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To: Sam_Damon
The feed ramp on a .40 Glock is oversized so the case is not fully supported. Because the .40 S&W is a high pressure round, brass weakened by repeated reloading will sometimes result in a catastrophic head separation. That shouldn't happen with the lower pressure .45 ACP, but I'm not familiar with the .45 GAP -- if that was the caliber.

I shoot a Springfield XDM myself.

29 posted on 12/18/2009 7:46:51 AM PST by old3030 (I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look.)
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To: old3030
The feed ramp on a .40 Glock is oversized so the case is not fully supported. Because the .40 S&W is a high pressure round, brass weakened by repeated reloading will sometimes result in a catastrophic head separation.

I had been given a few thousand .40 once-fired cases by a police sgt. friend when I discovered this phenomenon for the first time. What a shame. Most of the cases wouldn't size correctly without a roll-press (which I don't have).

I bet an overcharged .45 round would find the unsupported base and easy place to breach.

70 posted on 12/18/2009 9:05:13 AM PST by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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