Well a few days ago i was testing out a few rent guns to see what i liked better and off to my far right hand side a man has his glock 40 blow up right in his face
here are some pictures
everyone ran to him and asked what happen... This makes me not want to fire my glock 19....:headshake
I don't beleive reloads was the problem. Pistol cartridges use the hottest powder there is in the first place. At standard load, they are near max capacity by volume. I just don't beleive you can get enough powder in a .40 case to do THAT kind of damage.
Personally I think he had a barrel obstruction. It's the only real explaination I can think of. I have seen some really foolish reloading. Never anything like that. If it were a rifle loaded w/ pistol powder, I would beleive that. {Ive seen that!} But a pistol barrel is so short, most of the time excess powder just gets blown out the end. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I don't beleive it. He had to have had a squib load leave a bullet lodged in the barrel or something. A barrel obstruction would do that.
i did not get to look at the gun for long cuz the man over the range took it so he could have a better look, but did get them pictures from somone elses cell phone... i know shooting led in a glock is a big no no but i dont think he was using reloads....
By the looks of the ruptured case, and the blown out primer, it sure looks like an overpressure issue. More so because the majority of the damage is around the chamber. Most squib load damage is further down the barrel resulting in splitting and bulging.
This was something catastrophic right in the chamber. I tend to think possibly bullet seating or other reload issues may have caused this.
I've had an overcharged load go through my Glock 21 one time. It was a round I got care of Georgia Arms. The gun was fine after that, but it sure blew the sucker clean out of my hands and had the range owner running out to see if someone "had a grenade." No internal damage, though.
I saw this same thing once from a reloader who had reloaded his cases a few to many times, and they were to thin to hold the pressure, a few extra grains of hot powder and this is what it looked like. It wasn't in a Glock it was in a Ruger. He was using cheap brass anyway so that might have been an issue. Sardude is right, when it happens because of a blockage it is usually farther down the barrel, unless the blockage is right at the front.
If the barrel was clear, wouldn't the pieces of brass casing have at least blown out the end? Does the fact that the split front-end of the casing is still in the barrel say it was obstructed?
No, not necessarily. The brass is held by the back of the cartridge in the barrel. When it wears, it does so on the sides, but not so much on the much thicker back where it comes in contact with the chamber. When it bursts, it does it like confetti. This is what I see in the pictures. Not sure if this is the reason, but if I were the smith I would venture to guess.
Brass ammo, doesn't look like Wolf. It seems to be hot loaded there was possibly a crack in the chamber before hand. I couldn't really make an assessment without seeing the loads and the gun. Just an educated guess, I would like to see what the smith who handled the pistols after the incident says.
I've never heard about a glock blowing up with normal factory-made ammo, it's always with reloads. So my guess is, just don't shoot reloads in a glock. If you want to shoot reloads, buy another kind of gun.
Look at the flash hole in the first picture. To blow out that big this thing had to explode. Only time I have ever seen this was from a double charge from a fast burning powder. Could have even been a triple charge.
Another Glock Kaboom. Looks like it blew right out the bottom where the case is unsupported. This is a more than occasional occurance with Glocks. One blew up in a friends hand two days ago. 10mm with factory ammo. He lucked out, no injuries to him. Another man I met at a gun show had a 40 Glock blow up and he was having his third hand surgery. Glock afficianados will go to great lengths to deny that their favorites can go bad and will blame everything but the poorly designed barrel. I'm sure my comments will set off a frothy defense of these Austrian gifts to hand and face reconstructive surgeons retirements funds. A quick check on a search engine for Glock Kabooms will surprise you. Here's just one story.
I didn't own a Ford Pinto, I don't base jump, skin dive with sharks, climb the outside of sky scrapers and I especially do not shoot Glocks. I have polymer, but it's an FNP-45, fully supported chamber.
If you must shoot those things, Get a safe replacement barrel like a Bar Sto.
Hi,
I just bought a new Taurus -357-7 shot-#66SS. I use it 4 times when I opened a new box of Rem.357-124 gr. bullets. I took the first shot and it blow up. I found all 7 bullets. The bullet that went off, you can see that the firing pin hit it dead center. If you need any high res.pictures of the gun,
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02-01-08 03:59 PM - Post#57626
In response to Hipshot
I just bought a brand new 608. Sometimes you get the bear... and sometimes the bear gets you! On my 4th shot on the first day out, the barrel exploded off the gun. A month later, still no replacement. Hopefully you'll have a better experience.
Good Luck.
Well, my take on a Taurus is not so hot right now. I had the 357 ss tracker blow apart in my hands Saturday at a public range while shooting factory PMC ammo. I only have burns and I am very lucky to have walked away from that incident. Not sure what I am going to do about it as of yet, but you can bet I'll never own or touch another Taurus.
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i guess no gun manufacturer is exempt from catastrophic mechanical failures.
I've shot and owed a lot of handguns and I carry one at work (S&W M&P .40). I've also carried a few others before the M&P including a .38 Special. Therefore your assumption is flawed.
If I couldn't own a Glock, it would be a Sig Sauer with 1911 Colt being a close second.
These blowns are quite strange: I´ve understood that Taurus has QA/QC procedures in USA - fl. for foreign manufacture guns...perhaps reloads? from some extreme
reloader nut?
Glock users are like a woman. You say the least little bit, they get thier feelings hurt and get all defensive I can't think of another brand of gun that has such a sensitive group of followers.
Yes, but I guess everybody who drives a [ford] (what's a cheap car brand in the US?) also prefers a Ferrari. And because I'm not rich, I probably buy a glock, because you get good quality for the money. So what I'm trying to say is that you can't compare them.
Sure you can compare them. How many parts does a Glock have? And a Sig? How did they do in "torture tests" respectively? How many LE groups and agencies use the Glock? And the Sig? Why is that?
Where I live right now, I could buy a Sig for only $115 more then a Glock .22 and for about the same as a Glock 20 or 21 and I imagine that the same price can be had anywhere in North America.
Lol, the diffirences between Europe and the US. In Europe you can buy handgun for target shooting if you have the proper licences. A glock is around €600 and a SIG is around €2000. What are the prices in the dollars in your city?
Lol, the diffirences between Europe and the US. In Europe you can buy handgun for target shooting if you have the proper licences. A glock is around €800 and a SIG is around €2000. What are the prices in the dollars in your city?
For the record I HATE Glocks. They have a grip feel similar to a 4x4 post. That said, I think they are a quality weapon and the damage seen here is from faulty ammo.
To echo what someone else said, any weapon can do this. Plug the barrel or feed it bad ammo and you may end up picking metal {or polymer} out of your forehead!
I do not believe there is enough room in the case to double load a .40 but that depends on the powder he was using. Fact is, there was a failure somewhere. I believe it was to thin of case and hot loaded, but that is my take and I am not so knowledgeable about these things.
Well, to be honest, I don't THINK of a Glock as junk. They are not. They are reliable and do thier job well. I just can't stand them. I can't stand the feel of them. I can't stand the look of them. I can't stand the idea of carring a pistol glamourized by a bunch of gang bangers or bunch of damn cops.
I'm sure someone will tell me what a sorry design my XD-45 is. THat's okay. It's an american privledge to publicly ridicule what we don't like. And that's what it boils down to. I don't think any of us 'Glock H8ers' really believe they are junk, becaue that's just not true. They are extremely well manufactured handguns. PERIOD.
Okay touchy feely moment of honesty is over...Glocks suck!!!!:rofl:rofl:rofl
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