Revolver blew up

[tiriaq]

Back when it was easy to ship back and forth across the border, before ITAR raised its ugly head, a customer brought in a Mini-14 with a ruined barrel.
I sent the barreled action to Ruger. In due course, a Mini-14 barreled action arrived back. It had the same serial number as the one that I had sent. It was a new receiver and barrel, not the receiver that I had sent. The bolt and other parts were the originals. I suspect that rather than rebarrel the original receiver, Ruger just installed the action parts on a new barrel/receiver unit and applied the original serial number.
If this revolver could be shipped to Pietta (or the factory authorized service center) for repair perhaps a new receiver and cylinder could be installed and appropriately numbered.

 

[serg777]

Back when it was easy to ship back and forth across the border, before ITAR raised its ugly head, a customer brought in a Mini-14 with a ruined barrel.
I sent the barreled action to Ruger. In due course, a Mini-14 barreled action arrived back. It had the same serial number as the one that I had sent. It was a new receiver and barrel, not the receiver that I had sent. The bolt and other parts were the originals. I suspect that rather than rebarrel the original receiver, Ruger just installed the action parts on a new barrel/receiver unit and applied the original serial number.
If this revolver could be shipped to Pietta (or the factory authorized service center) for repair perhaps a new receiver and cylinder could be installed and appropriately numbered.

Problem with this solution is that you can export handgun all day long but since recent can never reimport it. That's why local business is the only (and seems still questionable) option to replace the whole frame with same serial. But yeah, replacing the whole receiver with matching serial is a very common and viable case.

 

[B]

Problem with this solution is that you can export handgun all day long but since recent can never reimport it. That's why local business is the only (and seems still questionable) option to replace the whole frame with same serial. But yeah, replacing the whole receiver with matching serial is a very common and viable case.

It was never common... I can agree it is a grey area at best. Nobody reputable is likely to take on the work. Things have changed in a big way as you should be aware. If the government caught wind of this I have zero doubt people would be in trouble.

 

[Deathrawt]

Ok I'm going to be "that guy"
the solution is simple, go get yourself a frame and cylinder from an uberti 1873 revolving carbine and simply transfer your pietta parts onto it
Then watch some liberal heads explode! lol
ok in all seriousness I don't recommend this unless something bad happens like a government collapse/end of the world scenario
but then again we are all criminals in the mind of the liberal so at what point do we say do I even GAF anymore?

 

[gaff]

GUNCO Ottawa is the fix
and for whoever said to turn it in for compensation? there is no compensation for handguns..............

 

[rimmer]

Again courtesy of the OP.

You still have 3 good chambers.

 

[rimmer]

Please educate me, I’m new at reloading. What effect would a breeze or fan have?

Also using a florescent light near your reloading area will throw off your readings.

 

[bush1]

You still have 3 good chambers.

Damn, you beat me to it... lol

 

[antiqueguy]

So, producing a new gun and applying an existing serial number and not adding it to the database is not manufacturing?

According to the RCMP's current interpretation of the law you cannot make a gun without a manufacturing license.

I thought we were allowed to make our own firearms under our license? Atleast that’s how it used to be maybe not for restricted.

 

[53Izzy744]

Update??

 

[Canuck65]

Bad crimp pushing the next bullets back under recoil? Mistake measuring load? I guess you'll never know. Super scary - glad to hear you're okay.

 

[B]

Bad crimp pushing the next bullets back under recoil? Mistake measuring load? I guess you'll never know. Super scary - glad to hear you're okay.

Bullets tend to move out, not in from recoil in a revolver. This is almost certainly a case of too much powder.

 

[trevj]

Update??

Yeah, I'd be interested too.

FWIW, I have an original Colt cylinder that looks almost exactly like the OP's, that I bought at a gun show, as a curiosity, some years back.

I still think it worth a weld job, and a trip out to Oskar Kob for a color case job, and carry on as if normal! LOL!

 

[theshootist]

I’d hang onto to it and see who’s willing to repair it and at what cost. If it’s personally feasible do it, otherwise leave it as is until there’s a change in the government. Maybe someday we will get a sensible government to lift the stupid and unnecessary handgun freeze.

 

[I Dont Care About You]

Bullets tend to move out, not in from recoil in a revolver. This is almost certainly a case of too much powder.

It is also possible to occur from too little powder. It is called Secondary Explosive Effect. Has to do with incomplete combustion of small powder charge, which releases the nitroglycerine content of the powder, which then causes a big bang, directed upwards.

 

[B]

It is also possible to occur from too little powder. It is called Secondary Explosive Effect. Has to do with incomplete combustion of small powder charge, which releases the nitroglycerine content of the powder, which then causes a big bang, directed upwards.

I'm with SPEER on that, SEE doesn't exist in small arms and/or cartridges using single or double based powders, aside from being used as an excuse for guys that double charge and can't admit it.

 

[I Dont Care About You]

The people who may have experienced SEE, often report a delay between pulling the trigger and the gun blowing up. There would be no delay in the event of a double charge.

For sure SEE can't happen with more modern single base powders because they simply don't have the nitroglycerine content.

 

[saskgunowner101]

Looking back at the start of the thread, clearly this was not a case of SEE (which, AFAIK is from too little of a slower powder, and even then, they can't create SEE at will last time I checked). He was over the max book load by 8-10 percent with a very fast powder. If the scale was off or there was a bit of a draft, could have been even more.

 

[VICIOUS]

AUCTION Icollector try SFRC, there is two Pietta 45 colt and 45 ACP cylinder . MAYBE a gunsmith might make one work? or not!

 

[B]

The people who may have experienced SEE, often report a delay between pulling the trigger and the gun blowing up. There would be no delay in the event of a double charge.

For sure SEE can't happen with more modern single base powders because they simply don't have the nitroglycerine content.

I'm still going with SPEER. They spent a lot of time and effort trying to replicate one and they still can't last I looked. If you can place the powder compressed against the primer in a case there is no amount primer supplied energy you can dump into a small amount of powder to get it to do anything it wouldn't at least often do under those circumstances.

I have spent time with double based powders and different blasting caps, with and without extra spices. Stuff like Bullseye and Titegroup can detonate, it's not as easy as using a tiny bit of powder and a primer though!