Blowup/trauma

How 'bout that...
Nine year old, stolen Glock photos.




FM---maybe it's time for a family 'intervention' for this guy. That is unless you've already signed him for big bucks to the next 'Jackass' movie.
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He won't listen.
We have simply decided not to shoot with him unless he's using factory ammo; and to never shoot his firearms or ammunition.
 
A lot of believers of fake news on here.

That blown up glock picture has been floating around for a long time.

There are zero details in that "article" and not from a credible source.

THat is fake, do not believe everything you read on the internet.
 
do not believe everything you read on the internet.
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As one member's sig line (tahunua001) reminds us, no lessor a personage than Benjamin Franklin admonished us not to believe in everything you read on the interwebs. ;)
 
A lot of believers of fake news on here.

That blown up glock picture has been floating around for a long time.

There are zero details in that "article" and not from a credible source.

THat is fake, do not believe everything you read on the internet.
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Oh, wise one, how did you become so mighty?

Please teach us!


:rolleyes:
 
Two unrelated pictures someone put together.

The hand injury was actually the result of a motorcycle accident.

https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/acea/9awd3winh8aibqn6g.jpg?size_id=5

The gun picture is from another website which reports that in that incident the "shooter received severely bruised hands, with minor to moderate lacerations to his hands and face."

http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/at...his_happen_to_you_guns_should_not_blow_up.htm

This is the first place I can find where someone posted them as if they belonged together.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1783989_Glock_Hand_Grenade__warning_graphic_pics_inside.html

The OP on that thread was roundly criticized for the attempt to make up a sensational post.
 
Apparently this (minus the bogus hand injury picture) is the result of lead bullets in a Glock barrel. I don't really understand this. I've shot hardcast bullets in a polygonal barrel and saw no problem. Perhaps it is still a small problem but enough to put a risky combination over the edge. "The last straw".

I don't really understand unsupported chambers either, in a cartridge which doesn't leave much margin for error. Even among factory new ammo, brass composition is such a variable that you shouldn't expect the case to contain 30,000+ psi while unsupported to any significant degree.

It would be wise to eliminate unsupported chambers in anything but the lowest pressure rounds.

Edit: Re-reading, apparently this was not a lead bullet problem but lack of case sizing which lead to firing slightly out of battery. Not entirely sure that I accept that explanation but it may be real.
 
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Edit: Re-reading, apparently this was not a lead bullet problem but lack of case sizing which lead to firing slightly out of battery. Not entirely sure that I accept that explanation but it may be real.
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Reread it again. Apparently the whole thing is a hoax and involved a motorcycle accident, not a gun incident.
 
Even if the exploding Glock didn't blow off a finger the frame still failed and did injure the shooter.

It was the plastic that failed. In an all steel 1911 most of the blast may have exited the magwell without harming the shooter.
 
Interesting,the stories behind the photo.
I'm the OP,as I said,it just showed up on my facebook page and I don't know the details.

It might be fake.

Its still a worthwhile image to encourage careful handloading.

I do not recall which TFL member posted pictures of his own hand trauma from a loading incident,but it got my attention.

For some reason pics of blown up guns don't quite carry the message as well as a wrecked hand does.
If the hand and Glock were wrecked by different events, yeah,its just a bogus pic. Maybe he was noodling for sharks .
 
As a Range Officer at a very large Public Range I have seen my share of blown up Glocks and Government Models plus the a few revolvers and rifles. They have all been associated with reloads. Either double charges or firing a round after a misfire. Fortunately I've never seen an injury like the one post.

Just because I haven't seen it yet I can't say an explosion like that can't happen. There are STRANGE people out there that like to push the envelope.
 
HiBC I understand your thought on a visual picture. In 1972 I lost my eldest brother in a motorcycle vs. car accident. He was struck from behind while stopped at a stop sign. We had a closed casket service for him. I have never ridden a motorcycle on the hiway since and I still get nervous when one is in front of me.

I hand load and consider myself more than cautious at it. It also frightens me when I read posts of people hand loading and they state they've started at a max level or are thinking od shooting loads of unknown origin.

I have gone to the procedure that not only are my hand loads tagged with a label that describes the bullet, powder and primer but I also have each load boxed in color coded plastic boxes and each of those is also recorded in a log book.
 
Sure about that?
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I don't pretend to be sure about anything in this thread. I only know what I've read and there doesn't seem to be any real evidence about anything; certainly not enough to support an analysis that subscribes using lead bullets, over-sized cases or unsupported chambers to explain why a Glock pistol detonated (if, in fact, it really did :confused:).
 
I don't pretend to be sure about anything in this thread.
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Yeah, that is a healthy attitude. I don't know how the blogger has such insight into the incident as he says it was not at his school. But if we take his word that the ammo was reloads, a whole world of possibilities opens up. And Glocks, including the .45s, have had varying degrees of chamber support. Bad combination when coupled with questionable ammo.

I was very relieved that the hand injury does not belong to the blow up. That is horrific. Still a lot more questions than answers though.
 
The worse hand injury I've heard of related to a handgun blowup was decades ago. The person lost a finger. Two custom 1911's in a range case, one chambered in 45ACP and the other 10mm. It is believed a 10mm cartridge got stuck in the barrel of the 45ACP pistol and the 45ACP pistol was fired.
 
The internet has turned everyone into a skeptic and cynic. Not everything is photo shopped. Not everything is fake news. We need to get back to accepting things at face value.


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The damage to the hand does not match up to the damage on the gun. This cannot be matching photos, as others have already pointed out.
 
Am I the only one that loads 9,38, &45 several grains under max? Sometimes even a grain or two under minimum?

Safety first, blowing up one of my pistols...never. Equally important is my hands and other body parts.

FWIW: I don't buy this set of pictures any more than the silly one where someone was supposed to shoot his steel toe boot to see if it's bullet proof.
 
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