It Happened At The Range & I am Happy It Was Not During A Confrontation

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Yep, Something that helps also to do occasionally is this: in a safe place, while keeping your finger OFF the trigger, dry cycle a couple of magazines through your pistol until all the loaded rounds have hit the carpet, so to speak. Troublesome mags, ammo, or gun parts will sometimes manifest that way too.
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Unless you're looking for a slam fire, be sure to do this with snap caps only! NEVER "play" with live rounds. Besides, all you'll end up doing is chewing up the case rims unnecessarily and possibly causing bullet set back. All it takes is that 1911 with a slightly out of spec sear to put a nice hole(s) exactly where you don't want one.

And, by using snap caps while "dry cycling", you can safely practice trigger control when dry firing each DUMMY/SNAP CAP "round".
 
.380 out of a 9mm Glock. Bang! Click. Tap . . Rack . . . Bang! Click. Tap . . .rack. Bang ! Click. Went on for 10 rounds. Dad became real disappointed in his new Glock until I showed him he was firing his Bersa's ammo in the 9. :rolleyes:

Or mine. Bring G19 up to fire. Bang! Mag falls out. Reinsert mag. Bang! Mag out again. Then I realized I wasn't loading the mag in fully :eek:
 
I had a brand new Ruger P345 I'd run about, oh, a few hundred rounds through.

I got into a situation where I nearly had to shoot someone with it, but didn't.

The next day I went to the range and it jammed up with the magazine I'd been ready to employ in that SD scenario.

I lost all confidence in it and traded it away.

Glad it happened at the range.
 
I've had some disabling parts breakages occur on handguns. One, a broken slide lock spring on a Glock 19, caused the slide lock to fall out and the slide - with the barrel and recoil spring still attached - fly off the front of the frame and into the dirt.
 
How'd that happen??? The slide lock and spring does NOT hold the barrel and slide on a Glock. The take down piece that you pull down on either side holds the barrel and slide on the frame.
 
.380 out of a 9mm Glock. Bang! Click. Tap . . Rack . . . Bang! Click. Tap . . .rack. Bang ! Click. Went on for 10 rounds. Dad became real disappointed in his new Glock until I showed him he was firing his Bersa's ammo in the 9.
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He's lucky the lower powered round didn't get stuck in the barrel and the next round causing a KaBoom!
 
Yesterday, I went to get out my
9mm from it's lockbox and entered the combination to get a clicking noise and a failure to unlock. The battery must be dying. I had to go get the regular key. If it was an emergency, I might have been dying.
 
Barrel missing from your carry piece?

ha!

I bet they got a chuckle out of that.
 
My SIG P6 was functioning fine and was my main SD gun for awhile. I took it to the range one day and it started jamming after 50 rounds. Now it jams regularly at the range. I keep that gun unloaded, and myXD and Ruger SP101 are my go to guns.
 
Heh, I spent 45 minutes filling a bag with ammo, and choosing 7 rifles and pistols to take with me. I got a phone call from a friend asking if I could pick him up on my way. NP I said. Got into the car, started it up, picked up my friend, and got to the range only to discover that my bag and "toys" were still where I had left them. I had an interesting talk with the spouse that night (she doesn't like them "lying around")
 
After 5,000+ rounds and several gazillion dry fires, the hammer return spring on my 1996ish SIG P220 broke during a range session. The hammer flopped back and forth, preventing the slide from working properly.

This happened a second time after at least another 5,000 rounds and another gazillion dry fires. A call to SIG revealed that the springs would break "after awhile" from dry firing. SIG has since changed the design of the spring.

Springfield Armory "Loaded" 1911 (M9109)

I was at a gun class shooting Independence ammo (230 grain FMJ). Sometime during the first part of the first day, I drew and fired. There was a weird "ker-chunk" grating sensation. Rather than shoot, I "tapped and racked". I fired and felt another "ker-chunk" after a big old fireball came out the front. I looked into the now partially closed slide and saw a round FTF'd. I ejected the round and saw that the case was mashed. I reloaded the gun, felt yet another "ker-chunk", dumped the mag, and ejected the round. The bullet was about 50% back into the case! Perhaps that was the source of that fireball....
 
Guys, I haven't read this entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned...preventive maintenance is a good thing. Everything designed and made by man will break and especially if under heavy use.

Preventive maintenance is more than cleaning and lubricating your weapons. It includes identifying parts prone to failure and replacing them from time to time before they break.

Especially in carry weapons.
 
Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me when people just dump a box of ammo at some random target, then load up and call it good. :rolleyes:
 
- Barrel missing from carry piece. Discovered when showing clear at gun show entrance.

- Glock slide rusted closed to barrel/chamber, considerable force needed to break loose. Discovered at arrival at range when making carry piece clear.
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Used to own a Glock 35 (till I loaned it to a buddy, got a hankering for a Sig P226 in .40, discovered my buddy liked it, and sold it to him to finance the Sig). One day at the range, I pulled it out of the rangebag to notice to front sight had fallen off.

Upon buying my Kimber, I ordered a couple of those Wilson 47Ds that I heard were "Soooo cool". Well, took it to the range, went through 150 rounds, and last round in both of them wouldn't feed. The 8 round Kimpro I had purchased worked like a charm, so I know it wasn't the gun. Sold the mags to a friend whose wife tried them in her springfield and liked them, and bought 2 more kimpros.

Dad came to see me and brought my Ruger 10/22 and Maverick 88 from home. We went to the range to let him try out my AR, my .45, and my Sig, and also to shoot the guns he brought that I haven't shot in awhile. Went to the shotgun right away. Gave it a pump, pulled the trigger, "click". Waited a second and ejected the round. The primer wasn't even dented. Loaded a fresh round. Same thing. Realized on a later range trip, for whatever reason, I need to pump it forward harder than I remember doing, otherwise it won't fire.
 
HOT shells!

I can't be the only one here who has had hot shells from a semi-auto pistol fly down my shirt? YIKES! Shooting at an indoor range, the ejected brass would bounce off the ceiling and down my back.

So, I learned to button my collar when shooting at that range. Next, a hot shell lodged tightly between my shooting glasses and my EYELID! OW! I still have that odd crescent shaped scar on my eyelid today.

At least both of these episodes are unlikely to happen under an open sky?.......................elsullo :uhoh:
 
Taurus pt99 - rear sight broke twice/ breech lock broke once
Colt 1911 Gold Cup - rear sight roll pin came out twice
Sig 226 - front sight fell off during a match - slide stop broke during a match - breech block pins broke twice.
CZ 75 - rear sight came off

Stuff happens - I have learned to check more things more often - 35 years of shooting nothing surprises me, but I am getting more of my problems fixed on the bench before the range time than I was - inspection and PM is a good thing.
 
Let's see...

Glock 19: had trigger return spring break and started having FTEs due to a weakened original recoil and mag spring.

Kel-Tec P3AT: You name it. :rolleyes:

Kel-Tec P11: Rear plastic sight flew off when shooting.

Kimber 1911: Had to work out an issue for the slide not locking back after the last round.

Kahr PM9: Couple of FTFeeds and not fully returning to battery when it was new and VERY tight. Not a problem after the first 100 rounds or so...they recommend a 200 round break-in.
 
Today, went to the range and fired both my XD9 and my SP101 from my left (weak) hand. Only shot one magazine/cylinder out of each. The webbing of my left hand between my thumb & index finger swelled up to the point where it was painful when I accidently brushed it.

So I don't intend to do that again unless neccesary. Maybe a few rounds out of each, but not that many.
 
Sig 228 FTF at the range. Freaked me out. Happened on 3 mags...
By by... You can't bring back confidence to a pistol that has lost it for you.
 
New gun BREAK in

New Kel-Tec P11 9mm stainless – after 370 rounds, cleaned at 250, that little voice in the back of my mind said: New gun or not you should give it a look and see how it’s doing. There was a crack in the slide from the left front corner of the ejection port forward 1 cm. Kel-Tec replaced the upper and returned it in less than a week.

Bad at the range, VERY bad if I had needed it.
 
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