Squib Loads in a Ruger

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A friend emailed me these pictures with a long drawn out story about squib loads. I won't bore you with that because I can't verify the story but the photos are facinating. It's amazing that much pressure can be put into the barrel without bursting it. I count 12 bullets in the barrel and based on the shape of the last bullet it looks like a round was fired after the barrel was filled up.

Maybe someone else has seen these and knows the whole story.

 

[Powder_Burns]

Re: Squib Loads in a Ruger

I think its safe to say that barrel is toast.

 

[macthknife]

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Expensive paperweight. Cool pictures though.

 

[slowkota]

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Thats crazy!

 

[E. Bryant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Powder Burns</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think its safe to say that barrel is toast. </div></div>

Well, yeah - it's cut in half!

At least it was a Ruger, so the pistol can reassembled and used as a framing hammer, or utilized to prop up the corner of a very large building.

It would appear that every load was a squib (or at least very light), which is quite fortunate - I'd hate to see what would happen if a full-house load was discharged into a plugged barrel.

 

[gathert]

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I'm thinking that was done on purpose to show the strength of their revolver. There is no way someone would keep shooting their gun after the second squib because they would be able to tell something was not right. But thats just my guess.

 

[robescc]

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I have seen that before. It was an old .38 special that a friend of mine has. I guess his kids filled it just like that. He replaced the barrel and then they did it again. They should have thrown the ammo away.

 

[Bigshooter42]

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That's pretty wild. I don't know if I would have the nuts to keep sending one down the pipe like that.

 

[pdogsbeware]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Eric Bryant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">At least it was a Ruger, so the pistol can reassembled and used as a framing hammer, or utilized to prop up the corner of a very large building.

It would appear that every load was a squib (or at least very light), which is quite fortunate - I'd hate to see what would happen if a full-house load was discharged into a plugged barrel. </div></div>
I can't remember where I read it, but I got a chuckle out of it. Rugers are heavy son's of mamas, but for a reason. As the writer put it, "You could bury a ruger in your back yard, and a million years from now a highly evolved, upright walking cockroach will dig it up, and proceed to blow the thorax off of another highly evolved, upright cockroach."

 

[jwSubMOA]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: gathert</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm thinking that was done on purpose to show the strength of their revolver. There is no way someone would keep shooting their gun after the second squib because they would be able to tell something was not right. But thats just my guess. </div></div>

I used to work for one of the major ammo manufacturers. We did rimfire in our plant. The ladies that did the QC testing would do this on regular basis. They didn't know the difference in sound, they would just shoot them as fast as they could. I lost count of how many S&W K22 Masterpieces I had to rebarrel or cut down to get behind a bulge.