Crazy Glock Malfunction

[Dutch1911]

Well here's a new one I thought I'd share with you.
I'm an LE Firearms Instructor and occasionally we come across some flat out interesting stuff.
This one, an officer that has a limp wristing issue. Apparently the slide cought a round and chambered it backwards... WOW! Talk about a GAG reflex in a gunfight. Get Another Gun!

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And another one we all hear about but I personally have never seen. A dropped round detonated on the gravel. The round was not found but wow... the brass sure looks good.

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[wow6599]

I would have never thought it would be possible (catching a spent case and chambering it in backwards).
Learn something new every day.

 

[il_10]

My m1 carbine did that once. Serious problem, that one.

 

[RX-178]

At first I thought 'round loaded backwards in magazine', HK ad style.

Then I saw the dent in the primer, and scrolled down.


...Wow.

 

[Prion]

Only a gun that was Perfect could pull a circus trick like that!

Dropped round kaboom, scary!

Thanks for sharing, Reaper will be here shortly to tell us why this is an operator error and couldn't possibly be the Glock.

 

[BlayGlock]

That is pretty amazing.

 

[Armed 24/7]

Beretta M9

Not the same situation, but similar:
I once saw the after effects of a newbie loading half of a magazine backwards (HK style), and then realizing his mistake, loading the other half correctly. This was during qualifying to be a gate guard on LRAFB. When he had the stoppage with his M9, and raised his hand, the range officer was baffled about how the round could have done that. He ejected the magazine, cleared the chamber, and when he reinserted the magazine, then saw the problem. The look on his face was priceless he realized what happened. Under careful supervision, he did end up qualifying.

 

[md7]

wow. that's crazy.

 

[piece of meat]

he loaded the first half backward, then realized his mistake, and loaded the other half correctly???

so, he realized his mistake but went ahead and left the first half in there backwards??
LMAO!!!!

 

[herkyguy]

great thread. never would have believed it.

 

[smince]

When I took Extreme Close-Range Gunfighting with Gabe Suarez, we had a student's .40 KAHR chamber the last case in a magazine backwards just like the Glock in the pic.

1st time I had ever seen or heard of that particular malf.

 

[galvatron]

I dont buy it.... Either one.
How would the weapon strip the round turn it 180 and then feed it correctly into the chamber????
Where's the bullet, the brass has damage to the egde of the case, where it has been pushed inward. If there was a bullet in the case those marks are not possible. So it wasn't a loaded round when chambered.
Are we to beleive it was a spent case that was ejected, and then caught and fed into the chamber before the next round? Complete bs.
It was a spent case loaded in the mag backwards, and the wrong caliber at that.
Next can anyone explain why the brass would explode like that? The displacement of the projectile would occur long before the case exploded from any pressure. Even just a primer can force a round out of the case.
I call BS on both of these.

 

[jonmerritt]

looking down the barrel it's a brass casing, look in the chamber and it's aluminum????

 

[galvatron]

I left that one alone. I figured bad lighting, camera flash, or some other bs camera excuse would be brought up to explain that. I wondered if anyone else would catch it.

 

[Dutch1911]

Wow... apparently Glavatron... or whatever your little screen name is, has issues with the pics.
They are certainly real my little friend.
If you bother to read my post, you'll find I never stated the round was loaded backwards. I was there... it did happen... a shooter with a serious limp wristing issue. The round was fired as normal, the case was ejected, at least partially and apparently caught by the slide and re chambered. We've seen some bizarre things this year.
Regardless... enjoy.

Dutch1911
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[Stasher1]

looking down the barrel it's a brass casing, look in the chamber and it's aluminum????

Doesn't look like a brass case to me. Looks like they used a weak incandescent flashlight to light up the bore, giving it a yellow tint.

 

[forindooruseonly]

Next can anyone explain why the brass would explode like that? The displacement of the projectile would occur long before the case exploded from any pressure. Even just a primer can force a round out of the case.
I call BS on both of these.

Cases are only strong when supported by the chamber in the barrel. When detonated outside of a barrel, a case WILL shred just like the one pictured. It is not designed to deal with the pressure, simply to hold the components. The barrel is actually what contains and directs the pressure. That's why barrels are thick steel, not thin soft brass.

Thanks for posting those, Dutch1911.

 

[galvatron]

As usual when confonted, people who are feeling threatened resort to childish behavior.
Fired, ejected, flipped over caught and rechambered? Nope.
Do unsupported rounds also leave no burned powder residue/carbon behind inside the case. Looks really shiny to me. Still calling BS.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

galvatron, It may be that not one of us in this thread, including you, knows all there is to know about guns and what may or may not happen in bizzare circumstances. I'm really not sure what the point is to being so confrontational about this. If the pics are real, it's something odd and 20 seconds of your life are a little more entertained than they would have been otherwise. If the pics are fake, so what?

Welcome to THR, I think you'll like it here. Though I would recommend not being so confrontational with everyone. It really doesn't serve any purpose.

 

[possum]

I was at a training course, where a round in a glock was chambered backwards, it was not because it was a glock, and it wasn't because the operator loaded the round backwards in the magazine. Wierd things happen.

 

[pbratton]

Great post Dutch!

I'm sure if you'd have used Taurus or Kimber in your post instead of Glock no-one would have contested the validity of your story...

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

Especially if it was a Kimber

 

[autospike]

Doesn't look like a brass case to me. Looks like they used a weak incandescent flashlight to light up the bore, giving it a yellow tint.

Agreed. It's stamped CCI so it could definitely be aluminum. And look at the color of the lighting outside the barrel.

we had a student's .40 KAHR chamber the last case in a magazine backwards

I was at that same class and saw it. Though honestly, I thought he still had rounds left in the mag.

 

[mljdeckard]

For every foolproof system, there is a fool out there trying to make a name for himself.

My unit issues M-9s and M-11s. We had a new guy, never fired a handgun before, got issued one, then they changed their minds and gave him the other. They went out to the range to qual him, and he had the wrong mags. No one had ever told him that not 9mm magazines don't just work in any pistol. How the heck was he supposed to know?

 

[Perseverance]

Another guy with a similar problem.. G19 Gen4