Have you ever had a Squib?

Yes, 2 from reloads, 1 from WWB .45.

Saw with my own eyes when I was a teen.

Friend of older relative was shooting some sort of 44-40. A Colt if I remember right.

He reloaded for it.

Spit the barrel like a banana straight down the center of the top and bottom of the barrel. There was a bulge right after the barrel attached to the frame and the split started at the end of the bulge.

I have a couple of times. Hazards of reloading with a progressive press. It even worse since I almost always shoot with a silencer attached and I can't hear if the shot cleared. Both times I caught it before the next round went down range.

I reload (with sometimes unproven/unpublished loads due to circumstances...lack of preferred powder...out of my control), therefore I occasionally squib.

I have not had a squib from a reload mistake or from a commercial cartridge.

I had one when I was firing someone else's gun with his reloads. I had a "failure to fire" with a hiss. I luckily realized something was up, stopped and brought the gun over to him with a bullet in the barrel.

Had several with light reloads when I used to shoot SASS. Chalked most of them up to being too gamy for my own good. Most of the time the bullet would make is out of the barrel though.
Haven't had a factory load squib yet but I have had a few Remington GB 22lr rounds cause me to stop shooting and check for stuck bullets.

Two.
One from Incident with House Fire salvage that had been smoked, steamed, and wetted.
I had some misfires. I was not worried, considered them part of the practice. But then one squibbed and stuck a bullet. I pulled the rest to recover the bullets and brass.

One mismatched reload with too little powder and much air space, fired starting from a muzzle down "ready position." Erratic reports, then a stuck bullet with unignited powder behind it.

I've seen two. One a reload in a friend's gun. Another was someone at a CCW re-qualification and I don't recall what the ammo was.

Yep. 2. But not in a long time.

Yes, the ones I mentioned in the other thread about range bags. I began hand loading in '72 on a Lee progressive press. My first caliber was 44 Magnum for my S&W Model 29. I loaded 50 rounds and in three or four omitted the powder charge. A primer only does not push a 44 caliber 240 grain JHP bullet very far.

Apparently the lesson and embarrassment paid off as I never screwed up another load.

Ron

.17 HMR Squib

My brother asked me to clean and sight in a used Marlin bolt-action .17 HMR for him. His 16 year old son had been shooting it recently. When he handed it to me, I removed the bolt to see how dirty the barrel was and couldn't see light thru the barrel....!

When I got it to my bench I tried to run my .17 cleaning rod down the barrel, and the obstruction would not budge. I had to use a brass rod with a brass hammer to drive out the .17 caliber bullet towards the breech. It was lodged about 4" from the chamber, and a lot tighter than I thought it would be for a .17 cal. bullet. To the best of my knowledge, it was a CCI round, but I can't verify that 100%.

What is really fortunate is the fact that was the last shot his son made before putting the rifle away..!

I've had at least 30 or 40. The first few were learning accidents, but after that I did a bunch on purpose out of curiosity.

one from a Winchester white box 9mm, another from a reload. I missed a powder drop. I've since modified my procedure to inspect every drop before placing the bullet.

Never with factory ammo.

Yes.

We purposefully reloaded some rounds to see how the case lube-saturated powder might affect the charge. The powder did not ignite in correlation to the amount of lube in that powder. The more lube in the powder, the less ignition. Some were not squibs, a couple were.

I have half a coffee can full of 38 specials that stick one in the bore about 5% of the time due to (I eventually deduced) a powder measure goof. I have a very badly abused S&W 38/44 heavy duty that has been assigned the duty of shooting them up and having the duds hammered out of the bore. It's faster than pulling them.

Yes

One with factory ammo (9mm), one with my reloads (.45acp).
I keep a rod in my range bag these days.

Actually, one for .38/.357/.380/9mm, one for .45 cal.
Also works well for oversized/out of spec rounds that partially/nearly chamber but then jam hard. Had that happen a time or two, too.

The rod allows you to free that stuck round and get back to shooting.

Don't need it often, but it can make the difference between a 30-second inconvenience and the end of the shooting day.

Blackhorn 209 powder and standard primers in Knight muzzle loader
Some 12 guage buckshot reloads using really old Remington primers stored in a humid NC basement. You could actually see the shot loafing through the air.

I've never had a squib lodged in a barrel. Even the muzzleloader sent a ball down range, just really slow.

Yup,

Two, Winchester white box 9mm that I paid a premium to get during the late shortage. Both had bullets lodged in the bore. Lucky for me I checked the bore before loading another round.

YUP! I walked around in the pasture long enough to have one.

Once!

Been reloading since the 1960's.

Yes, I have. It was a hand load early in my career. I was shooting .38 special through a S&W Model 14. I didn't notice anything wrong...nothing sounded different...nothing felt different...but the cylinder was jammed from a bullet that only made it hallway out of the chamber. My assumption is that I simply forgot to charge that round...it had only a primer in it.

I was very fortunate, as I had one more round in the cylinder. If that bullet had made it into the barrel, I'd have sent another one right into it. Again...I never felt of heard anything wrong. Maybe it was because I was so focused on shooting well...maybe it was because it was a noisy public range...but nothing seemed wrong.

My squib load was caused by my handling the bullet with oily fingers. Didn't think it was enough to contaminate the powder but it did. Remind myself to wash my hands with solvent to remove any oils.

I've probably had a dozen or so over the years. I shoot revolver, and I shoot fairly slow, so I've always known what happened, and was able to tap the bullet out with no problem.

Yes, I have. Three, in fact. They'll make your ass red and make you talk ugly.

Had a factory 45 colt squib on me several years ago.