Bizarre round failure, any ideas?

[Kendal Black]

This is indeed an odd one. I almost exclusively shoot Federal and have never had a single issue of any kind.

What would have caused the gun to not be in battery? If the previous round fired and ejected properly, the OP thought the next round was fine, pulled the trigger and got a click (striker released), it must have been in battery up until pulling the trigger, no? If the round failed to ignite completely, the gun would have been 100% out of battery. However the OP said it was 85-90% in battery, so there must have been SOME sort of ignition, right??

The way I play it out is this: The slide never closed fully. Thanks be to Gaston, there was no firing out of battery. There was, significantly, no mark on the primer. Good gun.

The deponent sayeth, there was no bang or spilled powder. I think the whole cartridge fell apart when raised and chambered, which points me to a certain country but, there is no need to name names, seguero que si!? For this is the high road.

 

[Danb1215]

again this was a sealed box of federal from WM. The bullet is copper jacketed, but the jacket has been scored off of about half of the area below the crimp.

 

[Hk Dan]

It's not that unusual at all. I've had it happen when the bullet wasn't properly swaged to size. It loads in the case due to belling, but when it's chambered it lodges in the rifling. When you rack it, the bullet pulls out, the powder dumps into the frame, and the case ejects.

No reason for alarm--you wouldn't even have been able to load another round behind it, so you were in utterly no danger at all.

 

[1KPerDay]

That makes more sense