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Chris Z:
I've shot thousands upon thousands of reloads in my .40 Glocks and never had one blow up.

My CCW teaching partner blew up one of his Glock .40's with a brand new KKM fully supported match barrel. Round was double charged we believe.

Chris Z:
I'm thinking I would rather have a Glock turn to plastic dust in my hands like this:

http://neccw.blogspot.com/2008/02/ammunition-safety-and-storage.html



Instead of a 1911 piece of steel twisting up like this in my hand:

http://www.thegunzone.com/1911a1-kb.html



Good reminders to pay attention to what the heck you are doing while at the reloading bench.

JimP:
.... given my druthers, I'd druther  have NIETHER (I like my guns).

That said.............. I think (IMHO- definitely humble- as I have only 10 yeears or so of pistol shooting (and even less reloading) experience) the glock platform in .40S&W, suffers a perfect storm of sorts, with respect to KaBooms:  You take a high pressure cartridge (for a pistol) like the modern 9mm, build a platform for it, then stuff an even HIGHER pressure cartridge into it, in an effort to equal the performance of a larger, low pressure catridge (the .45 ACP).  The platform, as designed, has a chamber that is not fully supported, and is hell on brass (being a high pressure cartridge) in the first place.  Add reloaders, many of of whom like to see how much velocity  they can squeeze out of a load....... each step along this path cuts a little piece off the safety margain designed into the platform.......... and if I have learned ONE thing in dealing with German (OK- it's Austrian, but there is a joke in Germany- The Austrians are so resistant to change that "the Germans WERE Nazis- the Austrians ARE Nazis.") Engineering, it is this: Do NOT exceed the design parameters.  If it says "do not exceed 6,000 rpm", 6,001 can cause things to go pear-shaped in a hurry.

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