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cclaxton
11-12-2014, 08:53 AM
I just don't believe this. Wasn't he paying attention to the target? Wasn't it obvious something was not right?
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-a-bullet-gets-stuck-in-a-gun-and-you-1657411557?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_faceboo k&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O-wxNBJR--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/omamfciqg1uiper3pdrj.jpg

Artemas
11-12-2014, 09:24 AM
"Well thar's yer problem!"

This guy is lucky to still have hands.

MGW
11-12-2014, 10:17 AM
That doesn't even seem possible. There had to be next to zero powder in the rounds.

JTQ
11-12-2014, 11:48 AM
Wasn't he paying attention to the target?
Isn't the instruction usually, "stop looking at the target and concentrate on the front sight"? Maybe sometimes you do need to look at the target.

JV_
11-12-2014, 12:12 PM
I've seen that photo before, at least I think I have, and I thought it was a deliberate test.

JV_
11-12-2014, 12:18 PM
I've seen that photo beforeI'm mistaken, it wasn't that gun.

MichaelD
11-12-2014, 12:54 PM
Hmm... that looks dangerous.

Lon
11-12-2014, 01:57 PM
Had a guy come into the gun shop I used to work at with something similar. Fired all six from a 586. Last one was half in cylinder and half in forcing cone. The shop used to have the barrel somewhere. No bulges or cracks in the barrel.

Tamara
11-12-2014, 03:24 PM
Happens more often than you'd think. Here's an Airweight J-frame that filled the bore, reloaded, and then noticed something was wrong when a bullet got jammed up halfway between cylinder and forcing cone. (You can see that some vigor was used in trying to open the cylinder.)

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/ag421/Tamara_Keel/obstructedbore_zps1fa5512b.jpg (http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/Tamara_Keel/media/obstructedbore_zps1fa5512b.jpg.html)

Peally
11-12-2014, 04:03 PM
I feel the best way to express my emotions here is via gif:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n254/Peally/truckinwtf.gif

How does someone seriously do that? Not only do it but not lose a finger in the process?

NEPAKevin
11-12-2014, 04:14 PM
There was a similar picture going around of a Ruger Blackhawk's cut out barrel with multiple obstructed projectiles.

JV_
11-12-2014, 04:33 PM
There was a similar picture going around of a Ruger Blackhawk's cut out barrel with multiple obstructed projectiles.

Yes, that was the one that I was confusing with this one.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rugerblackhawk.jpg

ACP230
11-12-2014, 06:43 PM
Somewhere, there was an older pic of a S&W .38 Special revolver (Victory?) with a barrel full of lead slugs.
Taken off of a VC, or NVA troop during the VietNam War.
Fired a lot, not many hits though.

I have stuck a couple of LSWC reloads with too little powder, or maybe just a primer, but always noticed the "pop?" when I expected a BANG!

JTQ
11-12-2014, 07:43 PM
Somebody has shown what they claim to be a .300 Blackout in a .223 barrel. It is just the one round stuck, but I suspect you'd figure out that one after just one shot.

nycnoob
11-12-2014, 09:46 PM
I bet if Bill Riehl could do far better then those photos if he put his mind to it.

Maple Syrup Actual
11-12-2014, 10:32 PM
Somebody squibbed a Glock 20 of mine a few years ago...one squib, followed by a non-squib.

The gun still ran, kind of, but it had a bulge in the barrel.

$100 barrel replacement, and back off to the races.


Anyway the big lesson there is don't drink and reload at 1 am halfway through Aim Fast, Hit Fast.

backtrail540
11-13-2014, 12:42 PM
I've had to stop a few guys at matches while ROing who had squibs and didn't notice during the excitement. Also had guys stop themselves when they occurred. Some make very obvious different sounds, some I couldn't tell the difference and the guy with the gun just happened to be able to tell. I've also heard low charged rounds that I or guys behind the line swore were squibs and weren't. The main thing that links all of the squibs i've seen personally, they were all reloads.

Rich
11-22-2014, 08:43 AM
I had it happen once.

Totally my fault since it was my reload 148WC / S&W M13 and a Dillon SD Press. I caught it on the first shot. Boy was I embarrass to bring it in to the shop.

I don't see how someone could keep shooting unless it was a youngster or a newbie .

revolvergeek
11-24-2014, 11:57 AM
I have seen that happen twice when I was working at a range in the early 90s. The worst was a guy that bought his Official Police up to the counter complaining that he could not pull the trigger nor open the cylinder. He said one minute it was shooting fine but then just stopped turning. He had the old Winchester 130 Q load FMJs stuck all the way from just barely out the tip of the barrel to back into the forcing cone.

TR675
11-24-2014, 12:08 PM
I don't see how someone could keep shooting unless it was a youngster or a newbie .

I've done it. I had my trigger finger working faster than my brain was while shooting a GP100.

"Bang, bang, bang, [nothing], bang, [WTF?], bang, [was that a squib?], click, reload, DAMN IT I THINK THAT WAS A SQUIB."

If it was a squib I think it had enough juice to get out of the barrel. Barrel seems fine. No more inaccurate than usual, I guess. There is a strange gap between the frame and the forcing cone but I don't know if it's always been like that or what...