.32acp out of a glock 26..whoop's

[keederdag]

So me and de wife are at the range today and she is poping away with her Glock26, and her Kel-tec P-32. I am about 3 bay's down and doing my own thing. My wife is no novice. She is a trained Range safety officer at the State run shooting range out here; and has attended several higher level combat handgun classes. She hunt's and has allway's been very safe. Today she was shooting S&B .32 acp and Win (walmart) 115grn 9mm. The ammo looks quite simiar at first glance; both cartriges are completely gold in color...bullets/cases ect. Anyhow I hear she's having Trouble with a "what the &*^% and Da**itt" and I go to see what's up. She's watching a pile of ammo spew from the lips of a G-26 mag. I look a bit closer and relize they are .32's coming out like a runaway pez gun. Next to this mess, on the table is a .32 case..that looks like a reverse bottle neck, with a split. She acctually fired a .32 out of the 9mm. I was first, concerned for her safety and then amazed it went off. .32's will pretty much drop right down the barrel of a 9mm. So the extractor must have held it in place. After very close inspection there seems to be no damage to the pistol...but wow.......She was very imbarassed; I was in shock...I just didnt think this could happen. I could see a .380 doing it but a .32??? Interesting Huh?

She promised to be much more careful from now on.

 

[Edward429451]

I did the same thing once with a 40 S&W in a colt 45. Just a little pop and gas went up & sideways. I guess I was lucky there, I read about Wiley Clapp doing the same thing and he got a facefull of brass for it.

Be careful! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Stand_Watie]

Out of curiosity what would happen if you tried to fire .380 out of a 9mm? Or 9mm out of a 38?

 

[Kodiak AK]

Last ditch SHTF a .380 will fire out of a 9 , but it probaly wont feed right .
I don't recmend doing it unless you have to . I don't know about the .38 though.

 

[Majic]

The 9mm shouldn't fit far enough in the chamber of a .380 for the slide to lock up. The pistol should stay out of battery and not fire.

 

[Gary A]

I don't clearly remember all the particulars right now but I shot a .32 acp out of my NAA Guardian .380. I stupidly and incoherently loaded a .380 magazine with .32 acp rounds. They loaded but when 6 were in I knew it didn't look right. Still in a brain freeze I inserted the mag, chambered a round and fired the gun. The first round fired with a "whoof" so I stopped to see what was the matter. Waiting a bit, I dropped the mag, and checked the chamber to find the second round had slipped partway down the barrel, unfired. No damage done. Very weird but I'm glad I didn't try to pull the trigger again. No one likes to admit stupid things but it's good to hear about them.

 

[walking arsenal]

just tested that theory in my taurus 85. a 9mm wont fit in a .38 because a 9mm is a little tapered and the .38 isnt.

 

[4v50 Gary]

How about a 9mm out of a 45? Had that happen to me once when someone loaded my magazine for me. It was a pop & not a bang. If I had known what had happened, I would have recovered the case.

 

[Edward429451]

I recovered my 40 S&W case, it was still in the chamber and came out easily. I was going to shoot up my rotated stock of Hydrashocks in my 45 and accidently grabbed my BIL's 40 S&W hydrashocks off the bench. They look real similar.

 

[jsalcedo]

I shot .38 supers out of my Taurus .357 one time.

Solider of fortune magazine said that they would work fine.

Split cases and difficult extraction cured me of believing everything I read.

 

[Otony]

Well, this is a bit embarrassing, as I NEEDED the revolver at the time.....

I was way back in the hills on BLM land a few years back. Had a friend from church with me who had suffered a heart attack a few weeks earlier. He was fine, but a teeny bit wobbly, so we were taking it easy. Also had another friend along, a very beautiful young woman who had just come over from Russia a year or two before. She was, how shall I say this delicately, very easy on the eyes and dressed for VERY warm weather. Also quite innocent and yet extremely alluring.

We were just having a picnic, when all of a sudden a Suzuki 4-wheeler showed up, and 4 sweaty, scruffy fellows with rifles jumped out. They were Bulgarians who were "deer hunting". When they realized my friends were Russian, they wanted to know if we were Jews, right off the bat. The situation was decidely uncomfortable.

Why I had the luck to encounter a mob of crazy, armed Eastern Europeans in the hills of California is beyond me, but they had instantly sized up the situation. The girl was prime, the second fellow was feeble, and I appeared unarmed. It started to get a bit tense until I hauled a Ruger Blackhawk out of a bag next to me and mentioned I was a hunter too, did they want to see me shoot?

I ripped off a round from the Ruger at a rock up the hill, they decamped right now, and all was right with the world. Right, that is, until I decided to fire another round at the rock to "encourage" them on their way. A resounding CLICK filled the air. Luckily, they were already raising a dust cloud.

Upon examination, I had loaded 10mm cartridges into the .38-40 cylinder of my Buckeye Blackhawk! For those not familar, this Blackhawk was a limited run, dual cylinder 10mm/.38-40. The fired 10mm case was expanded and split. I was also sans either 10mm cylinder, or .38-40 cartridges. The second round had merely been shoved a bit further into the cylinder. The first went off due to the grace of God.

Needless to say, our picnic ended very soon thereafter.

 

[fastbolt]

http://glocktalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=224833

We all have to be careful ...

 

[BluesBear]

Edward429451, isn't that a casing for the new .40GAP?


Or is it the new 45/40 High Point?

 

[Edward429451]

45/40 Highpoint, reverse bottleneck experimental cartridge. No brass available yet so have to fireform my own. Still in the developmental stage. It's a, uh, blast fireforming this brass!! Dunno yet if Colt's unsupported chamber caused the slight weakening of the brass, or if it was just weak brass to begin with...

 

[foghornl]

.32's coming out like a runaway pez gun.

Gives a new meaning to "I'm gonna empty a mag at ya", doesn't it? ?


///////Wise N. Hiemer mode off