G.A.D.

[Hillcrest]

A second thought.

 

[Hillcrest]

Buy the best and cry only once.

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

georged said:

Buy the best and cry only once.

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Looks like a pre-lock, pre-MIM, S&W model 66 with 2.5 inch barrel. Some would argue that is the best.

I would cry if it was mine.

 

[georged]

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What's the backstory?

That looks like some type of ammo error.

I've seen handloaders who used an index press manage a double charge of some low-volume/max boom powder like Unique grenade a pistol a couple times.

Hell, I even saw a Colt Python destroyed once by a guy who refused to accept the exponential nature of over-charging, and was determined to hit magic chronograph numbers. Just a leetle more. OK, almost there... Just a leetle more. (idiot)

I've also seen really old ammo (40-ish years) split cases and flow primers because of long term powder instability.

Finally, a no-powder load will also do it with a revolver if a bullet gets primer'd into the bore and the trigger is pulled again.

 

[brian64]

Finally, a no-powder load will also do it with a revolver if a bullet gets primer'd into the bore and the trigger is pulled again.

It looks like that might have been the case.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Shit like that makes it seem like guns actually are dangerous.


All it takes is to be empting the magazine into a bag of trash down at the dump and find a squib load... Boom!

 

[PA Piper Mike]

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I think I see your problem....

 

[woodsroad]

I think I see your problem....

Wearing camo to the range?

 

[tbradsim1]

last time a long time ago a teenager and his Dad were dangerous, teenager swung his rifle acrross me I grabbed the barrel and pulled it out of his hands, Dad came up and I was ready to butt him with the stock, range master came in, told him what happened, he ran them off. No more range for me, I shoot on the farm! I Garronte!

 

[edger]

Depends on the breadth and depth of the sample size that created it. When sufficient, it has a different name: pattern recognition.

Apparently you don’t know what confirmation bias is or means.

 

[Hillcrest]

Apparently you don’t know what confirmation bias is or means.

I admit I had to look it up to 'confirm' my understanding ... which was a bit weak and primitive ! In doing so, I came across one aspect I see all the time on threads : illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). Boy, does that happen often in conversations today!
I always think of the MASH episode when the elderly Korean woman answers the phone "Me speak, you speak".