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I'm a range safety office at one of the gun clubs here and found a spent round that I found intresting.
The only thing I can figure is that someone by accident loaded a 9MM in to a .45 Cal mag and cycled them though his pistol. The cartadge is a 9MM and the expansion is .45.
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Used to know someone that had a collection of things like that...
I wonder if the breech is scored by the gas exiting the burst point? I wonder if there was visible blow-by?
Bob
I bet that makes them hard to reload....
:lol:Yeah... might need to braze the split closed first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom in N.J.
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I was wondering that as well. I think it was the folks that were there i the morning, they were new shooters. But I didn't see or hear any yelps...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Womack
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Everyone who saw it wanted it. I prefer the kinds that are reloadable.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
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Could have been a .40 but I matched it to a .45 case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve762
Agreed, I have lots. I don't know what to do with oddballs, my collection has enough loaded live collectibles now.Quote:
Originally Posted by usabaker
I was shooting some CCI long rifle in a 22 rim fire conversion kit installed in a Colt AR-15 Sporter when I heard a odd, different noise. As the long rifle cartridge was being started toward the chamber it went off ! The case bulged and bullet was found on top of the magazine after the bolt struck the loose bullet. Never seen anything like this before.Attachment 101246Attachment 101247
Here's a link showing a casing I found last year of a 40 fired out of a 45 ACP. Do you have a picture showing the primer strike? - Bob
https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=64190
I did but the picture is blurry. It looked somewhat like that oneQuote:
Originally Posted by USGI
Which looks like the start of a Glock oblong firing pin mark, or "striker" as you like. I think someone did it to see what would happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by usabaker
Pretty silly reason in the Youtube age:Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Firing the Wrong Caliber - YouTube
(Some of this guys videos are a little silly for my taste...others are fun and quasi-educational.)
Has always been my suspicion in these cases.
I have, I've seen its on .22's that have webble wobbly heads the heads hang up on the lip of the chamber and the bolt crimps the primer enough to discharge. Makes a crazneesem' report and metal flackeness to whats on the side of the discharge port.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCS
Usually a long story like that accompanies something that. I doubt it was actually that. The .40 would clear the barrel by gravity during the drills. You seldom actually find out what happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve762
When I was a boy there was no big game where I live and recreational shooting was unheard of except during hunting season and that was limited to .22's and shotguns pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve762
Never saw it actually happen but did see the results of smaller gauge shells getting lodged in the barrel, 20ga in a 12ga for instance, during the heat of the moment and another shell fired behind it.
Was on a hot dive shoot with Dad once and saw him fumbling around trying to reload while watching for incoming birds,he finally looked down to see what was the problem and noticed he was trying to load a bic lighter he'd accidentally stuffed into the wrong pocket into the magazine of his A-5.
About 15 years ago I walked up on a nice buck bedded down in a grove of trees, the first shot grazed a tree and hit off center of his neck failing to kill him on the spot. He took off running and I was trying to chamber a fresh round in my Marlin 35 for 2nd shot but nothing doing. After I lost sight of the deer going over the hill I looked to see what the problem was and saw I was trying to chamber a .308 round. I'm still thankful it was too long to let the close and I still dont know how I missed when I was loading the rifle.
I had a local guy in here a couple of months ago with a case stuck in a 1922 Browning pistol. Sure enough, he had loaded a .32 ACP in a .380 ACP pistol. It went off OK and stuck in the chamber. I popped it out easy enough and there was no damage to the shooter or pistol other than pride. Gotta pay attention to detail when messing with firearms!
Yes. that'll happen as they jam in tight. Not a .40 in a .45 though.Quote:
Originally Posted by vintage hunter
Know a guy that shot .32 S&W in .32 ACP pistol and it worked...part of the time. He brought it to me and asked what was wrong with this(thing)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Dick
You would not believe some of the stuff I have had to deal with a have seen while working as an RSO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve762