Dan Wilson Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Heres what happens when you reload and (apparently) dont have a clue what your doing:eek: - dudes pretty lucky!! A guy came into our department the other day to ask a favor. He had a S&W 629 (44 Mag.) that he wanted to dispose of after a mishap at the range. He said there was a loud bang when he tested his new load and the gun smacked him in the forehead, leaving a nice gash. When the tweety birds cleared, this is what he saw...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Quote: When the tweety birds cleared, this is what he saw...... What the??!! Lucky all he saw was tweety birds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mt.crewchief Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I'll bet the guys at the range were quite impressed with him!!! You've got to really screw up to break a "29" like that!!!! I hope somebody stripped some of the useable parts from it before it was disposed of!!! Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenmonster Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Did all three top rounds in the cylinder detonate at the same time? Saw what was left of a .40 glock that had a double charge go off once about 1991. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fräulein Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 How? Was he pretending he was a gunslinger? the gun smacked him in the forehead, leaving a nice gash. Showed him who's boss. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted February 25, 2010 Author Share Posted February 25, 2010 I looked and looked at that cylinder and still cant figure out if the explosion touched off those other two rounds or did the cylinder distort enough on its way off to tear those shells apart. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjvr99 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Shotgun propellant overcharge/compressed charge, magnum primer, and over crimp - recipe for disaster. He's lucky he only lost a little blood, and not his hand. Alternately, the metal between the chambers shows a little oxidation and what seems to be striation ..... maybe a crack or cracks, or some metal fatigue ...... There's a lot of things that can go wrong very quickly when you're reloading. One of my favourites when I started, was cases splitting. I loaded 9mm Parrabellum using an 85gn bullet and around 7.5gn of shotgun propellant to get the energy up. Result was the cases seldom made 3 reloads before the case split or primer pocket became too worn out. My final competition load was a 150gn bullet and 4.8gn of propellant - smooth and soft on the hands, and with a subsonic muzzle velocity, easy on the ears too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil Sanchez Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I have been reloading for many years and the 1 potential problem I encountered was loading 44Mag. I was trying Unique powder to simulate 44 Specials. Unique is a fast burning powder and does not require a lot of powder. I did a double load in one case but I always look at the cases when I finished loading powder and discovered the double load. I would have been very sad to damage a Ruger Redhawk and possible personal injury. I now load only slow powders to eliminate that problem, and still check every batch. Wil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fräulein Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 The only thing I will reload, is the dishwasher. Call me lazy - but I just "save the empties and return them for the deposit". Except in the case of one rental car where we used the roof for a rest and left the trunk open. Then all of the empties ended up in the trunk. And I wasn't gonna bother cleaning that out. Gave something for the rental car people to wonder about when they were cleaning it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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