Pistol Blows up in Marshall County Deputy's Hand

WTRF-TV ^ | December 4, 2009 | Leigh Ann Towne

[AnAmericanMother]

There's also a good deal of variation in the hardness of the lead. Soft lead bullets would make a mess of a Glock barrel in short order.

We shoot cowboy action, and cast wheelweights are just exactly right for that application - doesn't lead the barrels badly, doesn't splatter a lot, good accuracy at that distance.

A friend of a friend runs a small tire shop out in the country and doesn't generate enough discarded wheelweights to interest the recyclers in driving out to visit him. So he saves them in five gallon plastic buckets, and our friend picks them up. He does serious black powder target rifle, and the wheelweights don't work for him. He buys his lead alloy from a custom metals supplier.

[AnAmericanMother]

I've seen that photo also.

I believe it's in Phil Sharpe's old book Complete Guide to Handloading. He had hard words for the owner too. The guy's lucky to be alive.

[AnAmericanMother]

I've never done 9mm, the idea of a tapered case makes me nervous. Of course I reload .455 Webley, you've really got to watch that one because the case mouth is so thin, you can crumple a perfectly good case if you're not careful, and cases are NOT cheap for that caliber. But once it's in you can roll crimp the heck out of it because it's a rimmed round and overall case length doesn't really matter.

Of course, I'm a perfectionist (weigh every load, weigh every bullet - except for the cowboy stuff which is pretty quick and dirty, but I do put everything in a loading block and check twice to make sure the powder is in the same level in every case. I shoot a fairly average .38 Sp load, so a double charge would be obvious. Some of the cowboy folks shoot a REALLY downloaded charge, you could get a double charge in there and not notice it. I kind of think it's cheating when the bullet just rolls out the barrel, plus of course it increases the danger of a squib.

[El Gato]

Why are our police and sheriff’s buying ammo made outside the USA?

Did you try to buy any ammo in the first few months, like around 9, of this year. Better foreign made ammo than none at all. (I bought 250 rounds of .45 in late October last year, and then have another 500 rounds on order now, and it's still back ordered 'til after Christmas.

[El Gato]

CheaperNDirt is out of stock, but Sportsman's guide Has Magtech .45 ACP 185 and 230 grain JHP +P. $17.27 per 20. They have other +P loadings as well.

[smokingfrog]

There is a video on this website.

http://www.wtov9.com/news/21866969/detail.html

Supposedly, this is a brand new gun, so there could have been some defect in manufacturing. Even though it is new, it should have been properly cleaned and lubricated before anyone used it, but perhaps it wasn’t.

I also noticed that there appeared to be some sort of sherriff department logo engraved on the slide. It’s possbile that the person that did the engraving had the slide in a vice or something, and it deformed it.

I wouldn’t think the sheriff’s dept. would buy cheap ammo, but who knows. Glock specifically says not to use realoads.