Posted on 12/18/2009 7:27:05 AM PST by Sam_Damon
A Marshall County Sheriffs Deputy is recovering after a pistol blew up on Tuesday (November 30 -- sd) during qualifications, according to Chief Deputy Kevin Cecil.
The veteran officer was using a Glock 21 .45 caliber pistol with out of country ammunition at a shooting range outside of Moundsville, Cecil said.
Its believed the ammunition was bad, causing the receiver to blow apart in the sergeants hand.
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We shoot cowboy action, and cast wheelweights are just exactly right for that application - doesn't lead the barrels badly, doesn't splatter a lot, good accuracy at that distance.
A friend of a friend runs a small tire shop out in the country and doesn't generate enough discarded wheelweights to interest the recyclers in driving out to visit him. So he saves them in five gallon plastic buckets, and our friend picks them up. He does serious black powder target rifle, and the wheelweights don't work for him. He buys his lead alloy from a custom metals supplier.
I believe it's in Phil Sharpe's old book Complete Guide to Handloading. He had hard words for the owner too. The guy's lucky to be alive.
Of course, I'm a perfectionist (weigh every load, weigh every bullet - except for the cowboy stuff which is pretty quick and dirty, but I do put everything in a loading block and check twice to make sure the powder is in the same level in every case. I shoot a fairly average .38 Sp load, so a double charge would be obvious. Some of the cowboy folks shoot a REALLY downloaded charge, you could get a double charge in there and not notice it. I kind of think it's cheating when the bullet just rolls out the barrel, plus of course it increases the danger of a squib.
Did you try to buy any ammo in the first few months, like around 9, of this year. Better foreign made ammo than none at all. (I bought 250 rounds of .45 in late October last year, and then have another 500 rounds on order now, and it's still back ordered 'til after Christmas.
There is a video on this website.
http://www.wtov9.com/news/21866969/detail.html
Supposedly, this is a brand new gun, so there could have been some defect in manufacturing. Even though it is new, it should have been properly cleaned and lubricated before anyone used it, but perhaps it wasn’t.
I also noticed that there appeared to be some sort of sherriff department logo engraved on the slide. It’s possbile that the person that did the engraving had the slide in a vice or something, and it deformed it.
I wouldn’t think the sheriff’s dept. would buy cheap ammo, but who knows. Glock specifically says not to use realoads.
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