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1911 Kaboom! Diagnosis help? (and always wear eye pro!).
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<blockquote data-quote="MagnumManiac" data-source="post: 2141222" data-attributes="member: 10755"><p>Glad you are ok.</p><p>Back in my IPSC days I had a catastrophic disintegration of a Springfield Armoury 1911. I have the case too, it blew out and elongated into the feed ramp. The primer pocket is huge and oblong and the frame, slide and barrel were all ruptured like a triple charge had been used...alas it wasn't.</p><p>I had just cleared a jam and didn't recall a bang or not, didn't check the barrel and the next shot detonated the gun.</p><p>The jam was a squib and the bullet was lodged in the barrel, the next shot...well you know how it goes. That was a custom race gun, cost me $5,000 at the time, turned to scrap. Gave my Dillon away after that and it had a lock out die for no powder, so who knows.</p><p>Looks to me that it blew out where it's not supported, definitely an overload.</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MagnumManiac, post: 2141222, member: 10755"] Glad you are ok. Back in my IPSC days I had a catastrophic disintegration of a Springfield Armoury 1911. I have the case too, it blew out and elongated into the feed ramp. The primer pocket is huge and oblong and the frame, slide and barrel were all ruptured like a triple charge had been used...alas it wasn’t. I had just cleared a jam and didn’t recall a bang or not, didn’t check the barrel and the next shot detonated the gun. The jam was a squib and the bullet was lodged in the barrel, the next shot...well you know how it goes. That was a custom race gun, cost me $5,000 at the time, turned to scrap. Gave my Dillon away after that and it had a lock out die for no powder, so who knows. Looks to me that it blew out where it’s not supported, definitely an overload. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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