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Stop shooting that gun.
Get a casting made of the barrel chamber.
Compare the measurements of the casting to a published source.
That ammo & gun will get someone hurt.
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What he said BIG TIME!
I would have stopped with round fubar #1. Good thing you have a face intact. Brass slivers are much like broken glass.
Obviously we ALL need to know the exact make of firearm for the sake of the next person that runs across one of these guns.
This is an important safety issue that all shooters need to know about.
Is the caliber marked .380 or 9mm kurtz, 9mm corto, of some such?
All are supposed to be the exact same round by different names.
I agree that whatever is going in is NOT happening inside the chamber but upon extraction at some point.
I had an H&K USP .45 auto that I ignored warning signs on.
Blew it all to hell, 26 pcs I could find. Fortunately the gases blew down the mag well & the slide was intact but the tupperware frame went to pcs.
Got minor burns & bad bruising, couldn't shoot for 2 weeks.
It was a roll crimp die set with way too much crimp, new Rem. cases which was thinner than most cases, and a taddy too much HS-6. Data obtained from an online "personal" source that posted a dangerous load.
MY FAULT for following data not from a totally reliable source.