This ever happened to anyone???

[KDUBCR250]

Never had a handgun do it but did have a Mauser blow up on me posted some pics here . Scared the crap out of me some power burns to the arm,hand and alittle bloody face just glad I had my glasses on .

 

[sparky241]

i think this was a g22. the older ones had a problem that the chamber wasnt fully supported and they would fatigue easy and kaboom or it could have been a dbl charged round

 

[Mike Elzinga]

I thought all this crazyness had been put to rest.

Yes, there have been some Glocks, most commonly in .40 that have blown up. The reason that it is almost exclusive to .40s is that the barrels are unsupported. That fact coupled with most .40 loadings being high on the pressure scale, somethings gotta give. This is not to say that Glocks are prone to blowing up. I have seen multiple Glocks and a number of other makes and models go kaboom. I have known 4 people that blew Glocks up and everyone was totally unhurt.

Poor ammunition is often the culprit as previously stated. Shooting lead bullets in a Glock will NOT blow it up. I have shot tens of thousands of lead bullets and reloads through Glocks, both clean and filthy dirty and that is not what hurts them. Lead fouling in the barrel can cause accuracy problems, but the amount of lead fouling you would need to increase pressure to the point it explodes, is so high that before you reached that point, the bullets being fired would be pushing lead fouling out the barrel.

 

[haldir]

Great, it only applies to .40s.... that is what I have.

 

[Mike Elzinga]

Keep in mind that it isnt "common" to .40's. The percentage of guns that blow up is very very very low. If it still bothers you, drop $100 and buy a barrel from any aftermarket supplier. All the major barrel makers (Lone Wolf, Barsto, KKM....) all make fully supported barrels.

 

[10ring]

Keep in mind that it isnt "common" to .40's. The percentage of guns that blow up is very very very low. If it still bothers you, drop $100 and buy a barrel from any aftermarket supplier. All the major barrel makers (Lone Wolf, Barsto, KKM....) all make fully supported barrels.

+1 on Lone Wolf. I have one of their replacement barrels in my G21 and it works great. Lone Wolf Distributors - Welcome

 

[jimbo-indy]

KKM makes good barrels too. Epsylum uses one in his to shoot 45 Super with no porvblem.

 

[ar15junkie]

The primer blew out of the round. Looks like excessive pressure to me.

 

[KevinH]

I just sent a Lone Wolf barrel back today for my G19. My armorer suggested it so I bought it. Found that the chamber was bored too deep and the ejector wouldn't grab. This is from the latest engineering change due to, according to LWD, the new powders used that burn so fast the slide couldn't function properly. Might have been trying to get too much production at the expense of quality. They were gracious and are taking the barrel back. I'm buying a stock barrel. I don't shoot bare lead anyway. I think all of the common sense observations are great. Guns are machines made by humans. Therfore, they can fail at any time. That's why we wear safety glasses!

Kevin.

 

[KevinH]

I just had another thought. How come when a Glock blows up no one puts pictures of guns, like the Kel-tec 380 that has the slide break just from shooting? You are trusting your life with someone else's idea.

 

[cougar_guy04]

It's usually caused by an improperly loaded cartridge (reloads). Too much chamber pressure is the cause of the failure, but there are many things that can cause too much chamber pressure. Wrong amount of powder, too short of an OAL, bullet stuck in the barrel with a round fired behind it, etc.

That was the cause of the most spectacular one I ever saw. 8.0 grains of Red Dot in a .45 USP.

Turned it into a mighty messed up paperweight.

 

[Seancass]

How come when a Glock blows up no one puts pictures of guns, like the Kel-tec 380 that has the slide break just from shooting?

There is a heated debate(fight?) between the Glocks and the 1911's. Whenever someone can point out where one has failed, they do. Kel-tecs don't have a bunch of people actively hating them, so nobody is constantly reposts pics of them failing.

 

[fg12351]

This concerned me too at first but in the end I still bought a Glock 23. I'm not going to reload, I'm not going to shoot lead, and I am going to clean it after each time at the range. Plus I got a 3rd generation and supposedly they added more support.