Rotate Your Carry Ammo: Squib Load in Snubby

[Kimber45acp]

What if you happened to have some blanks available in the particular caliber. Would a blank have sufficient energy to fire the slug out? Would that be smart?

In a semi auto you could try that. Not in a revolver!

Why would blanks be bad in a revolver but be fine in a semi auto in this situation? I should have thought of it, but blanks are the best Idea. It beats scratching the hell out of the bore.

WHY are you guys even putting ANY oil in your chambers and on the bolt face???????????????? The chamber and bolt face should always be dry as a bone unless the gun is going into storage in a humid area.

 

[ChCx2744]

Not the bolt face and the chamber. The bolt assembly itself and the bottom of the bolt carrier. You have to oil the bolt assembly and the bottom because those are the parts moving against and past each other during action cycles. Oil from inside the bolt carrier group and on the bottom of the bolt carrier assembly WILL creep into your magazine, if you keep a magazine in your gun. I guess that is why some people use grease, but some people still use oil, such as myself. MY question was, will the same malfunctions and can the same malfunctions happen in rifles?

 

[the hudge]

Stop the madness! Are you guys oiling your bullets so they feed better? Where the bullet goes there should be no oil, period. Not on the breach face, in the camber nor on the part of the slide that operates the reset pin and/or the hammer.
Sheeesh.

 

[testosterone]

agree, stop with all the over oiling.

Fact is though, you'll never know the real reason for the squib. The round could have easily been defective off the assembly line, it happens even if it seems rare.

 

[testosterone]

and...

bores are tough things. Put a brass rod in there and bash the stuck slug out, its a gun barrel, not a tea cup.

Gunsmiths vice the barrel, put a rod in and hit em hard with a heavy hammer to get stuck slugs out of barrels.

 

[psyopspec]

Had a squib round once when I first got into handgunning. The box of ammo went from the store, to the range, to the magazine, to the gun where it failed. Gun was not overlubed. Sometimes primers/powder can just be crap; doesn't even need to be a good reason.

so what about in AR-15's? because whenever i take out my magazine to clear and examine the gun, the first 2-3 rounds at the top of the magazine are very slick and covered with oil. there is no helping it, because i add a generous amount of lube to my ar's bolt carrier assembly. if that crap can happen with handguns, can't it happen with AR type rifles? this is scaring me now.

You're using way too much lube if that's the case. Read the manual - after all, the guys that made it probably know more about it than you and I. If it's like the one I read, it should say something about a light coat of oil on the wear points (NOTE: the entire bolt carrier group is not one big wear point), the "teeth" on the bolt that lock into the star chamber and the cam pin. No reason any rounds should be covered in oil, let alone 2 or 3 of them.

 

[ChCx2744]

What about the contact points between the charging handle and upper, as well as the bottom of the bolt carrier assembly and the top of the lower that contacts with the bolt carrier assembly? I just oil wherever I see wear marks.