If that's the case I have terrible luck, because this has happened twice with different factory loads, Winchester and Brass Max.
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Bullet in the barrel!
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If that's the case I have terrible luck, because this has happened twice with different factory loads, Winchester and Brass Max.
It's not like either of those are premium ammunition ....
Go easy on the bad luck part, you were lucky - you stopped!
I shoot a Glock 34 with my reloads in several different types of competition.
I'm a tad scared of shooting so fast that one gets hung and I've already launched the next one.
Not destroying your hand or the gun is LUCKY!
It didn't take me but once to learn my score was less important than my hands! I'll call it in a hurry if I even think I had a squib or problem with my gun.
Same exact thing you described happened to me a month or so ago running some WWB through my Glock 17.
I cleared it, loaded back up and kept shooting.
I've put about 400 more rounds through it since. No problem.
As MANY people have already told you, this is an AMMO issue.
ammo problem...but call Smith if you want to talk to someone new.
Tula ammo sucks, thats why its cheap. Winchester White Box has also been known to have bad rounds in it. Have you ever noticed its kind of like thunderbolt .22 ammo? sounds different every time you pull the trigger.
I had several squib rounds shooting over the counter ammo. Hasn't happened since I started loading myself. I save money and I shoot better. Could have easily been a bad primer too that didn't ignite the powder properly and you didn't get a good burn causing the failure as well.
Modern gun powder is not as easy to ignite as some people think, Granted its not too difficult, but it does take a little more than you would think it does
Unfortunately, they are pounding out rounds to keep up with demand. When you do things faster, you will have worse quality control. I can't tell you how many bad rounds I have found from various manufacturers in the past few years. Haven't had a squib, but many malformed bullets and even a few 10mm casings in my 40 ammo. Glad I started making my own.
I've had a few cases that were broken and had holes in them when I opened the box
This ^^^^
I called Smith and they said they would send me a return label to ship it to them. I'm the original owner, so they said any issues would fall under their lifetime warranty. I'm pretty tempted to go ahead and send it in even though it's most likely just bad ammo. At least it will have been inspected and deemed safe by Smith.
