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Happened to catch this guy reviewing a new Colt Python and he fires a squib load....doesn't notice and fires another which somehow kicks it out the barrel! You can notice the difference in the next shot with 2 bullets and wonder what that pressure was. Colt must make a tough barrel and lucky it was a 38 Special round and not a Magnum! Would be interesting to measure the bore and check for bulge.
If you ever notice a drastic change in the sound of a fired round...STOP and check it out. It has happened to me before in 38 Special.

Watch at about 2:50 in the video. https://youtu.be/PgkrQREQeBY?si=Ys1Nj7flJeDL0_lN

Was he seriously that unaware? Candidate for a Darwin award there.

Id like to see the inside of the barrel after doing that. Im betting some of the rifling is now damaged

As a gun reviewer I’d be ashamed to post the video. He was so focused on producing his video he was oblivious to the squid. Actually it might have been his day to buy a lottery ticket.

Paul

Was it a squib or a fail to fire?

He seemed to blink on the sqib but went ahead with the next round anyway. I am definitely not adding him to a list of reviewers to follow.

I couldn't hear anything when he fired that round, did see a small puff of smoke near the hammer and the next round sounded different from the first rounds he fired. He said " My first Squib load also. luckily it had enough to still go down range so I confidently shot another." Sure didn't look like it in the video but maybe he saw it hit??. Judging by the ear plugs he was wearing I don't see how he couldn't hear that there was virtually no noise from the shot in question.

Hard to tell but I didn't see any smoke come out of the barrel on that squib round. Wonder how well those little ear bud things dampen the noise?
Had my Ruger Police Service Six 357 out couple days ago and that thing is loud but still shoots very well!

dave77 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:41 pm

I couldn't hear anything when he fired that round, did see a small puff of smoke near the hammer and the next round sounded different from the first rounds he fired. He said " My first Squib load also. luckily it had enough to still go down range so I confidently shot another." Sure didn't look like it in the video but maybe he saw it hit??. Judging by the ear plugs he was wearing I don't see how he couldn't hear that there was virtually no noise from the shot in question.

Where did he say it was his first squib? I only watched the first three minutes or so, but after reading your post, I went back and suffered through the rest! I read the comments too, and there was not a single mention of the squib. Everyone was too upset by the 3 vents and claiming Colt had “ruined it”.

There is definitely smoke visible on the squib shot, but the shot immediately after definitely did not sound the same as the first few. Why he didn’t stop shooting immediately after not hearing a proper shot on the squib is unreal. He should have emptied the gun, and checked the barrel before firing another shot. Total dumbass move…

Had a friend fill the barrel of a Smith model 10. I didn't see the squib, but I started to notice something didn't sound quite right. By the time I said something, he had emptied the cylinder. Later, he cleared the barrel and used that Smith for several years afterwards.

Yep not impressed with this guy.

Redthies wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:02 am

dave77 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:41 pm

I couldn't hear anything when he fired that round, did see a small puff of smoke near the hammer and the next round sounded different from the first rounds he fired. He said " My first Squib load also. luckily it had enough to still go down range so I confidently shot another." Sure didn't look like it in the video but maybe he saw it hit??. Judging by the ear plugs he was wearing I don't see how he couldn't hear that there was virtually no noise from the shot in question.

Where did he say it was his first squib? I only watched the first three minutes or so, but after reading your post, I went back and suffered through the rest! I read the comments too, and there was not a single mention of the squib. Everyone was too upset by the 3 vents and claiming Colt had “ruined it”.

There is definitely smoke visible on the squib shot, but the shot immediately after definitely did not sound the same as the first few. Why he didn’t stop shooting immediately after not hearing a proper shot on the squib is unreal. He should have emptied the gun, and checked the barrel before firing another shot. Total dumbass move…

It was in the brief description between the video and the comments. He said "(My first Squib load also. luckily it had enough to still go down range so I confidently shot another.) "

That's why I thought he may have seen the bullet hit the target or the ground which we wouldn't see in the video.

I have a Dan Wesson revolver that I bought back when I first started to shoot handguns. The sales guy I liked at that shop told me that they were having a Dan Wesson Day, and some reps would be there with their stuff. I went to the shop that day and the DW people had three different barrels that they milled in half as display items, all completely filled with bullets. One of them, an 8" barrel if I remember correctly, had 13 or 14, and we all commented that whoever did that had to have reloaded his cylinder three times to get that many bullets stuck in the barrel. I'm not sure I'd have believed it if I didn't see it myself. One of the DW guys said he thought the guy shot until a bullet blocked the rotation of the cylinder, which is when he stopped. Pretty scary stuff.

I have a buddy that had a 200 grain lead bullet get stuck in the barrel of his 1911. Just a light bullseye load, but he felt it and stopped when he realized it was still in the barrel. He brought the gun home and the next day pushed that bullet out. After clearing that bullet, you could feel where it was when pushing a patch through the barrel, it must have swelled or something and there was a very noticeable "loose spot" you could feel. The gun still shot well enough, and he used it for another year before an armorer at Camp Perry looked through and saw it, and gave him a new barrel.