WT_Foxtrot
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Last week a friend and I had been practicing drawing from concealment and double tapping a target. He was shooting a Glock 43. On his next draw, the gun didn't fre. He racked the slide and an empty case ejected. He said, "Didn't eject, that's the first time it's ever done that."
He chambered another round and the slide didn't quite go into battery. He ejected that round and I picked it up. At first I thought it was a .380 but saw that it was a 9mm but the bullet had been pushed back into the case.
I told him to hold up. I took the Glock, removed the slide, and removed the barrel. I looked into the barrel and there was a bullet just starting into the barrel. It wasn't in the barrel far enough to let the next round fully chamber. That was a good thing!
Apparently, there was no powder and the primer had just enough power to get the bullet started. Had it gone 1/8" deeper, I would be telling a different story. These were reloads.
I took a dowel and drove the bullet out and we resumed shooting, but, no double taps. From here on, we just fired single rounds at the target.
Informative post......something similar happened to me with a shotgun years ago.
Was dove hunting with an auto and shooting a buddy's reloads. Had a misfire (basically a muted "poof" sound) where nothing was fired. Ejected the dead shell and since I was young (maybe 20) and didn't know any better, just plugged in another and went on about the hunt without checking the barrel for obstruction. Next shot was dead on the bird, but he didn't flinch and it felt and sounded weird. Wasn't a second later that I noticed a bulge in the barrel about halfway from the chamber to the muzzle. Turned out the wad from the dud shell was lodged in the barrel. Just cost me a new barrel, but could have been worse.