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Had my first squib today.
The best estimate is, I've loaded and shot something a bit north of 50,000 rounds and this is my first mishap. I'll tell the story, to tell on myself, and to be a warning to others.
Shooting my Glock 23, at an indoor range, I pulled the trigger and NOTHING, but a click. I was proud of the fact that there was no perceivable movement of the pistol (no flinch) but thought wow, that's odd, must have had my first dud.
Pulled the slide back and a empty case came out, at which point it's obvious I was brain dead. (my wife and I have been shooting some cheap .22LR ammo lately that occasionally short cycles, cocks the pistol, but puts the empty case back in the chamber, so I think my brain thought the same thing had happened with my Glock) So, I go to chamber a fresh round, and the slide won't close......
So, I lock the slide back, place my thumb in the ejection port to look down the barrel (and hope my wife isn't looking, as that correctly makes her nervous) and can't see my thumb, seems odd, it is kind of poorly lighted right where I'm at, so I find a fired .22 shell laying on the floor and drop it in the muzzle and it won't fall though......Yup, I've got squib stuck in the barrel.
In all my years of reloading (about 45 years) I've never had anything like this happen, so it wasn't the first thing I thought of......luckily the bullet was lodged in such a way that I couldn't chamber the next round.....
The round was loaded on a Hornady Lock-n-Load progressive loader, with shaking the gun around at the range, I'm unable to determine if it was a lack of powder or a bad primer. There was some residue at the base of the bullet, that I initially thought was powder residue, but it could just be burnt residue from the primer, Like I said the powder would have been mostly dumped out at the range, before I got a chance to do a complete CSI at home.
PAY ATTENTION!! Luckily I'm only embarrassed, it could have been much worse
The best estimate is, I've loaded and shot something a bit north of 50,000 rounds and this is my first mishap. I'll tell the story, to tell on myself, and to be a warning to others.
Shooting my Glock 23, at an indoor range, I pulled the trigger and NOTHING, but a click. I was proud of the fact that there was no perceivable movement of the pistol (no flinch) but thought wow, that's odd, must have had my first dud.
Pulled the slide back and a empty case came out, at which point it's obvious I was brain dead. (my wife and I have been shooting some cheap .22LR ammo lately that occasionally short cycles, cocks the pistol, but puts the empty case back in the chamber, so I think my brain thought the same thing had happened with my Glock) So, I go to chamber a fresh round, and the slide won't close......
So, I lock the slide back, place my thumb in the ejection port to look down the barrel (and hope my wife isn't looking, as that correctly makes her nervous) and can't see my thumb, seems odd, it is kind of poorly lighted right where I'm at, so I find a fired .22 shell laying on the floor and drop it in the muzzle and it won't fall though......Yup, I've got squib stuck in the barrel.
In all my years of reloading (about 45 years) I've never had anything like this happen, so it wasn't the first thing I thought of......luckily the bullet was lodged in such a way that I couldn't chamber the next round.....
The round was loaded on a Hornady Lock-n-Load progressive loader, with shaking the gun around at the range, I'm unable to determine if it was a lack of powder or a bad primer. There was some residue at the base of the bullet, that I initially thought was powder residue, but it could just be burnt residue from the primer, Like I said the powder would have been mostly dumped out at the range, before I got a chance to do a complete CSI at home.
PAY ATTENTION!! Luckily I'm only embarrassed, it could have been much worse
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