Death of a .45 acp barrel

[stormbringer]

Well.............

After watching the video of my 3 gun match stage in which my .45 died I think I have a diagnosis.

OVER CHARGE!!

You can see a HUGE ball of flames shoot out on my 4th shot...

I thought it died on the fifth shot as the recoil was NUTS!

As it was my barrel chamber must have blown out on my 4th shot...

Thus it was jammed tight when I tried my fifth shot. The Side was only able to come back about 3/4 of an inch so the spring did not take any of the forces...

Anyway............at least it was caught on tape.


I love the part where I say "that aint good" after trying to Slam the slide back and finding it did not move at all.

 

[helmet head]

How much work will it take to fix?

 

[mdbuckle]

I am sorry for your loss...

Sounds to me like an excuse to buy more gun stuff!!! Yay!

 

[stormbringer]

How much work will it take to fix?

From what we can see the slide is just fine.......

A new barrel and I will be back in the fight!

 

[scotty]

What kinda 1911 was it?

Norinco?

 

[Pure Energy]

Yeah make and round count out of curiosity?

 

[DaveMachine]

Nice pasty legs

I'm curious as to the manufacturer of the barrel/gun too.

 

[308BAR]

Any pictures of the barrel? Truly sucks to loose barrel.

 

[colinjw]

Have you any ideas yet as to why you had an overcharge ?
Obviously you don't want a repeat performance of your 4th shot.

 

[stormbringer]

Its a Springfield 1911NM......

The barrel is not original..........I blew the lugs off it years ago at about 10k rounds.

This barrel was used and I would put it at 6k that I have put through it.

Looking at the barrel you cannot see much of a bulge......but it is certainly there.

The loads I was using were made on my Lee 1000. I have since moved to a Hornady LNL

 

[ckc123]

From the video, other then the large flash non the 4th, it looks like the recoil was stronger/different on the 5th shot.

 

[Max Owner]

I was expecting something more dramaitc.

Glad thats all tha happened, my future EESA buddy.

 

[stormbringer]

From the video, other then the large flash non the 4th, it looks like the recoil was stronger/different on the 5th shot.

Yes the 5th had more recoil...........as I suggested I think that the barrel was already jammed as a result of the 4th shot. Thus it did not allow the side to function in absorbing some of the recoil.

 

[cybershooters]

It's really hard to wear out .45 barrels imx. Usually you kill them by wearing out the feed ramp or the lugs or something, it's such a low pressure round.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

Oh my, that is painfull to watch.

A pic of the barrel would be nice though. Ive never seen a .45 barrel blow out.

Rob

 

[ian_in_vic]

"that ain't good" should get an award for understatement in the face of adversity! Glad to ear nothing/no one other than the barrel were damaged.

 

[FirstBMW]

hold on a minute...
Storm was at the EESA and he got to shoot?
WOW...what was the special occasion?

 

[NAA]

Storm - Glad you weren't hurt & your pistola only needs a new barrel...

 

[stormbringer]

hold on a minute...
Storm was at the EESA and he got to shoot?
WOW...what was the special occasion?

LOL..........actually I had to escape to BARRIE to actually do some shooting. I never get to do that at EESA>