My very first KA-BOOM
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Lexthedestroyer
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Tagged to see how this plays out. I constantly run the pendulum of picking up a Kel Tec product, then read a story like this. It's a shame, because they do have some really cool concepts.
1 bullet. It's shown in the pics.
CreamySmooth
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Most likely, the bullet in the barrel is the result of the incident, not the cause. The casing ruptured or the barrel destructed, venting your gas in another direction rather than down the barrel. The bullet from that firing therefore doesn't have enough gas pressure to travel down and out.
As said earlier, most likely this is a faulty barrel or poor design. I wonder if there's a chance this metal looks like it does from a manufacturing flaw?? Any chance the bullet was the flaw, however unlikely?
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BCshooterFMJ
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Adding to the reason that no matter what people say about them, I will probably never buy a Keltec. Of course you hear about the bad more then anything, but I must say, I have never seen or heard of a gun that people love so much, yet then hear about them literally breaking so often.
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Anyad Pitchaya
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Just curious, how did you come to that conclusion?
Based on the pictures of the fracture face, which aren't the greatest of quality BTW, the failure appears to be catastrophic. That is, no fatigue or pre-existing cracks before the event.
As far as commenting on the quality of the material based on the surface appearance of the fracture face, it can't be done with any real intelligence. Material cross sections, micro hardness tests, and SEM examination of the fracture face will get you closer to determining if material properties were contributory to failure.
I have seen plenty of failures in forged Cr-Mo materials that looked exactly like that.
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I doubt if Vault or Kel Tec will make much of a problem for you as they will probabley be very happy that they are not being sued.....if you would have been injured and sued over the incident , it would have cost them alot more than a replacement pistol.....please keep us informed as to what happens.....take care and be safe...
easyrider604
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Didnt read the entire thread.....but the OP used the wrong ammo......,22wmr is a magnum ,22..... How that ammo even chambered?
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That's what it looks like to me was that a cast part??
That's your issue. A couple of the pictures of the top of the pistol show very clearly "22 WMR" imprinted on it.
I have seen plenty of failures in forged Cr-Mo materials that looked exactly like that.
^ This. I've seen stainless breaks that look like this too, and you really do need the right gear to figure what the failure mode was. Still, that chamber looks way thin.
^ This. I've seen stainless breaks that look like this too, and you really do need the right gear to figure what the failure mode was. Still, that chamber looks way thin.
