H&k Kaboom

[Lobotomy Boy]

I don't think that 1911 lovers and Glock haters are one and the same, but there seems to be a lot of cross overs. They may not be in the same camp, but their camps are located right next to each other and there is a big hole in the fence that they can crawl through and intermingle genetic material.

 

[cidirkona]

I don't own any plastic framed firearms yet -- but I do know this:

Engineering mantra: What doesn't bend will break.

-Colin

 

[BrokenArrow]

Well, so far, the only fatality I know of from a kB is from a Ruger .40, not a Glock. An all steel gun with mucho thick chamber walls and plenty of case support too.

Maybe too much? Case was so well supported the force (which had to go somewhere) blew the extractor out of the gun hard enough that when it hit the guy next to the shooter in the head, it killed him.

 

[Grump]

Did Ruger ever do those plugged barrel and cutaway slide tests with the .40s and .45s, that they did with the P85 way back when?

Be interesting to repeat those with everybody else's favorite guns.

 

[tc300mag1]

I Saw a p-90 they did it to and a PC4 that it was done to with a squib made it 10 rounds and finally cracked the barrel .. Cant rember where i saw the pc4 at on line but its out there.

 

[BrokenArrow]

An obstructed bore test is pretty common now; bullet lodged in bbl in front of chamber and another fired. To pass, gun must not be damaged and still capable of firing. FBI Glock 40s passed that test, and so did INS/BP Beretta 40s. SIGS, USPs, and Walthers too. All have kBd anyway.

Not as severe as the Ruger test, where they actually screwed a rod into the bbl and fired a round into that, all with a section of the slide removed.

Still, Ruger did fail the US mil spec testing that Beretta and SIG passed... one reason I've heard is that the guns were capable of "incorrect" reassembly after field strip.