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Maybe just a wee bit too much powder - Boom!
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Scrap Iron
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Looks like a Blackhawk. Wonder what caliber?
Scrap Iron
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Looks like 75 vintage super Blackhawk. So ample load on that one.
MainelyFree
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Same here. Let me set the scene. Working as an RSO during “public shooting”. Young guy shooting rapid-fire (No rapid-fire allowed). I’m making my way down to his firing point to remind him of the Range SOPs. I’m about 20 ft. away when Boom! The shooter was shocked and his hands were red as hell and stinging but other than that, the greatest injury was to his wallet. He kept lamenting that he just paid $1200 for the pistol.
So here’s how it went down:
New shooter shooting a new (to him) gun with a recoil impulse he was unfamiliar with.
Shooting rapid-fire.
Shooting reloads.
Had a squib load (unclear how slide was able to cycle).
Made a pipe bomb.
Pressed trigger.
Shit pants.
Oh ya…It was a Fo’tay.
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Scrap Iron
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Agree fully. I would send it back for a full refit to Ruger. Would be well worth it.
Tallahassee
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The heart wants what the heart wants...
I was shooting in a sand pit decades ago when I hear BOOK, BOOM BOOM from the next pit over. Local guy I knew had a nice S&W model 29.
He was using the plastic cartridge box to bang on the ejector rod to get the spent casings out. He told me his brother loaded them. "He scooped a case full of powder & seated the bullet on top."
I informed him that that was a strong revolver, but if he kept it up, he WOULD blow it up.
I then requested that he wait until I was back in the pit next door before he resumed.
I saw him yesterday and he still had all 10 fingers but I forgot to ask about the revolver.
He was using the plastic cartridge box to bang on the ejector rod to get the spent casings out. He told me his brother loaded them. "He scooped a case full of powder & seated the bullet on top."
I informed him that that was a strong revolver, but if he kept it up, he WOULD blow it up.
I then requested that he wait until I was back in the pit next door before he resumed.
I saw him yesterday and he still had all 10 fingers but I forgot to ask about the revolver.
MainelyFree
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Like I stated, new shooter. I’m sure the person who sold it to him told him it was a contraband Glock and extra killy.
It does look awful grainy , doesn't it ?
Wickedcoolname
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That will probably show up in the classifieds as a gently used safe queen with only fifty rounds through the barrel and one through side.
MainelyFree
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Cuz’ I’m a FUDD.
Holy shit, that looks like a gun in a cartoon when someone puts there finger at the end of the barrel.
Ruger cylinders are forged steel. The frames are investment cast.
gerrycaruso
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The Ruger is a very strong gun so I'm guessing a case full of fast pistol powder by mistake. Maybe something like Bullseye when he meant to use 296. I think you can fit about 4 charges of Bullseye in a .44 magnum case.
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Rapid fire ban??? What is considered rapid fire??? Is it "no sounding like a machine gun" or the Fudd "you should lower your pistol completely and raise it back up again as if you were shooting Bullseye"????
As far as this guy, depends. He could have double-bulletted the case as well. You'd THINK you'd notice another 250gr in the case. But maybe not.
A guy on one of the cowboy shooting magazines did that many years ago. The lead loob got gunked in his seating die and one bullet got stuck. Next case. . . . TWO BULLETS!
This a-hole did it TWICE. Admitted freely that he drank while reloading. Took a replica Colt and turned it inside out with that move.
It's hard to screw up powder THAT bad and either
A) not notice that your barely-amount of powder is now FULL IN THE CASE
B) not blow up the gun multiple times because you made a WHOLE BATCH of ammo with the wrong powder.
It can happen. But, assuming you are progressive reloading, the former case is actually easier to screw up than the latter.
lmao yeah it’s lame. But when the club has a CMP rifle match and you have 10+ people firing at once, does that “sound” differently than one person “rapid firing”?
It’s unfortunate as I shoot IDPA/USPSA and those clubs obviously don’t have “rapid fire” bans.
I’d bet my “rapid fire” would beat the accuracy of 90% of the club members shooting at a bullseye rate of fire
