[Travis McGee]

You guys need to start a "guns blow up in my hands" club.

As long as you are okay, I guess it's funny. What happened, you reloading the same brass 500 times?

[PatrioticAmerican]

Every now and then, rarely, a piece of brass will be weak at the shoulder where the rim is creased. I got one of those. I just put the gun back together. The trigger springs were blown off, but they were laying on the shooting bench, so no problemo. I load to SAMMI spec, so there shouldn't have been a pressure problem. Who knows, maybe the breass had been nicked or something? Anyway, I still have my face so I'm happy.

[Eaker]

You guys need to start a "guns blow up in my hands" club.

I hope it stays a small club!! Even though I got right back on the horse it still takes me a few rounds to shake the jitters. I realize that it is a mental thing, but I have been called a mental thing before!!

I get by on my looks instead of my brain!!

PS: Squantos is acting like Santa Claus and all I got was a lump of something, and it WAS NOT coal!

;<)

for the two people who haven't seen TexasCowboy's Garand after I was through with it.............

Eaker

[SauronOfMordor]

You guys need to start a "guns blow up in my hands" club. As long as you are okay, I guess it's funny. What happened, you reloading the same brass 500 times?

I had a case crack in my .45 (Wolf ammo, non-reloaded factory ammo) which caused me to have to bring it to the gunsmith to get it out. Initially, I thought I had a live round jammed halfway in the chamber

Another time, guy shooting next to me had his gun blow up nicely (also using factory ammo). A bad magazine allowed a round to feed improperly, the round wound up partially in the chamber and partially out the ejection port, and as the slide came forward the extractor slammed into the primer. Bam! Nobody was hurt, but the blast made a mess of his magazine.

Bottom line: no matter how improbable an event is, if you shoot thousands of rounds per year, improbable things WILL eventually happen