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This might be better placed in the reloading section but I thought it might be seen by more members here.
A week ago I was test firing a new gun. Third round from the mag blew up. I damaged a brand new Wilson mag tube but that was repairable. The explosion shattered the follower, and made the mag spring 3" long. New spring kit solved that problem. The African black wood grips were destroyed. Other than my pride nothing was wrecked on the 5" gun past what was mentioned. That is what I assumed would happen on any case failure or dbl charge on a reload with a Government model 5". I have seen it happen now a half dozen times, three of which were mine.
The first thought is that the case blew. Which can happen but seldom does. All it takes is an examination of the primer to see the difference between a bad case and a case that explodes. Case explosion can be too much powder or in some cases with light charges, too little powder.
I was loading on a Dillion 650 with a case feed. I don't know what the small Kimber's ammo was being loaded on. Either way food for thought here...and a GREAT reason to own a good set of shooting glasses.
Bowed and cracked Kimber Ultra slide. Interesting enough the slide stop pin was blown out of this gun intact and the slide came off at the blast. Easy to see how that happened when you look at teh blast makes inside the gun. NEVER seen that one before.
Amazing to me the Kimber aluminum frame wasn't damaged at all!
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You can see the pressure on the blown cases by looking at the primers as compared to normal firing pin strikes on the lower cases. Flat primers in generally will denote excessive pressure.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Dane Burns on 2001-07-01 18:37 ]</font>
A week ago I was test firing a new gun. Third round from the mag blew up. I damaged a brand new Wilson mag tube but that was repairable. The explosion shattered the follower, and made the mag spring 3" long. New spring kit solved that problem. The African black wood grips were destroyed. Other than my pride nothing was wrecked on the 5" gun past what was mentioned. That is what I assumed would happen on any case failure or dbl charge on a reload with a Government model 5". I have seen it happen now a half dozen times, three of which were mine.
The first thought is that the case blew. Which can happen but seldom does. All it takes is an examination of the primer to see the difference between a bad case and a case that explodes. Case explosion can be too much powder or in some cases with light charges, too little powder.
I was loading on a Dillion 650 with a case feed. I don't know what the small Kimber's ammo was being loaded on. Either way food for thought here...and a GREAT reason to own a good set of shooting glasses.
Bowed and cracked Kimber Ultra slide. Interesting enough the slide stop pin was blown out of this gun intact and the slide came off at the blast. Easy to see how that happened when you look at teh blast makes inside the gun. NEVER seen that one before.
Amazing to me the Kimber aluminum frame wasn't damaged at all!
Case samples
You can see the pressure on the blown cases by looking at the primers as compared to normal firing pin strikes on the lower cases. Flat primers in generally will denote excessive pressure.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Dane Burns on 2001-07-01 18:37 ]</font>
