Death of a .45

Me blowing the barrel of my .45 Springfield 1911. You can see the burst of flame on my 4th shot. The gun jammed on the 5th shot with a bulged barrel. Recoil on that shot was intense as the slide did not move at all. I now have a new LNL AP press to replace the Lee 1000 that I had been using.
I also went to a Tanfogilio LC in .40 a few weeks later. The 1911 now has a new barrel and is doing well.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• run and gun
• USPSA
• IPSC
• COLT
• 1911
• BLOW
• SQUIB
• ACP
• Springfield
• National Match

[cptexas1]

I'm late to the video but what was the cause? The slide "jammed"? What the *&%?

[EESASTORM]

@cptexas1 Barrel expanded into the side........................do­uble charge of powder will do that.



[cauterful]

somehow i don't believe that it took a SLEDGE HAMMER to free the barrel. A good gun smith yes. A sledge hammer!!! really? I don't think so. And if you did use a sledge hammer your an idiot.



[EESASTORM]

@cauterful Did I say an 8 lb sledge?

nope.........

There are all sorts of sledge hammers out there............and that is all we had at the time to clear it.

That makes YOU the idiot I guess.

[EESASTORM]

@frankthebricklayer

Well considering that it ended up requiring a SLEDGE HAMMER to break the barrel free the answe is YES!!

[hemiram1988]

Dont overload on powder.

[cavifl45]

Range officer: " that ain't good"

lol

[Irish16King]

I would have cried if I was him

[kingcoapa]

+P+ = "+o+"

[disturbedone5009]

@Cozmolyne

I would be happier if the entire firearm was USA made but it still held up fine. Besides, Springfield Armory is a private company that bought the name. It is not the same Springfield Armory that built firearms for the US armed forces.

[Cozmolyne]

@disturbedone5009

Hey now, I'm not dissing 1911's, they're my favorite pistols and I hate Glock fanboys with a passion. I'm just not comfortable with the frame being made in country with lower quality standards. I also guess I'm a bit pissed a Springfield, a maker of some of the finest firearms in American history, would go low and outsource.

[disturbedone5009]

@Cozmolyne

So you wouldn't buy a firearm that held up even though it was fed a double charge? If that was a Glock you would be digging plastic out of your hand.

[LoneWolfVideography]

what springfield did you have?

[Cozmolyne]

This is why I don't buy stuff made in developing countries.