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HiPoint .40S&W Carbine Kaboom

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I have seen a lot of 9mm fired in a .40 accidentally and have seen it done on purpose a time or two. The cases never looked like that. The mouth was always flared out wide, but they never came apart at the rear or cracked anywhere.
 
Thankfully no hi point bashing yet.

Glad your OK. I had a 995 a while back and always thought that the bolt on steel reciever cap would be great for protecting the operator in the event of a failure. If you can show us a picture of the gun I would like to see the damage done and confirm my suspicions.
 
The gun is boxed up right now. Just imagine your 995 with the bolt stuck back and open, with the firing pin stuck way out (pin itself almost looks like it's at a strange angle). As you recall the chamber is indeed well housed and taking a picture is impossible with my camera. Not enough light inside for macro mode.
 
I dont know why the bolt is stuck back, but the firing pin putruding way out is normal. The pin functions as the ejector as well. It made me weary of ejecting a live cartridge when I had a 995.
 
When returning any gun to the factory, never modify or change it except to do the minimum necessary to make it safe and remove ammunition.

Jim
 
HP/Beemiller is called Mom because they take care of you like your mother would.
I have a (highly modified) C9 in my stable and it's great!

Guy on another forum did a trigger job on his C9 and failed to keep angles at 90 degrees.
He called up HP, told them he blew it with mods and ask how much to get replacement parts.
They wouldn't hear of it and sent him new parts for free! That's how you mom would treat you! :)
 
That sure does look like an out of battery ignition. Like maybe double the extractor grooves width out of battery leaving an unsupported case head which ruptured dumping high temperature, high pressure gas into the action, likely damaging other internal pieces.
 
Got my carbine back with an extra magazine for my trouble. They seriously replaced and redid over 14 parts. Looks like they did a fine job, and fired a mess of ammo through it. I won't list all the new parts but most all bolt and firing assembly parts, and all the springs in the gun.

Noted:

Headspace - "Readjusted (set deeper)"
Chamber - "burr in chamber"

Trigger - "Shortened disconnect"

Hopefully I can make it to the range this weekend.
 
Noted:

Headspace - "Readjusted (set deeper)"
Chamber - "burr in chamber"
Trigger - "Shortened disconnect"
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Looking at the first empty casing and I think I can see where it may have been caught up in that burr in chamber. Maybe it peeled the burr back even more, just enough to make round two not fully chamber and it went off not fully inside the chamber over the magazine some.
I circled the area that I see on the image you had and I copied.
 
Good eye. I just figured that was collateral or damage on ejection.

I never could get a good full view of the chamber (like a barrel in hand) - well maybe apparently the factory didn't either.
 
Made it to the rainy range today. Wow, this thing is REALLY fun to shoot. It ate all my ammo up. No problem with any 165gr or 180gr ammo. It was shooting a little low, needed to adjust the sights. Down to one 250 round box of Washougal River Cartridge Company 180 gr reloads.
 
You mentioned 15 rd Promags earlier; I have two that work fine in my 995 despite several negative reports on them by others.
 
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