Think this was fired out of battery?

[JonF 79]

First off, not mine. i found this .45 recently in some range pickups, or more specificially, my resizing die found it and stopped the press dead in its tracks--there was no way it was going to iron out that lump! Thats a pretty damn nice pot belly its got going on, even more impressive that it didn't rupture. This isn't your standard Glocked brass, is it? I'm guessing its gotta be an OOB, no? Whoever touched this one off better count thier lucky stars they still have functional fingers ans/or gun.

 

[tj462nj 32]

wow, lucky they were J

[lunker 274]

Eek!

[Old School 611]

First off, not mine. i found this .45 recently in some range pickups, or more specificially, my resizing die found it and stopped the press dead in its tracks--there was no way it was going to iron out that lump! Thats a pretty damn nice pot belly its got going on, even more impressive that it didn't rupture. This isn't your standard Glocked brass, is it? I'm guessing its gotta be an OOB, no? Whoever touched this one off better count thier lucky stars they still have functional fingers ans/or gun.

 

 

VERY IMPORTANT!!! Need to see the case head and the primer. Please hurry!!

[Nikos 31]

I'm interested to see the primer as well.

 

Yeah, that's one lucky SOB to avoid the KB. I wonder if he's oblivious to what his gun spit out.

 

 

 

[JonF 79]

The headstamp is "R P" but the primer had already been knocked out with my decapper so there's no more evidence to see. Sorry.

[Maksim 1,504]

if it fired OOB, wouldn't the whole thing KB?

 

Seems like unsupported almost KB. =)

[Vlad G 345]

.45 is relatively low pressure, you'd be surprised that kind of abuse that case can take without exploding.

[JonF 79]

If so, that's a helluva of of "unsupported" area! The point to which the bulge tapers back seem like it could be the lateral terminus of the feed ramp of whatever barrel this was fired from. If so, im thinking it was sitting out of battery the distance form that point to where the shoulder of the body starts.

[Maksim 1,504]

If so, that's a helluva of of "unsupported" area! The point to which the bulge tapers back seem like it could be the lateral terminus of the feed ramp of whatever barrel this was fired from. If so, im thinking it was sitting out of battery the distance form that point to where the shoulder of the body starts.

 

If someone loaded it long I suppose it would not go all the way into battery. I have seen a few cases like that. It is remington nickel? or is that brass?

[Old School 611]

If someone loaded it long I suppose it would not go all the way into battery. I have seen a few cases like that. It is remington nickel? or is that brass?

 

Maks - If it was loaded long one of two things would prevented it from firing depending on the pistol. Of course I'm referring to an in spec pistol. #1 the dsiconnector would prevent it from firing or #2 the firing pin block would prevent firing. Most out of battery firings are a combination of issues.

 

I wanted to see the primer because it would have been easily identified as a GLOCK or not. I have heard that ( and it's a big secret) current production GLOCKs have more support in the chamber.

 

Based on the amount of info any conclusion is speculation.

[Shane45 807]

im thinking it was out of alignment in your press a bit and got the squeeze

[Maksim 1,504]

Maks - If it was loaded long one of two things would prevented it from firing depending on the pistol. Of course I'm referring to an in spec pistol. #1 the dsiconnector would prevent it from firing or #2 the firing pin block would prevent firing. Most out of battery firings are a combination of issues.

 

I wanted to see the primer because it would have been easily identified as a GLOCK or not. I have heard that ( and it's a big secret) current production GLOCKs have more support in the chamber.

 

Based on the amount of info any conclusion is speculation.

 

thanks for the explanation Frank. I just have a basic undestanding of guns.... all I know is how to make them go bang. =P

[Old School 611]

thanks for the explanation Frank. I just have a basic undestanding of guns.... all I know is how to make them go bang. =P

 

And I'm watching match results. Seems You're making them go bang pretty well too...

[Maksim 1,504]

And I'm watching match results. Seems You're making them go bang pretty well too...

 

awwww, I got a fan.

[Col. Mortimer 11]

im thinking it was out of alignment in your press a bit and got the squeeze

 

I don't think so. I found a couple cases with the same "smile" on the base of the case while checking my brass before loading it. I guessed it was an unsupported chamber and a hot load.

[Shane45 807]

Gotcha. Must have been quite warm!

[Ray Ray 3,566]

reloaders

 

[JonF 79]

Lol, Ray's jelly!