I’m generally not in the habit of reposting other gun blogs’ content. Not because I’m against it necessarily, it’s just not what we do here. Anyway I thought this story of a Ruger LCP blowing up from RomeoTangoBravo.net was too good to pass up. My homeboy Caleb over there has the scoop on how THIS Ruger LCP was absolutely obliterated by a squib load…
Photo found at RomeoTangoBravo.net
This is pretty impressive to see first hand. Most guns won’t respond well to chambering and firing another round with a bullet still halfway down the barrel, but I was surprised to see this LCP basically come apart at the seams.
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Any time you fire a gun with a fowled barrel you’re in for some trouble . When that ‘fowling’ is a bullet of the proper size … you’re in for BIG TROUBLE ! Mud , dirt , snow or whatever can cause trouble but (may) be survived by gun and shooter . A tight , solid , heavy mass creates a whole different situation . . .
Exactly. It’s amazing the pressures produced even from such a little round like the .380 auto. Really a great reminder of how dangerous our guns can be and how aware we need to be when handling them.
That could have easily ended up MUCH worse. I am glad the shooter is OK. Squibs are no joke. When I was rolling my own I always tried to pay attention and make sure each round was fired slowly enough to be sure the bullet was leaving the barrel and hitting the target. I nearly became obsessed with doing that and it took away from the joy of shooting. And those were loads I loaded myself! One should probably be even more cautious with factory loads!
Only ever happened to me once in many thousands of rounds. One round went Phut! not Bang! in a double-action rapid fire contest, and I had pulled the trigger on the next round before I knew what I had done. Gun was a Ruger Security Six. Lightly bulged the barrel but it didn’t let go. All of us on the firing line were lucky, particularly me.
GREAT thoughts, Nigel thank you for sharing! It is a VERY scary time when things like this happen. You and your friends were very fortunate to avoid injury.