Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

[m41]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

Sounds like the OP was lucky. And for WIW, pertaining to no powder in the cartridge, a fired primer alone will not move the bullet in the casing at all. Matter of fact you will find that if you load up a 5.56 casing with a bullet and primer only,load it and fire it off you will not even hear the primer fire. You will only hear the hammer strike. So with all that aside you had a very reduced load somehow. Good on you for catching it.

 

[problemchild]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

This is why I switched from a 550, with NO powder check, to a 650 with a powder check.

When I called dillon I told them what happened and they were kind enough to allow me to "upgrade" to the 650.

Humans makes mistakes! The way I see it if I can have a powder check for low, no, high powder why not have it. I am still not sure how I missed the double charge on my 45 as I was looking in the cases at the time. I just missed it. I was loading a very docile target load when it happened. Lucky for me!

About 1 month ago my powder check alarm went nuts while I was loading 308. The wing nut for the powder bar had backed off and the powder was throwing "off" charges. If I did not have the powder alarm I would not have noticed the drop of 4-6 grains. So in my books it has paid for itself many times over.

By the way a steel frame gun would have contained the blast and blew it down the mag chute and saved my hands from injury. Just sayin.

JMO

 

[XTR]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

Mine was a steel framed 1911 with Packmyers so the frame and grips did not break like the polymer HK above, but the brass looked very much like that, freakishly so.

 

[rsplante]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: m41</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sounds like the OP was lucky. And for WIW, pertaining to no powder in the cartridge, a fired primer alone will not move the bullet in the casing at all. Matter of fact you will find that if you load up a 5.56 casing with a bullet and primer only,load it and fire it off you will not even hear the primer fire. You will only hear the hammer strike. So with all that aside you had a very reduced load somehow. Good on you for catching it. </div></div>

That is quite possible. When it bridges, it usually drops when I lower the ram and a small amount drops straight into the brass, with the rest going all over the bench. Usually I catch it and start over on that round, but I guess that one time I spent more time cleaning up the bench (and cussing) than keeping up with the status of which rounds were at what point in the process. I weigh every completed round now.

 

[dunes450r]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: nicholst55</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Rule #1: if <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">ANYTHING</span></span> feels, sounds, or <span style="font-style: italic">seems</span> different in <span style="font-style: italic">any</span> way, insure that the hole still goes <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">all the way</span></span> to the end of the barrel!

There are only two types of reloaders - those who have experienced a squib load, and those that <span style="font-style: italic">are going to</span> experience a squib load! </div></div>
THIS!! i had the same experience as the OP, except with an XDm 9mm. had a squib which lodged the bullet in the lands. i was shooting USPSA and when to clear the malfunction and when the next round didn't fully chamber i realized what had gone wrong.

 

[Prairie Wolf]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

I have had squibs loading for shotgun. Steel shot is a pain in the butt, so I have to do it single stage. I had a load go "poop" and actually saw the pellets go out the barrel about 8 feet from the muzzle. I at least had the sense to check the bore, and the wad was stuck. I found a piece of wire from an old fence to clear it and was back in business. It wasn't very long and it happened again and I had to go find that piece of wire again. I am quite sure I forgot the powder in those two shells.

 

[BraunTrout]

Re: Near Kaboom--Wake Up Call!!

Did the same thing once with a shotshell. Found out on the skeet range. I thought, "Man, that didn't kick, didn't make any noise, and I saw the shot charge heading toward the target. What just happened?" Then I realized that it was a squib. I thought it was kind of humorous until I started thinking about what would have happened if I had done that with rifle rounds. That's when I got the shakes. Yep, we're playing with fire, and extreme thermodynamics done have much wiggle room for error. Just glad it all turned out well for you. Experience is the best teacher. Glad you didn't get punished.