A Cautionary Tale

[Gary Cain]

This is an example of why you sould ALLWAYS be very careful of who you buy ammunition from. This barrel came from a 1921 TSMG made by Colt and worth at the time about 10k. The individual involved recently passed away so I don't mind showing his mistake as it will no longer embarass him.
Any way he was allways buying reloaded ammunition from the gun shows in the area and I allways told him to be extremely careful from whom he was buying. Needless to say he wasn't so brought his TSMG in for me to rebarrel for him. I did so and kept the evidence. That mistake cost him (at the time 5,000 USD) just because he was cheap and didn't want to pay for good ammo. The 5k is the amount the TSMG dropped in value do to the rebarreling.

Please pay attention to this!

[Gary Cain]

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This is an example of why you sould ALLWAYS be very careful of who you buy ammunition from. This barrel came from a 1921 TSMG made by Colt and worth at the time about 10k. The individual involved recently passed away so I don't mind showing his mistake as it will no longer embarass him.
Any way he was allways buying reloaded ammunition from the gun shows in the area and I allways told him to be extremely careful from whom he was buying. Needless to say he wasn't so brought his TSMG in for me to rebarrel for him. I did so and kept the evidence. That mistake cost him (at the time 5,000 USD) just because he was cheap and didn't want to pay for good ammo. The 5k is the amount the TSMG dropped in value do to the rebarreling.

Please pay attention to this!

[reidmuller]

Ouch i was actually thinking today would if you put to little powder in the case would the round be to slow to make it out of the barrel and i geuss this ansews it or is it because of something else??

[Gary Cain]

Nope! You got it! They are called "squib" rounds and they destroy a lot of good weapons every year.


Gary

Ouch i was actually thinking today would if you put to little powder in the case would the round be to slow to make it out of the barrel and i geuss this ansews it or is it because of something else??

[coastie]

Seen a Thompson barrel stuffed full of bullets till it wouldn't feed anymore in. The first bullet was 2" from the muzzle. Very sobering

[Gary Cain]

Yep! I have seen it happen with more TSMG's than any other type of SM.











G

Seen a Thompson barrel stuffed full of bullets till it wouldn't feed anymore in. The first bullet was 2" from the muzzle. Very sobering

[Don D.]

It says alot about the robustness of the barrel. I've seen guns actually blowout and send bits of metal flying around.

[phosphateb]

This is a classic example of "stupid hurts". Lets see buy reload bad ammo 3000 rounds for 200.00. Blow barrel minus 5000.00. = -5,200.00 BUy manufactured ammo, $1,000 for 6000 rounds, plus the barrel you didnt blow up, 10,000 minus 1,000 for good ammo. A delta of 9,000 verses 4,800 dollars. Save 700 dollars on ammo and lose 4,200.00 for F*&^) up your smg. He must of been good in math

[Captain Emo]

This happens all the time. I have been guilty of it too. I once bought 1000 rounds of .223 that were "reloaded" but the powder was left out. The primers worked though.

[roughshooter]

Gary,

I am am sorry that your friend is no longer around but boy...he could have been gone much sooner....hats off to the strength of that barrel but just looking at it makes me wince....ouch.

Regards Craig.

[Gary Cain]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for your thoughts! This is not uncommon with SMG's. The only time you really have to worry about getting hurt is if it's a rifle, a rifle caliber MG, a 12 gauge with a twenty gauge up the pipe first, or a M-16 series that fires out of battery......very bad!


Gary

Gary,

I am am sorry that your friend is no longer around but boy...he could have been gone much sooner....hats off to the strength of that barrel but just looking at it makes me wince....ouch.

Regards Craig.