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    Interesting Range Day Find.

    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...
    Regards, Jim

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    I wonder if the breech is scored by the gas exiting the burst point? I wonder if there was visible blow-by?


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    I bet that makes them hard to reload....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom in N.J. View Post
    I bet that makes them hard to reload....
    Yeah... might need to braze the split closed first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Womack View Post
    I wonder if there was visible blow-by?
    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    Used to know someone that had a collection of things like that...
    Everyone who saw it wanted it. I prefer the kinds that are reloadable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve762 View Post
    A 9MM fired in a .40 S&W gives the same result.
    Could have been a .40 but I matched it to a .45 case.
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    Quote Originally Posted by usabaker View Post
    I prefer the kinds that are reloadable.
    Agreed, I have lots. I don't know what to do with oddballs, my collection has enough loaded live collectibles now.
    Regards, Jim

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    another odd situation

    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

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by USGI View Post
    Do you have a picture showing the primer strike? - Bob
    I did but the picture is blurry. It looked somewhat like that one
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    Quote Originally Posted by usabaker View Post
    looked somewhat like that one
    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.
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