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Old 03-05-2007, 22:30   #24
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Originally Posted by Karl.Masters
Good call SS. Here's a link to pictures of the accident at "The Gun Zone":

http://www.thegunzone.com/glock/setback.html#nb2

From the link:

"Subsequent preliminary PTLA review indicated that a possible combination of excessive pressure and a bore obstruction contributed to the explosion."

Looks like there is more to this than OAL/setback.

Karl
So it sounds like a squib round?

Also there is a comment about about a bullet being left in the gun. Was that a bullet, or a cartridge? I am not a expert on barrel eruptions, the ones that I have seen with "plug" or obstructed barrels looked like the one in the picture, or had a bad bulge before the obstruction.

This is almost as bad as the story I heard a long time ago, of a re-loader using bullseye in a 30-06 round. Some failures are not the gun's fault.
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