Has this every happened to you? A "Squib" Load

[760knox]

I have not had one of these before. I have seen videos of at shooting matches that if this does happen the official will stop you and have you check your weapon, so it doesn't go kaboom in your hands. So if this has happened to you, with what ammo and do you have any pictures?

[AK all day]

Happened to me with .357 reloads. I don't have pictures but it was with a single action revolver. It sounded a lot more like a "plooupp" than in the video. Rammed it out with a rod and kept shooting. Have to be careful. I have NEVER heard of it happening on factory ammo though.

[760knox]

Was it your own reloads?

[SacTown]

Had it happen twice with Remington UMC

[alfred1222]

It happened to a guy down the line from me once, the RO was behind him and saw that when he racked what he thought was a jam out, the shell casing was empty. Walked over, grabbed the gun and taught the guy something new

[HighLander51]

I have not had one of these before. I have seen videos of at shooting matches that if this does happen the official will stop you and have you check your weapon, so it doesn't go kaboom in your hands. So if this has happened to you, with what ammo and do you have any pictures?

First of all, the guy in the vid is an IDIOT! Why is the camera in front of the shooter? Hearing protection aside, any experienced shooter can FEEL the difference between a good round and a dud. He pulls the trigger anyway???. And a squib WILL NOT BLOW THE GUN UP, it can wreck the **** out of it, but not blow it up. This guy knows nothing about reloading or shooting.

Yes it happens, and at a sanctioned competition match, the Range Officer will stop the shooter, always a new shooter, who doesn't know the difference.... IF the new shooter listens to the STOP command, if he doesn't, and pulls the trigger, oh well.

Squibs occur because there is NO POWDER behind the bullet, only the primer. Here is a picture, an experienced competition shooter, running a borrowed gun, and it squibed. HE DID NOT PULL THE TRIGGER AGAIN!!! And this is no POS Glock or Xd, it's a high dollar 1911.

[VegasND]

Had it happen to me once, Wolf 9mm.

Firing a Mac11 FA -- the squib lodged at the end of the chamber so the next round couldn't enter the chamber fully and it kept the bolt from closing.

There was a bit of unburned powder -- we didn't know why only a part of the charge burned. The rest of the ammo (10x50 round boxes) fired without problem.

[tdyoung1958]

Have had a few with different kinds of ammo over the years. Seems I hear about it a lot more since the economy took a crap and the QA of some places doesn't seem as good.

I have never had any issues with my reloads other than a run of some bad primers I got a few years back. That sucked having to unload 500 rounds of 45ACP and do it all over again.

[AK all day]

Was it your own reloads?

Yes it was.

[joefrank64k]

I've had it happen once with a factory 9x18 (Makarov) round. It was obvious that something wasn't right (low noise/no recoil). I cleared the pistol and got the bullet out of the barrel with a cleaning rod.

[lilro]

First of all, the guy in the vid is an IDIOT! Why is the camera in front of the shooter? Hearing protection aside, any experienced shooter can FEEL the difference between a good round and a dud. He pulls the trigger anyway???. And a squib WILL NOT BLOW THE GUN UP, it can wreck the **** out of it, but not blow it up. This guy knows nothing about reloading or shooting.

LOL. The guy is old and probably still goes by the old tap, rack, bang training rather than tap, rack, assess. He owns an FFL and has PLENTY of videos that show he has at least some experience with shooting AND reloading. And he didn't pull the trigger a second time. He was luckily stopped. A squib can cause a kaboom if you try to fire again behind the lodged bullet.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Iraqveteran8888/videos

[ERdept]

Never a squib, but many dud rounds from .22.

[TNP'R]

First of all, the guy in the vid is an IDIOT! Why is the camera in front of the shooter? Hearing protection aside, any experienced shooter can FEEL the difference between a good round and a dud. He pulls the trigger anyway???. And a squib WILL NOT BLOW THE GUN UP, it can wreck the **** out of it, but not blow it up. This guy knows nothing about reloading or shooting.

Yes it happens, and at a sanctioned competition match, the Range Officer will stop the shooter, always a new shooter, who doesn't know the difference.... IF the new shooter listens to the STOP command, if he doesn't, and pulls the trigger, oh well.

Squibs occur because there is NO POWDER behind the bullet, only the primer. Here is a picture, an experienced competition shooter, running a borrowed gun, and it squibed. HE DID NOT PULL THE TRIGGER AGAIN!!!And this is no POS Glock or Xd, it's a high dollar 1911.

I didnt know glocks and XD's were POS

[skosh69]

Sadly, yes I'm guilty of a squib! Happened on my first batch of reloads. I know how and why it happened and it's never happened or will happen again!

[SocomM4]

There was a scary kaboom video, where the ar15 blew up from a bad primer. The guy shoots, then click, taps and racks then immediately try's to fire. But when he racks it you can clearly see a case come out and powder flying out. Bad primer, nothing popped, but left the bullet behind in the barrel. When he pulled the trigger the whole top of the gun blew off. Tried saying it was S&W fault till he got reamed by commenters and later removed the vid.