[Noumenon]

Learned it the hard way. About 15 years ago, I bought a bag of gun show reloads for my Glock mod 30. This was before I met the missus and we migrated to SIGs in .40

The first three rounds, no problemo. Then - kaboom! Fortunately, the gun retained the slide, but the grip body was cracked, the slide distorted and the magazine was spat out the gun along with the unexpended rounds. Wasn't hurt aside from a little numbness to my hand and I had to pick a couple of pieces of brass out of my face.

The lesson here is obvious - don't ever buy gun show reloads! Never did find the guy who sold 'em, BTW. He was basically MIA from then on. I'm guessing that I wasn't the only dissatisfied customer.

[Lurker]

I roll all my own from once fired factory brass that I fired. That and I only use two powders, Bullseye and Unique for that caliber. And I NEVER have them both on the bench at the same time. Never.

I'm so anal about it I do them all on a single stage press. Call me a reactionary but I just don't trust those fancy shmancy progressive jobs.

[PowderMonkey]

I admit to being a bit paranoid sometimes, but whenever there's a spate of these occurrences (unexplained Kb!s), I'm reminded of a little project conducted by SOG: Project Eldest Son

[mylife]

Blew the damn mag out and locked the slide!

That is what I saw.

twice.