Ever Use A Friend's/Stranger's Reloads?

[ZipperZap]

Have you ever used/had a problem with somebody else's reloads?

I was shooting with a few Border Patrol friends the other day after their qualifying shoot.

My son works at - what I think is the best - a San Diego Indoor range [ San Diego American Shooting Center ]. While we were shooting some of the off duty 1911's, one of the fellas gave another a handfull of his reloads. Within a minute or so, a Kimber flew out of the hand of it's owner. Seems like one of the reloads released the 'Magic Genie of BLAM'!

Chainfired a round in the magazine doing some undertermined damage to it, as well, and cracked the (expensive) grips.

The Kimber owner swore, "Never again!"

Sorry for the bad photos - I had to use my cellphone camera.

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[Fjold]

A classic double charge of fast powder. It ignites the next round down in the magazine, blows the magazine out of the pistol, cracks the grips and makes a lot of smoke. Sometimes it gives you the red burn lines on your palm from the hot gasses.

[Pokey]

Only VERY trusted friends and even then very rarely. Your pictures are why.

[blkA4alb]

Glad no one was seriously hurt. Is the gun fixable?

[bu-bye]

+1 on only trusted firends ammo and even then I don't use their pistol reloads. Its easy to double charge a pistol rounds esp a 45acp case. You can't really double charge most rifle rounds. Another reason I use a single stage press.

[gose]

Only from a very few select friends that I trust.

[scott.cr]

Once in a while I'll rent a handgun from my usual indoor range (Insight in Artesia), and their rules are that you have to shoot their ammo in the rentals.

Last time out I rented a .44 Mag and they didn't have any factory ammo available, only reloads, which I bought and used.

After getting more than a few fireballs out of the muzzle, one round squibbed, leaving the bullet sticking out of the muzzle. I was able to remove the bullet myself, because it was barely in there, and when I emptied the shells from the cylinder I saw that one of the .44 cases had an empty .22LR shell in it!

I checked the shells and all of them were bulged around the case head. (It was my first time shooting a .44 Mag in a few years so I was thinking the fireballs were normal.) Needless to say, I won't be touching their reloads with a stolen arm.

[BigMac]

Hmm

I always use a powder that will not permit a double charge. Powder overflowing is a good indication of a problem.

[Tom G]

You have to pay attention. Just like driving, just like shooting, just like taking medication. Reloading is fantastic, I use a Dillon 550. It works like a charm. I load 45ACP and 357 magnum. I am able to tailor my loads to particular firearms that I shoot. You definitely need to respect what you are doing, and not use ammo that you don't know who or what the source is. If some stranger handed you a pill and said take this, would you? My friends and I went to Burro Canyon on Saturday and shot several hundred rounds of my hand loads (45ACP: 200gr SWC, 6.0gr Bullseye, win brass, Fed 150 primers/357: 158gr FP, 10.7gr Blue Dot, Starline brass, Win WSPM) . My S&W 627 and my Wilson CQB love those things, and very accurate. I load a minimum of 2000 rounds a month. I have loaded thousands upon thousands of rounds, never a problem. I suggest you know your source intimately. When I load, I focus, no distractions. I love it. My hand loads are far superior to any of the range ammo that most people shoot. Sorry for being long winded but I am passionate about loading.

[PistolKidd]

No, I generally dont shoot ammo that is reloaded unless i completely trust the source..

Btw.. whats your sons name? Maybe I've seen him around at ASC?