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Blew Up an XDM40 Today
DenmanShooter:
--- Quote from: newfalguy101 on August 14, 2014, 09:52:46 PM ---I admit I don't know you well enough to know if this is supposed to be tongue in cheek or not, but on the off chance you actually believe this statement, consider this, NO guns are designed to fire out of battery, that's the reason "firing out of battery" is a failure....and ANY mechanical device *can* fail even the beloved glock.
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:) I am neither a Glock lover or a Glock hater. It just seems like that's all I hear is "Glocks never fail." But, really, in my opinion it doesn't matter how many grains of powder or the bullet weight or even a brittle case. If the gun is functioning properly, unless you use some wicked powerful powder, you can't put enough in to make the gun blow up (unless the barrel is plugged, which results in a different kind of catastrophe), the chamber should be built well enough to contain that overpressure. Glocks did however have an issue with .40 chambers allowing the case to bulge. So you have to check your .40 brass close when reloading if you are using range brass so you don't load some of that and try shooting it. That could have caused the OOB situation. In the case of .40 I would think that more likely than about any other scenario except maybe not seating the bullet correctly.
Lmbass14:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 14, 2014, 10:45:39 PM ---Or get a little 5-inch poky-rod for extraction purposes....)
Currently pondering the next move.
sfg
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The little 5-inch poky-rod is a very technical term. Everyone needs to keep one in the range bag.
As for you next move, if you need help, I just happen to have a G23 that would love to see some of you ammo.
--- Quote from: altheman2 on August 15, 2014, 12:13:07 AM ---
Best thing I can think of is eat more ice cream.
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+1
Also agree on to tedious job of weighing the ammo.
A friend of mine reloads off of a Dillion Press 650, and had a squib at the range. He weighted all the ammo to find if there was any others. Luckily, he had only 500 rounds, not ice cream buckets.
OnTheFly:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 15, 2014, 09:26:22 AM ---As you can see, the result is a whopping 8 grain weight range.
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This is exactly my experience when I was dealing with a reloading conundrum. Thought I might be able to weigh each round and pull out the odd ones, but the variance was SO huge, it was futile.
I'm a reloading newb, and I didn't think that was going to work. Though I wanted someone else to say what I was thinking.
Fly
altheman2:
Yeah shoot I knew there was going to be some variances but didn't think it was going to add up to 8 grains if you sorted by headstamp
66bigblock:
This thread is why I dont understand reloading. I love working with my hands, building stuff, fixing stuff, BUT, none of them when used as designed have the ablilty to take a finger off or worse.
66bigblock
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