bugsbunny45
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In a tread about range bags a lotta people seem to keep Squib rods to deal with them. In all my years of shooting I must have been lucky so far. I have yet to have a squib. If you had one was it from a reload or factory ammo?
I walked away from one of those as well, but it wasnt a squib that caused it. Gun was firing out of battery. Gun held together for the most part, but was trash. Have a nice "L" shaped scar on my right hand from the op rod handle, and my right ear has a constant ring in it.When I was in the Army I saw a kid out
on the range blow a nice new M-1 to pieces. Fortunately
he wasn't hurt.
.reloads using 300mp powder and listed loads from my Hornady reloading manual that ended up being far too low
Just had a round jump a crimp in my S&W model 28 this past week end. Gun was DRT until I got my trusty hammer and rod out and knocked it back into the case so it could clear the forcing cone. So much for revolver superiority!
The autos dont normally have that issue, and would normally fire in that instance, the revolvers lock up, leaving you with a dead gun.What makes you think a semi auto would be any less disabled? If it happened in a gun fight they are both pretty much clubs or no better than throwing rocks. At least the revolver locked up preventing a potential "kaboom!
Another downside to the revolvers. They will usually let you keep at it.I make it a habit not to rapid fire to fast, must allow my brain time to catch these kinds of things.