Sunday, October 13, 2013

Ammo blues #1...

Failure to extract with Fiocchi plated 125gr .357 SIG caused this round to get slammed into the still-chambered spent case, setting the bullet back into the case by a rather... noticeable amount.
Posted by @
Labels: ,

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

That would be the new Fiocchi round for compact carry pistols?

9:52 AM, October 13, 2013
Caleb said...

Sweet grenade.

10:22 AM, October 13, 2013
Joseph said...

Hey, it's the new improved Nagant pistol round!!!

10:40 AM, October 13, 2013
Anonymous said...

Or the new .357 Sig HBWCJSP target load

10:43 AM, October 13, 2013
Anonymous said...

Oops, my bad, HBWCFMJ Target load

10:47 AM, October 13, 2013
Roberta X said...

The exploding target load -- which would be a real setback!

10:48 AM, October 13, 2013
Weer'd Beard said...

A bottleneck round has its advantages...and disadvantages when you only have a short neck to crimp!

11:20 AM, October 13, 2013
Ygolonac said...

.357 SIG Kurz

12:33 PM, October 13, 2013
Anonymous said...

That can also happen to pistol calibers in a tube fed lever action if the crimp is weak, especialy with plated bullets that have no cannelure.

The difference from that .357 Sig pictured is that one of those could actually be chambered with potentially disastrous results.

5:20 PM, October 13, 2013
perlhaqr said...

Yeah... I'm gonna have to recommend you don't shoot that one. ;)

6:07 PM, October 13, 2013
Roberta X said...

Aw, drop it in a drilled hole in a steel plate and shoot the prime with a .22 for a good long ways away!

Scribble, scribble... "How Did Accident Occur..." Scribble, scribble.

(WV: "Festioa 98," which I believe had a booth in the midway where you could do that, only with a pellet gun and water balloons. 'Cos they got tough gun laws down that way.)

7:14 PM, October 13, 2013
Buzz said...

Tam, what .357SIG guns would you recommend?

7:33 PM, October 13, 2013
Matthew Carberry said...

That'll hammer out. A couple whacks in a kinetic puller and that bad boy is good to go.

8:25 PM, October 13, 2013
Will said...

The new .40 SABOT round?

9:10 PM, October 13, 2013
rickn8or said...

OTOH, you know the recoil spring is in great shape.

10:35 PM, October 13, 2013
The Old Coach said...

Hmmm. Never seen that with my S&W revolvers.

1:26 AM, October 14, 2013
Anonymous said...

Silly question......where did the powder behind the actual bullet go?

Kaeghl

6:04 AM, October 14, 2013
Anonymous said...

>Silly question......where did the powder behind the actual bullet go?

I assume they used a really fast powder, making the volume of powder in the round rather small.

This can be a really inexpensive way to reload, as powder is priced by the pound, not by the joule, but it sets you up to where you could easily load a double or triple charge and not notice things. With a lot of empty head space in the case, I've also heard that the powder position in the case can cause variances.

Statically, factory ammo has a better record than your average reload, so you gotta assume the factory has better quality control. You could detect a double charge, for example, by weighing the entire round after assembly.

-SM

9:18 AM, October 14, 2013
Anonymous said...

"I assume they used a really fast powder, making the volume of powder in the round rather small.

This can be a really inexpensive way to reload".......

.....until you figure in the cost of the wrecked guns: it takes a whole lotta cheap reloads to add up to the price of a gun.

,

3:18 PM, October 14, 2013
Matt G said...

I was standing about three feet to your right when you took that. The problem lies in improperly-crimped reloads. One of the guys there had actually pinched a bullet into the case with his fingers. That's not the caliber's fault.
I would guess that the fail to extract was the gun's fault, but perhaps the case got shoehorned in because of poor case sizing.

11:49 PM, October 14, 2013
Tam said...

Matt G,

"I was standing about three feet to your right when you took that. The problem lies in improperly-crimped reloads."

The round in that picture is a factory new Fiocchi 125gr FMJ.

The reloads you are talking about were nickel cases and Golden Saber bullets.

12:09 AM, October 15, 2013
Steve said...

"Statically, factory ammo has a better record than your average reload, so you gotta assume the factory has better quality control. You could detect a double charge, for example, by weighing the entire round after assembly."

1) I think you meant "Statistically".
2) My reloads are better than factory. I've never loaded a primer in backwards. I found a factory round in that condition in the middle of a Bullseye competition.

3) Between the weight variances of the cases and the bullets, and the small amounts of powder used in pistol rounds, weighing your finished ammo for double or triple charges is not very reliable. I prefer using a mirror and a bright light when using a progressive press, or just the bright light when using a single-stage press and a loading block.

7:29 PM, October 16, 2013

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)