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11-23-2009, 09:22 PM
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The XDm that went *BOOM*
I saw this on another board I frequent:
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11-23-2009, 09:23 PM
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11-23-2009, 09:27 PM
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Dang....
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11-23-2009, 09:31 PM
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I want more details. Was he using reloads? Possibly a double charge? Primer seated high in the pocket resulting in a slam fire before the case was seated?
I love my XD and XDm :)
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11-23-2009, 09:40 PM
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Looks like reloaded .40 cal. It appears the bolt/breech face was not all the way forward leaving the case unsupported.
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11-23-2009, 09:47 PM
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Not interested in experiencing this first hand
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11-23-2009, 10:31 PM
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Bet he needed to change his shorts after that.... I know I would!
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11-23-2009, 10:31 PM
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11-23-2009, 10:38 PM
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That damn sure did fire out of battery. Good to hear the shooter is OK.
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11-23-2009, 10:56 PM
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They can send it off to SA, they'll fix it, but looks to be ammo related, so they'll prob charge for new frame and re-serial. Unless it was a doublecharge or the like the xd shouldn't do that if it was fired in battery. Could have been a miss-seated primer that went off when it stripped the round from the clip, almost would have to be.
One of the technical reasons I like the xd's over some of the other poly guns is the more fully enclosed chamber, they're supposed to help lessen the chance of something like that. Glad the shooter was ok, he must have been one-handing that one when it went off. Pics like that make you take a magnifying glass out the next time you clean a gun of the same make/model. A good digital scale is insurance for reloading, I like to take a few minutes and weigh cases after cleaning & depriming, and then after loading as well. You can pick up one that is +/- .100th of a grain for $30 shipped off ebay (escali is is brand I'm using right now). For about $100 you can get one that will count as well, which is an easy way to bulk check say 50 bullets at a time, use your reloading block as the tare weight, then load up 50, weigh, if it's off then check out individual rounds, if it's not, then you're good to go. You'll have to pick out your own safe variance for loading, on .40 which is what I'm mainly loading right now I let .10g on singles go as I'm usually not loading anywhere near what would be considered a hot load.
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11-24-2009, 07:07 AM
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I had the same thing happen to me with a 1911 recently. Weak casing on a reload. Blew the grips off the frame and ejected the magazine which bounced off the table and hit me in the chin. I dug a bullet fragment (next round in the magazine) out of my cheek two weeks later when it moved closer to the surface. I was fine other than that and the gun was back in operation once we ordered a new magazine.
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11-24-2009, 07:57 AM
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Come on guys....that should buff right out.
Seriously, I know I would be counting my fingers for the next week after something like that.
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11-24-2009, 08:07 AM
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Traced it to a couple of cheap chicom boxes of 9mm once fired brass. The only head stamp was 3 stars. Took me a week to go through my stash & cull that junk. NOT a fun day
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11-24-2009, 11:34 AM
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Glad the fella is ok. Just goes to show that can happen with any gun.
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11-24-2009, 02:37 PM
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11-24-2009, 02:52 PM
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Looks like a job for Super Glue & Mighty Putty!
The shooter should have bought a few lotto tickets that day. <><Fish
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11-24-2009, 03:18 PM
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In a nutshell, the gun went bang before the slide was all of the way forward, so not all of the energy was focused on a) propelling the bullet out of the barrel and b) pushing the slide backwards. The exploding charge went "freedom!" and found that the path of least resistance was elsewhere. Which was bad on the good/bad scale. Last edited by weargle; 11-24-2009 at 03:20 PM.
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12-07-2009, 10:04 PM
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Wow! I was saving money by shooting a friends reloads. Not anymore! That is horrifying, I can't imagine the heartrate of that poor guy when he realized what had happened. Thank God he is safe.
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12-07-2009, 11:28 PM
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It's seldom fun when something blows up near you.
It's never fun when something blows up in your hand.
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