If it was a bad piece of brass it would give out and blow out on the ramp side. A double charge might pop the gun open enough to release the primer while leaving the case in the chamber as it vents downward into the magazine well due to the hight than normal pressures being produced.
I had a .40 Kaboom
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I finely have some pics for everybody.
The first pic is the exploded case in the chamber, the second pic is a fired (unexploded case) in the chamber.
Now let me get this strait, it's unsafe to reload glock brass ??? So glock shooter don't reload there own brass ??? Hmmm.
The first pic is the exploded case in the chamber, the second pic is a fired (unexploded case) in the chamber.
Now let me get this strait, it's unsafe to reload glock brass ??? So glock shooter don't reload there own brass ??? Hmmm.
Still a double charge in my view. Yes the case is unsupported much like the first Glocks were but take a hard look at your primer pocket. If the brass just let go at the ramp you still would not have seen the primer blow out of the case and the damage to the barrel ramp looks fairly bad as well as it took a piece off of it as well.
As an aside my Dillon dies used to remove the infamous Glock Bulge when you saw more of the Gen 1 Glocks on the range. I was shooting the Tanfoglio .40 cal at the time and that gun fully supported the .40 cal brass and once the brass went through that gun there was never a problem with any of the .40cal brass.
If I were you I would just be a little more careful when reloading with your 550B. If you have to leave the press while reloading clear the press before you leave the bench. It is all to easy to come back and just pull the handle and double up on an already filled case. With the .40 case it is easy to miss using relatively fast powders.
Take Care
Bob
As an aside my Dillon dies used to remove the infamous Glock Bulge when you saw more of the Gen 1 Glocks on the range. I was shooting the Tanfoglio .40 cal at the time and that gun fully supported the .40 cal brass and once the brass went through that gun there was never a problem with any of the .40cal brass.
If I were you I would just be a little more careful when reloading with your 550B. If you have to leave the press while reloading clear the press before you leave the bench. It is all to easy to come back and just pull the handle and double up on an already filled case. With the .40 case it is easy to miss using relatively fast powders.
Take Care
Bob
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I do not have a Glock. I shoot CZ 85C and my load is flushed with the rim of the barrel. Is this the case with Glocks? Can you push the loaded casing further in by reducing OAL?
I finely have some pics for everybody.
The first pic is the exploded case in the chamber, the second pic is a fired (unexploded case) in the chamber.
Now let me get this strait, it's unsafe to reload glock brass ??? So glock shooter don't reload there own brass ??? Hmmm.
Reducing the OAL by seating the bullet deeper into the case can result in over pressurization KABOOM depending on powder load. To get the round further into the chamber would require case trimming beyond the min case length recommendation then you will be dealing with a whole new other issue of excessive headspace/over pressurization KABOOM, provided your firing pin can reach the primer or the round doesn't rattle back and forth in the breech.
Either you are missing something or I am. The primer did not blow out of the case. And by the way that is not a large chunk missing from the feed ramp, that is how they come from the factory. That is why we had the one here welded up and reshaped.
while mine wasn't a double charge, it blew out the same way and shot the mag out of my glock, i shot it 15 minutes later!
i was new to reloading and went from w231 to tightgroup with i believe the same powder charge, i had to pull 99 rounds.
as to the OP, if it wasn't a double charge, i could see it being an out of battery like antoine suggested. assuming the jericho can fire out of battery.
Lots of firearms can fire out of battery. It just depends on how much out a little it can do it allot it can't.
The picture at the top just needs 2 eyes and it's a happy face....
I finely have some pics for everybody.
The first pic is the exploded case in the chamber, the second pic is a fired (unexploded case) in the chamber.
Now let me get this strait, it's unsafe to reload glock brass ??? So glock shooter don't reload there own brass ??? Hmmm.
if you look the brass is sititng allot higher in the top picture then the bottom. So it might of been a little to long of a round that caused that as well.. I check all my ammo with a caliber before I shoot it I go max first then min second then drop it into a case gage and make sure it sits flush. Do you use a case gage?
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That's because it's a blown case and can't go forward any more due to the chunk of case formed to the feed ramp...
Sorry I mistook the 2nd picture for your case. Either bullet set back or double charge pick one. Clearly it was an over pressure round. Of the two I would go with a double charge and just watch your reloading technique.
Take Care
Bob
I don't have a case gage, maybe I will buy one. Some one also mentioned to me, not to reload nickel cases. Is this true ?
A case gage will only tell you if the round is to long, right ?
If the bullet was set back to far or a double charge, would it be louder? This round sounded the same as all the others.
if the bullet wasn't seated enough, that would kinda make sense.
A case gage will only tell you if the round is to long, right ?
If the bullet was set back to far or a double charge, would it be louder? This round sounded the same as all the others.
if the bullet wasn't seated enough, that would kinda make sense.
Dig through some of your brass.. The same nickle plated cases if possible and look for bulges.. I'm 99% sure this is nothing more than a reload from a very unsupported chamber finally giving way..
Again I would NOT reload brass out of that barrel
Again I would NOT reload brass out of that barrel
Nickle brass is fine to reload. From my experience it doesn't last as long as brass - brass due in part to the nickle plating. I find it splits down the side after a few reloads. No big deal.
Take Care
Bob
Designed to feed well and it definitly will.
mudgunner49
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This right here - as an aside, I don't believe that nickle plated brass that we're seeing now is the same as what was around 25 years ago. I have some .38 Special that has been reloaded so many times that the nickle is actually wearing through, no flaking and no splits (admittedly, all mild loads - 2.8 gr BE).
The nickle plating originally came about as a fix for sticky cases in magnum revolver loads in order to ease extraction and they've migrated into a myriad of other usages now (like keeping down the tarnishing of rifle ammo carried out in the weather - and probably easing extraction there as well).
While I have buckets of nickle pistol cases, mostly due to the fact that it's free, give me brass any day of the week, preferably non-cannelured for SWC loads, cannelured for WC loads...
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