Hand loads becomes a handful

[03clyde]

First try at posting photos - got this from a retired LEO friend who said the gun's owner was very lucky - I agree. Model 629 (?).

 

[sw44spl]

Id say very lucky

 

[jbouwens]

Man, that is a-- count the fingers, eyes, ears, face, toes, how many pounds of number 2 is in the pants event. Sure glad the human is o.k.-- the gun CAN be replaced.

 

[Wee Hooker]

If I were a betting man, I'd wager that somebody tried making their hand loads milder/more manageable by using less magnum powder. The magnum hand gun failures I've seen up close ( 4?) came from this common ( and careless) mistake.

 

[flat top]

...........or, a double charge of a light load of a fast burning powder.

 

[HAWKEYE10]

What ever the cause it ruined a nice gun. Plus maybe
hurt some one. Don

 

[nightshade2x]

Latest news on this calls it out as a hoax:

KABOOM....Another Ouchy, S&W 629.

 

[500 Magnum Nut]

Nice tread over there.

They bash S&W as junk. They bash stainless steel guns as weak.
I guess internet firearm experts they are not.

 

[DCWilson]

Latest news on this calls it out as a hoax:

KABOOM....Another Ouchy, S&W 629.

The explosion was real. The phoniness over at Gun and Game was that the original poster there implied it was his gun and his story.

I tracked these pictures down. The earliest posting I have found anywhere on the Internet was posted 8/31/09: Why you should be careful when reloading.......... - Sniper's Hide Forums

The poster, JTrue, seems to be an Alaska Trooper based in Soldotna named Jim Truesdale. I am confident that this is the original internet post of these images because the photobucket account linked to the post includes images that were never posted in any of the later forum postings elsewhere on the web. It seems like this post was ignored for six weeks, then went viral on all the gun forums in the space of about a week starting around 10/19/09.

The text of the circulating email that includes three or four of the Truesdale photos seems to be the text of JTrue's original post on Sniper's Hide.

So I conclude: real blow-up, admitted "new load" being tested by shooter, nobody reported seriously injured, happened in the Kenai Peninsula sometime before late August, testified to by AK Trooper posting on a professional board.

 

[The Clever Set]

From our very own forum. These pics are all over the net in about every gun forum.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-amp;...-think-ya-used-bit-too-much-powder-butch.html

 

[Outrider]

Insert a great movie quote

First try at posting photos - got this from a retired LEO friend who said the gun's owner was very lucky - I agree. Model 629 (?).

"Think you used enough dynamite, there, Butch?"