I had finished shooting and was waiting to get my member ship card back. Both of the guys working the counter were busy so i was checking out the rental guns. Hanging on the wall above the rentals was a Colt Anaconda .44 mag. Or what was left of it. The back strap was gone and it only had 3 cylinders. The story goes the owner was shooting reloads and had a squib load. It lodged just far enough up the barrel to allow the cylinder to rotate. The guy fired off another round. It wasn't a squib. He walked away without any injuries at all. The counter guy just smiled and said "People do some crazy things with guns".
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Hardtarget
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I reload too. That squib load thing has always scared me. I'd never be so lucky as to come away without a scratch...I'd loose a finger or an eye.
Mark.
Mark.
Flatfender
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Good thing it wasn't a "squid" load! 
It's gonna be a long weekend.
It's gonna be a long weekend.
Standing Wolf
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I charge cartridges exactly 50 at a time: never more, never fewer. Every time I've charged 50, I move the tray directly under the overhead light and look at all 50 cases. Any empty? Any that look too full? It takes about a minute to look at every batch of 50 cartridge cases.
That minute is a lot less expensive than a firearm.
That minute is a lot less expensive than a firearm.
It is then a good idea to put the rounds in the block or box bullet down; this makes a missing or incorrectly placed primer very obvious (and also prevents bullet lube from running into the powder if the ammo gets hot).
FWIW, I saw a Ruger .44 Magnum that had been blown the same way. Not a squib load, though. The owner had read an absurd gunzine article about "triplex" loads, using three kinds of powder. He did.
Jim
FWIW, I saw a Ruger .44 Magnum that had been blown the same way. Not a squib load, though. The owner had read an absurd gunzine article about "triplex" loads, using three kinds of powder. He did.
Jim
unspellable
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squibs
You don't have to forget the powder to get a squib. I had a rifle cartridge in which the primer went off fair and square but the powder didn't go. The primer drove the bullet about seven inches up the barrel so it wasn't a weak one. It's at this point you are supposed to realize it sounded funny and stop to check things out. In this case I did so.
You don't have to forget the powder to get a squib. I had a rifle cartridge in which the primer went off fair and square but the powder didn't go. The primer drove the bullet about seven inches up the barrel so it wasn't a weak one. It's at this point you are supposed to realize it sounded funny and stop to check things out. In this case I did so.
Tijeras_Slim
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One would think that the complete lack of recoil would have been a tip off that something wasn't right.
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If you are speaking of the Anaconda, yes, there are all sorts of signs that things are not right. I think it's supposed to be an example of non-thought or brain dead.
As far as my rifle goes, also true, but I didn't bother mentioning it.
When I opened the action I had loose powder all over the place.
If you are speaking of the Anaconda, yes, there are all sorts of signs that things are not right. I think it's supposed to be an example of non-thought or brain dead.
As far as my rifle goes, also true, but I didn't bother mentioning it.
When I opened the action I had loose powder all over the place.
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