That rail has a ramp on it, and as the slide moves rearward that ramp pushes the top round in the magazine down even further. If the top round won't move down, the slide won't move rearward.

Can you tell us what brand and weight the ammo is you are using ?





(another possible mag/feed/drag/slide concern ?)

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Originally Posted by voyager4520

This is sort of common with G30's. The magazines are pretty tight, in order for the slide to go rearward with an inserted magazine, the stack of rounds in the magazine must move down as the slide goes rearward.

Try leaving your magazines fully loaded for a while, even better take it to the range and shoot with it to give those magazine springs a workout.

I've found that sometimes the stack of rounds won't move down any farther when you get to capacity, the stack won't even move down 1mm. I don't know if it's caused by a weird tilt to the follower or a coil of the spring getting stuck on the lip of the inner floorplate. What I find fixes it is this: after I load 5 rounds I take the magazine in one hand and put downward tension on the top round with my thumb, then smack the magazine floorplate-first into the palm of my other hand pretty firmly. If I did it right, the stack of rounds should've moved down in the magazine then sprung back to the top. Then every one of two more rounds I do the same thing, and once the magazine is at full capacity I do it again and make sure the stack of rounds can move down just a little bit at full capacity.

Maybe I am lucky, but I have put over 500 rounds of reloads, UMC, WWB Hornady CD, Speer Gold Dot LE through my G30 and haven't had any feed issue or others of any kind. I will keep a ear to the ground, but mine is working flawlessly.
Brio, I hope you get it worked out. I love mine.