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Hooboy - how many of us spend a day at the range with ball ammunition and then jammed a mag of the considerably more expensive stuff in it after a cleaning? I didn't realize I was doing this until I happened to have a little ramping problem one time that marked the case and I noticed a case with three or four marks on it.

One answer is to practice with your self-defense ammo, recycling it frequently. I was too cheap to do it, frankly. Considering the alternative might be chasing my slide downrange, well, I'm thinking a reconsideration might be in order.

Hooboy - how many of us spend a day at the range with ball ammunition and then jammed a mag of the considerably more expensive stuff in it after a cleaning?

I know I do. I also tend to leave it stored with the magazine in but no round in the chamber, and chamber a round whenever I take it with me. I wonder if he was chambering the round by charging it by hand, or if he was thumbing the slide release and letting it slam forward that way. I suspect it'd make a difference. Still, I'm inspecting and rotating the Hydra-shocks I keep in my Glock 21.

Also, if he really was using a hot load, well, it could have been anything that caused the explosion. Factory Glock barrels have oversized chambers (I imagine to prevent jamming in field conditions when the pistol is less than perfectly clean), and that means less than ideal case support, which is why firing reloads out of a Glock is not recommended by the company voids the warranty.