Okay - I was going on factory loaded ammo. Yes, double charge and detonation (slow burning powders not filling enough of the case) can be significant sources of these kinds of incidents for KB's involving reloads.
Yet another reason to have any serious gun magnafluxed before you start shooting it. That load didn't cause that, regardless of where it came from. Those cylinders are designed to take that kind of abuse, and will unless defective. If simply firing a load will blow the cylinder right in half, you'd never make it through a whole box of ammunition.
Yet another reason to have any serious gun magnafluxed before you start shooting it. That load didn't cause that, regardless of where it came from. Those cylinders are designed to take that kind of abuse, and will unless defective. If simply firing a load will blow the cylinder right in half, you'd never make it through a whole box of ammunition.
On the surface this is true, however if the round in question is too large to fit through the bore, then therein could lie the culprit...Of course though it's all hearsay... :dontknow:
I sent a link to the story to a firearms instructor for the Florida State Police who's spent some time in forensics - it'll be interesting to hear his take on it. Guy's forgotten more about handguns than most people will ever know. I know I'm curious. I've often wondered how cylinders, chambers, and barrels can take as much pressure as they do for as long as they do. Seems impossible sometimes.
I sent a link to the story to a firearms instructor for the Florida State Police who's spent some time in forensics - it'll be interesting to hear his take on it. Guy's forgotten more about handguns than most people will ever know. I know I'm curious. I've often wondered how cylinders, chambers, and barrels can take as much pressure as they do for as long as they do. Seems impossible sometimes.
Would be interesting to know, but as i said, if you plug the barrel and try to shoot a projectile thru it, bad things happen. I've seen it first hand, a friend of mines son and his buddy thought it would be cool to shove the barrel of their .22 in the mud and shoot the rifle. This resulted in a catastrophic destruction of the gun, and lodged an 8" piece of gun barrel in the kids shoulder... :tard:
I'm sure. Can't have any kind of pressure release, or muzzle velocity would drop to somewhere near ineffective. All those expanding gases have to go somewhere, so something's gotta give...
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