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Blew Up an XDM40 Today
SemperFiGuy:
--- Quote ---Perhaps I missed it in an earlier post, but, do you still have and could you post a pic of the (remains?? ) the case from when the pistol failed??
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Pic of the handgun after the blow up is posted earlier in this thread.
Regarding the cartridge case: Parts of it went in my face. And then were picked out. Other pieces were spread around the firing line by the blast. I did find a remnant on the ground that could have been the culprit, but not sure. Front part of the case was blown off at an angle. The base appeared to have been scraped very hard across the slide face, scarfing off part of the metal off into a flashing.
Since I couldn't definitively identify that piece of case as the culprit, it was left at the range. Shoulda done better, but I also lost my cool around there somewhere and wasn't all that lucid at the time.
sfg
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 03, 2014, 09:41:56 PM ---...but I also lost my cool around there somewhere and wasn't all that lucid at the time.
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No doubt! I would have been mentally out of the game.
Fly
Gary:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 02, 2014, 02:05:03 PM ---
Finally:
How to get back into the game? (And learn to Shoot-While-Flinching.)[/size]
newfalguyI hate when that happens.
sfg
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This exercise is good at removing flinching.
Again, glad my IW buddy is OK!
Lmbass14:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 03, 2014, 03:49:50 PM ---Took the remains to Tim Casteel, gunsmith @ Carl Jarl [locks & gunsmithing] on I Street in Omaha.
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--- Quote from: Chris C on August 03, 2014, 04:20:28 PM ---LOL I'd be real interested to hear what he finds out since he didn't even know how to put my M&P back together correctly after his assistant smith put the whole pistol in a vice to change out the sights and bent internal parts. The slide would still move back and forth when dry firing after he "fixed it". Had to send it back to S&W so it functioned correctly. I wouldn't let him touch any firearm!
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+1 I was told by a very prominent member of this board who I trust and respect, that their isn't any worthwhile gunsmiths in the Omaha area. None that he would take his firearms to anyway.
NE Bull:
Gery, that's a ok drill, but you Know that second shot is a dead one. I prefer to (have someone) random load a empty round (preferably a snap cap) in my mags. That way you do not know which will be the dead round. ALL the evil monsters WILL rear their ugly heads. I've done this with a few 'good' shooters (as well as myself)
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