A telling picture and story --> Choose your ammo carefully!

Well, as I don't handload myself, you guys are more knowledgeable in this department than me :-)

According to the caption, the story was submitted by someone named "Jack Foster". If we can locate him, we can get to the truth of this story as to whether Chinese ammo was involved or not. But I suspect, yeah, it might be fabricated to hide the embarrassment of a faulty handload.
 
I'm not even sure if Chinese ammo can be imported. I thought Norinco screwed that up.
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You are correct. It was banned during the Clinton years due to using steel core slugs.

It's states some wheres in United States Code Title 18922
 
Well what ever it was it definately destroyed a good gun. There is a member on this forum that posted pics of his mod 629 S&W that blew up due to an undetected squib.
It is hard for me to tell if that was done by a squib, or else a double charge.
 
Yipes

Shooters:

I load my own 44 mag ammo, cause it is so much cheaper to reload a good hunting round with a hollow point than to buy it off the shelf. But I never try for a "hot" load. I stick with the formulas in the book. Even then, when I shot my first few hand load I had the gun clamped in a gun vise and was pulling the trigger from about ten feet away with a cord.

And there is cheap ammo out there. I had a very poor experience shooting Centurion (made in Italy) 410 ammo out of my Judge. It expanded so much that the cylinder wouldn't turn and there were pin holes in the primer after the shot.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
I hope the shooter got checked for radiation poisoning. It was probably caused by the tiny little A-bombs that the Chinese are putting in everything they import to us!!!
Hey, that's as plausible as the Chinese ammo BS!!!
 
 
Go back and take a look at the first two pictures again very carefully. As I look at those pictures I see where there may have been a misalignment between the forcing cone (rearmost part of the barrel) and the top cylinder. Doesn't it kind of look like the top cylinder's front is dropped down a bit? So it could be that when the shooter fired the gun the bullet went slightly forward and wedged against the bottom of the forcing cone? That then meant that the bullet became the obstruction that caused the blast to radiate left and right towards the other two cylinders on the side. I'm guessing that the cylinder had not been put back into place and properly tightened down after somebody cleaned his handgun. So this may not actually be bad ammo after all. We'll never know for sure either way by now because that gun has probably been melted down into scrap. We also have to keep in mind that the drop at the front of the cylinder could have also been caused by the blast too so there is no way to now be 100% sure of what happened. I do find that dropping of the front of the cylinder to be interesting though.
 
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