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February 11, 2010
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A few weeks ago while shooting the Colt 10mm this happened.
Not a reload, Mid power factory ammo with a case head failure.
Possible overpressure due to wrong powder but loads felt mild and not overloaded.
Gun came out just fine, magazine took the blunt, luckly this was last round and mag was
empty, totally toasted it. I took a blast to the face that felt like welding sparks. I just
took off some sunglasses I was wearing because the sun was going under and was
to lazy to grab some protection. Then this happened. Grabbed up empty cases and
headed to the house.
I was at my home shooting range and that was a short drive across the farm. Was
more worried about my gun than anything until wifey said I was bleeding out the corner
of the eye. Had a few bad days with my sight but all well now.
Never had a problem with this ammo before, many hundreds of rounds, looking at the
other cases from that day anyone of them could have bursted.
Needless to say this will stick with me awhile, and you won't see me shooting without
glasses. I know I am not much to look at but wifey dose not cringe when see looks in my
direction….yet….and I am not going to hurry that either.
-Blacktop
February 20, 2008
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Yikes! Glad you came away from it relatively unscathed.
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November 17, 2008
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Wow that is a little scary. Glad that you were not hurt seriously. What do you think happened? Looks like they didn't reach full lock up and fired anyway, but I didn't think that was suppose to happen.
Any ideas?
LB
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January 22, 2008
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Blacktop glad your ok!
January 17, 2011
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you were lucky that you didn't end up with some bad physical damage. we can all learn a lesson from that episode.
January 22, 2008
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Blacktop, good to hear your ok!
I would contact Double Tap and ask if they are aware of the case head seperation. I sure would hate for someone else using ammo from the same lot to expereince what you have, or worse.
I have seen case head seperation like that before, but it was on reloads. We can usually get about 8 to 10 reloads on .338 Lapua Mag (Lapua brand) brass before case head seperation. This is in a rifle where the case is fully supported and a failure is contained. Each case is inspected after use and if there is any evidence of a ring appearing at the head, the brass is tossed.
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January 24, 2009
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Those primer strikes appear to be off center on a few of those, could it be the gun?
Regardless, I'm glad you're ok & it wasn't any worse than a learning lesson.
I always shoot with sunglasses on, but maybe I'd better think about wearing actual safety glasses.
February 11, 2010
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Thanks guys......me too !
LB :
No fault of gun, shot 100 rnds of various other before this load that day
and no other showed case bulge. Have shot 300 rnds since with a close eye
and nothing. In fact the day it happened I checked the gun over three times
with a fine tooth put it back together and went out and ran 2 clips through
her to make sure she was ok....hows that for hard headed...
Must be an over pressure problem or case failure, pressure could be
from a powder mistake or a bullet set back. Had a couple boxes of this
lot and they went back to DT. Have heard nothing yet....
-Blacktop
February 11, 2010
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Charger Fan said:
Those primer strikes appear to be off center on a few of those, could it be the gun?
Regardless, I'm glad you're ok & it wasn't any worse than a learning lesson.
I thought that too, but research told me that the not perfect center hits are not a factor
and are common in autos, but a dragging strike is a sign of overpressure in the
auto's .
-Blacktop
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January 24, 2009
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Ok, just checking.
I haven't had many autos, so I wasn't sure. My DW 1911 hits in the center, so I was mainly judging from how it performs.
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February 22, 2009
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Glad to hear you're OK also. I'm a BIG advocate of EYEPRO as we call it. I've had a few Soldiers in my career have their eyes saved (I'm convinced) due to proper eyepro. Many folks wear sunglasses or prescription lenses and think that's OK. I beg to differ; the only safe eyepro is ballistically rated safety glasses.
Be Safe!
Ron
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May 2, 2009
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All it took was for me to get a piece of steel stuck in my eye off a grinder--and it got infected overnight... talk about painful.
I wear shooting glasses every time I shoot, it just doesn't pay not too.
SHOOT
April 25, 2008
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Glad you are ok. I never, ever pick up a gun without protective eyewear on. Won't even go on the firing line without it. You only have 1 set of eyes, and it's too easy to lose them.
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March 2, 2008
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Since I wear eyeglasses, I never gave this much thought, constant eye protection, right? One day on the range, firing 22 lr in an autoloader, an empty casing rebounded off the sidewall of the firing point I was on, came directly through the top of my glasses, and gave me a small burn on my cheek just below the eye. Since then, I wear a hat with the brim pulled pretty low when shooting. Not perfect, but I've bounced a fair number of casings off that hat over the years.
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