I couldn't really find a perfect answer by searching so I'm starting a new thread about the specifics.
had a case blowout I don't have all the information to share just yet, but here are some of the facts. Pin strike was dead center and nothing offhand seemed unusual about the primer. Putting the case back in chamber, it's really hard to tell what happened. The thing will go completely into battery, but it seemed to have slid out a bit between igniting and blow out. The tear started exactly at the junction of the taper and flat edge. The case didn't eject. I didn't locate a case I could identify as the previous round. The barrel was spotless.
Nothing at all seemed unusual, some sound, and other than the solid "WHOMP!" Nothing felt unusual.I have smoke stains all over every source of possible leakage on my hands.
So the point is that this thing almost certainly was in battery when it blew out at the web of the case. I know absolutely that it wasn't the round at fault. Not a chance that it was overcharged. It was 115 grain factory lead bullet. Mid range charge. In spec all the way. I have run thousands of these rounds through another pistol, and hundreds through this glock.
So I keep coming back to the same circle. No obvious failures in equipment or ammo, was it the brass? Plain federal, nothing unusual, only a few loads, I guess.
Am I missing something? Is this just a case of the brass owing out from metal failure or other cause? Is this what a person would expect to happen with a very small overcharge of aa9, a moderately fast powder?
This is my first failure of ammo like this.
The last question is whether or not to have it checked by a gunsmith now
had a case blowout I don't have all the information to share just yet, but here are some of the facts. Pin strike was dead center and nothing offhand seemed unusual about the primer. Putting the case back in chamber, it's really hard to tell what happened. The thing will go completely into battery, but it seemed to have slid out a bit between igniting and blow out. The tear started exactly at the junction of the taper and flat edge. The case didn't eject. I didn't locate a case I could identify as the previous round. The barrel was spotless.
Nothing at all seemed unusual, some sound, and other than the solid "WHOMP!" Nothing felt unusual.I have smoke stains all over every source of possible leakage on my hands.
So the point is that this thing almost certainly was in battery when it blew out at the web of the case. I know absolutely that it wasn't the round at fault. Not a chance that it was overcharged. It was 115 grain factory lead bullet. Mid range charge. In spec all the way. I have run thousands of these rounds through another pistol, and hundreds through this glock.
So I keep coming back to the same circle. No obvious failures in equipment or ammo, was it the brass? Plain federal, nothing unusual, only a few loads, I guess.
Am I missing something? Is this just a case of the brass owing out from metal failure or other cause? Is this what a person would expect to happen with a very small overcharge of aa9, a moderately fast powder?
This is my first failure of ammo like this.
The last question is whether or not to have it checked by a gunsmith now