KBs Using Factory Ammunition?

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Billy Bremner

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Has a forum member had any experience with a KB using factory ammunition? My understanding is that the primary cause is poor quality and/or non-commercially reloaded ammunition.

If so, what brand/make of firearm?

Thoughts?

Wm.
 
By Jove I believe that there's more to kb's than just ammo. Too many occur for it to always be the ammo's fault yet there are plenty of weapons that exist on sub-standard ammo like cheap Russian imports and never miss a beat.
(ie: Makarov, CZ75,etc.)

Sure reloads with stressed cases and defective factory ammo do fail but I also believe there are guns out there that fire out of battery and also weapons that have unprotected chambers at the 6:00 O'Clock position so that they will feed ammo other than 9mm.
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NOT MY AMMO.......

Know of two H&K cop-guns KB'ed using issued extreme-quality Major-manufacturer duty ammo.

Case examination suggested (to me) bullet setback; hard to tell from shrapnel.......
 
Factory KaBoooms-

Brand new Federal ammo in .40S&W, summer last at Rabbit Creek Range in Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers had a buch of bad ammo that blew at the extractor groove.
 
WESHOOT2

I honestly don't recall the bullet weight, foggy two year old memory.
The RO had called me over and showed me a fist full of blown brass an a whatcha think did this?
I heard later that an entire lot of the ammo was recalled and swapped back from the Troopies to the local dealer Northern Security that supplies the troopers. It shouldn't be all that hard to find out if ya want?
 
NO BIG DEAL

Do know that a few of the L.E. KB's were with Fed 155, but not all............just idle curiosity.............know of Kb's with every weight but 135.

So far.
 
Bullet Setback!

Studies by the National Range Officiers Institute of the United States Practical Shooting Association have shown that most KBs are the result of bullet setback. This can result from poor reloading practices (Hint: Super tight crimping AIN'T the answer!), which do not have sufficient neck tension to retain the bullet, or from cycling a factory round out of the mag and into the chamber to often.

I've experienced set back from the latter, but not the former. So, don't unload-reload the same round more than a couple of times!


Yr. Obt. Svnt.
 
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