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.
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The story is a policeman was at an advanced pistol seminar.
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.
The story is a policeman was at an advanced pistol seminar. During a break in the shooting he was picking up live "cleared" rounds off the ground and loading them in his 1911 mags. Made the error of loading a .40 S&W in his .45ACP mag. During a string the .40 chambered but did not fire. He did a slide rack to fix the stoppage which drove the live .40 round into the barrel. The discharge of the .45 round with a live .40 in the barrel made total junk of the 1911 and his reputation. Shooter was not injured. Why the .40 round stayed in the barrel is a mystery to me. The pistol must have been pointing up to keep the round in the barrel. A live .40 round will pass through a .45 barrel.
Last summer saw a shooter try to fire .32ACP in a .380. He realized something was wrong after two failures to fire without ejecting a live round. No harm done but the guy felt like a total *** hat for not knowing the caliber of his pistol.
Be careful on the range! These people walk among us.
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.
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!
Be careful on the range! These people walk among us.
You would not believe some of the stuff I have had to deal with a have seen while working as an RSO.
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