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Here is mine:

Absolute beauty!

ok Beiruty's might just fall in the "too pretty to shoot" category

PBR wrote:this is scary -- i have shot hundreds and thousands of swagged lead through several glocks have owned -- never noticed any issues with them but they were cleaned very well after every trip -- barrels look as good as first day bought them -- maybe have just gotten lucky on them so far, was told by many no problems with lead but just to clean them very good -- as said though I might have just gotten lucky so far as they werent no glock experts either

The issue, as I understand it, gets considerably worse in cartridges starting with .4 and ending with 0, although 9mm and .45 Glocks have kaboomed as well. The polygonal rifling can lead up in a way that narrows the bore, spiking pressures. When combined with Glocks' partially-supported chamber... bad things can happen.

I'd suspect the folks who get away with shooting lead are using a different alloy, either softer or harder, than is "normal," but as I don't have spare Glocks handy, I won't test or guess which direction the alloy runs.