Howdy all,
I was out at the range last weekend and a funny thing happened. I was shooting my (fairly new, ~400 rnds or so) M29 10mm and all of the sudden I felt unburned powder/crud hit my face. I stopped shooting and looked at the weapon. Looked good. I put it down and noticed what looked like minor powder burns on my hands wherever there was a gap in the gun (eg. the slide-to-frame junction): along the inside of my weak-hand thumb (I use a thumb-forward grip), on the 'top' of my tigger finger, and on both palms where they wrap around the magazine/mag well at the base for the grip. I do not remember any particular differences in recoil or sound for that round...not that there wasn't something strange, I just can't say for sure. Nothing dramatic anyway.
A little water took off all the black gunk except along the inside of my weak-hand thumb (which was laying at the slide-frame junction on the left side of the gun, right underneath the caliber markings on the slide). There, the unburned powder was actually embedded slightly in my skin.
After a closer inspection of the gun, it appears to be in great shape...no noticable anything as far as I can see, looks just like normal.
I have a call in to Glock to talk with someone there and get an idea of what might have happened. What do you folks think? Out-of-battery detonation is my guess. What's the consensus? Gun problem? Freak happening? Ammo? I'm not planning on taking it out again until I get a better idea of what went down. Not that we are necessarily going to figure it out here, but I'd like to hear some ideas or similar experiences, if any.
BTW, I was shooting Georgia-Arms 180gr 10mm rated at ~1100fps. I had already put, maybe, ~150 rounds of this ammo through the gun that day before the incident. I have shot several cases of GA ammo overall (although not in this gun, and not in 10mm), and have found it to be excellent, consistent and very well-manufactured.
- gabe
PS: Just another example: WEAR YOUR EYE PROTECTION! If I hadn't had my glasses on, I'd have had that hot powder on my corneas and not just my cheeks.
I was out at the range last weekend and a funny thing happened. I was shooting my (fairly new, ~400 rnds or so) M29 10mm and all of the sudden I felt unburned powder/crud hit my face. I stopped shooting and looked at the weapon. Looked good. I put it down and noticed what looked like minor powder burns on my hands wherever there was a gap in the gun (eg. the slide-to-frame junction): along the inside of my weak-hand thumb (I use a thumb-forward grip), on the 'top' of my tigger finger, and on both palms where they wrap around the magazine/mag well at the base for the grip. I do not remember any particular differences in recoil or sound for that round...not that there wasn't something strange, I just can't say for sure. Nothing dramatic anyway.
A little water took off all the black gunk except along the inside of my weak-hand thumb (which was laying at the slide-frame junction on the left side of the gun, right underneath the caliber markings on the slide). There, the unburned powder was actually embedded slightly in my skin.
After a closer inspection of the gun, it appears to be in great shape...no noticable anything as far as I can see, looks just like normal.
I have a call in to Glock to talk with someone there and get an idea of what might have happened. What do you folks think? Out-of-battery detonation is my guess. What's the consensus? Gun problem? Freak happening? Ammo? I'm not planning on taking it out again until I get a better idea of what went down. Not that we are necessarily going to figure it out here, but I'd like to hear some ideas or similar experiences, if any.
BTW, I was shooting Georgia-Arms 180gr 10mm rated at ~1100fps. I had already put, maybe, ~150 rounds of this ammo through the gun that day before the incident. I have shot several cases of GA ammo overall (although not in this gun, and not in 10mm), and have found it to be excellent, consistent and very well-manufactured.
- gabe
PS: Just another example: WEAR YOUR EYE PROTECTION! If I hadn't had my glasses on, I'd have had that hot powder on my corneas and not just my cheeks.