Chinese ammo???

[Mudfoot]

 

[mackmobile43]

Someone is very lucky?

 

[Wiskey Delta-40]

HOLY CRAP !!

But why do I not see any powder residue

 

[GLR]

damn

 

[Eastside]

A rd cooked off or what?

 

[pro151]

Where did the images come from?

 

[RatsoW8]

A rd cooked off or what?

I'd say someone loaded a dbl charge and/or the brass failed.

 

[mackmobile43]

I'd say someone loaded a dbl charge and/or the brass failed.

Cylinder should contain cartridge failure and not dbl charging or perhaps the wrong class of propellant.

 

[Robb]

Notice that three shell casings blew up - and on either side of the cylinder that was fired - and simultaneously?
Those shells must have been sabotaged with a high explosive; perhaps 'petn' that is used in detonating caps.
Hmmm . . .

 

[Eastside]

I'd say someone loaded a dbl charge and/or the brass failed.

Yeah....thats prolly it.
I am a member of a sportsman's club.....when I would go out to the range I used to buy reloads off a guy just for blastin ammo...I got a couple squib rounds and thought....mebbe the next one might have too much powder.....I quit using them.....still have about 300rds of 40 s&w reloads.

btw...I have a spam can of M1 Garand ammo...its in the enbloc clips in bandoleers that I would trade to someone local for 300ft of new rg-213.

 

[RatsoW8]

Notice that three shell casings blew up - and on either side of the cylinder that was fired - and simultaneously?
Those shells must have been sabotaged with a high explosive; perhaps 'petn' that is used in detonating caps.
Hmmm . . .

Cylinder should contain cartridge failure and not dbl charging or perhaps the wrong class of propellant.

Yea...I was looking at the pics on my iPhone and didn't see the detail. Very bizarre. I've never seen rounds cook off like that. I have seen that happen with the old cap and ball pistol I had in high school but the other cylinder just fire out the sides and don't blow up.

The only way I can see this happening is if the revolver got very hot somehow either accidently or on purpose and the rounds burst. Contrary to what we see in the movies; if you throw live rounds into a fire they burst like that. They don't fire off like they would in a firearm. Other than that why else would modern ammo blow like that?

 

[mackmobile43]

Notice that three shell casings blew up - and on either side of the cylinder that was fired - and simultaneously?
Those shells must have been sabotaged with a high explosive; perhaps 'petn' that is used in detonating caps.
Hmmm . . .

You saying the Chinese are using IED's on us?

Is the barrel slugged or did the round clear?

 

[Eastside]

A family friend is a ffl gunsmith and I was over to his house visiting and he showed me a 38 pistol that the owner had shot it and the barrel bulged...what had happened was he shot a squib rd and it lodged in the barrel....then he shot a 2nd rd and it bulged the barrel...he was lucky it did not blow up in his face I reckon.

 

[mackmobile43]

Yeah I reckon

 

[AudioShockwav]

See Below:
http://www.craigboyce.com/w/2011/04/44-magnum-ammo-accident/

http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=132413

http://www.hayabusa.org/forum/random-thoughts/123712-s-w-44-magnum-accident.html

44 MAGNUM EXPLOSION

Lots of possibilities. Wrong powder, double charge, too light of a charge, no charge and the previous bullet stuck in the forcing cone, crimp too light and bullet set back. Too much crimp is unlikely as it would be almost impossible to crimp so tight as to cause that much damage. Could have loaded the wrong ammo. Cylinder didn't index. Too heavy of a bullet for the powder charge. Barrel obstruction.

It blew up and out so his hand was ok. The top strap broke at the front of the frame, peeled back and broke off at the rear. That's what hit him in the face.

I load on a progressive, don't weigh every charge, but I do look in the case as I seat the bullet. Have loaded several hundred thousand rounds with out incident. Did blow up a .22 in Jr. High School but that's another story.


Have fired a .40 S&W out of my Les Baer target .45. Blew the mag out and the grips off. Have had case failures in my IPSC gun when it had a barrel in it with an unsupported chamber. That was common when the .40 first came out.

73
Jeff