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Blew Up an XDM40 Today
MHicks:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 01, 2014, 08:42:45 AM ---So if any of you Fiine Folks happen to have a Springfield XDM40 frame laying around in your junk box, I just may have a slide and a magazine. We could put them together and see what happens with a new batch of reloads.
Just Thinkin'..............
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Glad you are unscathed, for the most part. I have an XDM40 frame, not in a junk drawer, but I have it. I am kind of curious as to the cause. I guess we may never know.
If you want to see if you can blow mine up also I'd be willing to meet you at ENGC and let you work your magic.
SemperFiGuy:
Now you have come up with a most interesting suggestion.
PM sent.
sfg
DenmanShooter:
I think you are very lucky you weren't injured. And I am very glad for that. Weird things happen.
It reminded me of this video below...
newfalguy101:
The new line on top of the barrel hood suggest an out of battery detonation, could have been as simple as a high primer or a stuck firing pin.
A few years back I blew up a Kahr K-9 with an out of battery detonation, scared the daylights out of me............course in MY case, with a steel gun, I put the pieces back in ( blew out the ejector ) and ran a few more rounds through it the following day. I never really did find a satisfactory explanation for the failure ( most likely a bad handload, one of my own )
SemperFiGuy:
DenmanShooter
Interesting video you posted about the S&W M&P. Very closely parallels my own KA-BOOM! experience:
>Previous shooting was going along just fine.
>Got to/near end of magazine.
>KA-BOOM!
>Personal Shock and Awe (What in the &^%^%$#$%^ just happened?)
>Am I OK? Anything broken/busted/bleeding?
>Small amount of facial shrapnel, minor bleeding, small bit of hand trauma.
>Handgun now locked up.
>Handgun is bulged from inside out; various frame parts wrecked; slide appears to be less affected.
>High pucker factor results.
Biggest difference was that I was using own reloads; he claims factory ammo. Mighta been factory reloads, based on inferences in following video.
And my appreciation goes out to you and all other Forum members who have expressed relief at my personal safety. (Me, too.)
Finally:
How to get back into the game? (And learn to Shoot-While-Flinching.)
newfalguy
--- Quote --- ( most likely a bad handload, one of my own )
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I hate when that happens.
sfg
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