Posted: 4/25/2013 10:14:32 PM EDT
A friend had just got his S&W 28 back from a gun smith so we wanted to try it out. He was low on ammo so I brought along a box of old Western 38 special wad-cutters. I got them with a gun a few years back along with several other boxes of ammo, most manufactured around the 70's. I have fired around 400 rounds of this ammo and have never had a problem. While trying out my friends model 28 I had a primer fail to ignite. I looked at the round that failed and verified it had a good primer strike, so I tried it one more time. The primer ignited and then all we heard was the sound of gas escaping. I stood there a second making sure it was a squib and not something else. I cleared the revolver and handed back to my friend to inspect with his flashlight. He looked down the barrel and said, "yep there is definitely no light coming through". After a few laughs and a minutes work we got the bullet out and were back to shooting. Glad I was paying attentions and didn't destroy my buddies revolver. 
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Probably wouldn't have blown it up. More than likely bulged the barrel.
Good call on stopping and checking the barrel. I had a round like the one you described last year in 45 Colt. I actually saw the bullet leave the barrel and go 2 to 3 feet and fall to the ground. |
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I have seen a gun range rental gun have a squib. S&W 29, firing light handloads. The shooters asks me to come look at it. The cylender was locked up. Took it into the back and found not one, but five bullets in the barrel. The last one was actually still in the cylender. They fired the squib, then fired four more rounds on top of it. I can only imagine what the fireball out of the forcing cone looked like.
After I cleared the barrel, I could not find anything wrong with the pistol. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |