I like that. Grips are not my "cup-o-tea", but that's a pretty neat unit. .357?have the Kimber k6 TLE 3" with night sights. real accurate shooter. (Picture is a stock photo)View attachment 1187022
Yes. Great trade item.Deconstruct it for components if you reload. Otherwise bury it in a wateproof tube along with some dessicant packs for "just in case."
Well don't bet on it. Double charges do pack a punch. Pistol belonged to a friend. Took two days of searching to find the bits and pieces of the cylinder. Sometimes reloading is not for everyone.A double load 38spl probably won't grenade a well built 357mag like the Kimber, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it when that primer gets popped off.
That one may have been made prior to S&W heat-treating cylinders, but ya double charges are bad ju-ju.Well don't bet on it. Double charges do pack a punch. Pistol belonged to a friend. Took two days of searching to find the bits and pieces of the cylinder. Sometimes reloading is not for everyone.
Probably not in a pistol cartridge.Shake each round, should be able to hear the powder.
Trade them to that band of marauders you don't really like all that much, but who found a stash of Jim Beam somewhere....Yes. Great trade item.
It sure was a nice old pistol. What a waste. I have one just like it, we got them both off the same table at a gun-show. I think he may have been trying to hot-rod it, (don't know that, but it would fit his personality) which didn't help. !!! I shoot light loads in mine.That one may have been made prior to S&W heat-treating cylinders, but ya double charges are bad ju-ju.
Dang, we think too much alike. Dang...I might buy a whole bunch of it, and bury it for just that purpose!!!Trade them to that band of marauders you don't really like all that much, but who found a stash of Jim Beam somewhere....
Oily fingers can deaden primers. Something I pay very close attention to also. I try never to handle or touch them, but if so make sure I wash my hands and dry them very well. Of course squibs require a good primer.I've shot a few hundred rounds of Ammo Inc ammo, with no problems, but they were 45 acp. I wonder if all these squibs came out of the same batch/lot?
I had a run of squibs some years ago, out of my own reloads. I shoot fairly slowly, so I was always able to catch it as soon as it happened. I don't know how/what happened, but I started carrying a piece of shotgun cleaning rod, and a small hammer in my range bag. I also make double sure I check the powder charge in the case before seating the bullet. Apparently it was just one batch of reloads, since I've never had the problem again. Or before for that matter.
Nope. No powder. The only thing I could come up with was, at the time I just loaded, and dropped the loaded round into a coffee can with all the others. I must have missed a group of 10 or 12 cases and never charged them, then seated a bullet. Dropping them into the can mixed them up with all the others, so they came out randomly. After that I started using a loading block to hold the charged cases, then physically checking them with a flashlight, then seating the bullet. I also don't store rounds in loose coffee cans anymore. I use slotted cartridge boxes.Did you ever figure it out? Did the powder fail to ignite? That can happen with powder that is not appropriate to the cartridge, charge weight, bullet weight, etc. etc
I can't. There's so little of it and its usually very small granules regardless of type.Probably not in a pistol cartridge.