Worst match experience?

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How did it happen? Unknown. I took it to three different gunsmiths. None could find anything wrong. Bullet impacted the ground about 3 feet in front of me.
The blown up GC was worse. I was shooting *so* well that day. Damage to the gun was fairly minor. New barrel, mag catch, and grips and it was back in business. Unfortunately I dislocated 5 knuckles and had a 4 inch gash in my leg where the mag hit me. The paramedics got my medical needs taken care of, but the DNF on the final stage took me out of the prizes.
 
How did it happen? Unknown. I took it to three different gunsmiths. None could find anything wrong.
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Did it go off in the holster or while holstering? Could you have left the safety off and had finger in trigger guard while reholstering?
 
I was using a safariland speed rig, IPSC (pre-uspsa), loaded topped-off holstered looking over the targets getting my carma right, SO says nod when you're ready and Bang! The safety was on, the trigger covered, no protrusions in the holster, the internal parts were all within spec. It defied explination.
Could have been worse. A friend of mine shot himself in the hand a month later. Wadcutters make an awful mess.
 
Defining a disaster.....

I shared this with another board earlier this week.

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I've had my G34 for about a month now and put 400 rounds through it at the range (124g Montana Gold HP). Put 100 rounds through it at an USPSA match the first weekend in January (115g Montana Gold RN).

So, I go shoot the AR IDPA Winter Classic this past weekend (2/1/03) with 200 rounds of the 124g Montana Gold that performed flawlessly at the range. Out of 11 stages, I had at least 1 malfunction on all but one of them.

Second round out of the gun (side of the cartridge case) was getting slammed flush into the feed ramp and the tip of the 124g MG was hitting the top of the chamber. Tried pushing the slide forward and tried racking the slide to no avail. I had to drop my mag and clear the chamber each time (8 times in the light and 3 times in the pitch black dark).

After talking with a few people and thinking back to my range time with the same load, I figured this out. Not once during my range time had I loaded to capacity with the 124g MG loads. I think I have narrowed it down to strong magazine springs and the HP bullet. Friction between the top round in the fully loaded magazine slowed the slide velocity down just enough. Subsequently, the HP bullets were not given enough push to make it through the feed ramp and the tips not being round didn't help matters any.

So, not only will I probably start using RN bullets, I will be sure to test them with 1 in the chamber and 10 in the magazine!

On a side note, I did not have think about winning the match after the second mishap because I was completely out of the running by then. Luckily, I was able to still have fun and laugh about the incident(s). Also, I placed 1st on the stage I didn't have any malfunctions on. Go figure.

This definitely goes down as my worst match perforamance of all time. How frustrating. Bad karma all around that day.

Lesson learned: prior to going to a big match, or any match for that matter, duplicate everything you expect to happen in the match, right down the last detail.
 
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