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Steve. I run brass through Lee Bulge Buster before I ever put them on progressive and plunk test every round. When you ran them through the bulge buster, did you feel anything out of whack as they passed through the sizing ring? I mean were some hard to resize at first and then got easy then hard again as the casehead went through the ring in a jittery sort of way? I toss those cases. You know, that's one of the tips I picked up here. I'll be more attentive next time.

Sorry, not trying to poo poo your posts. But, as you might imagine, I've been over every possible root cause about 100k times over the past few weeks. I appreciate your comments as well as those of the other experienced shooters and reloaders on this forum. Thanks very much.

Steve. I run brass through Lee Bulge Buster before I ever put them on progressive and plunk test every round.

Thanks guys. I do change springs, but not my recoil spring. The gun had around 700-800 rounds, mostly mid to low range reloads, before the incident.

Steve, thanks. Soooooo, the $100 question is how to prevent OOB?

I get the same feeling when pushing through the Lee Bulge Buster. I size brass in a single stage before ever putting it through the progressive.

For future reference, what did you tell them happened that they just replaced it? The truth. Reloads and all.

Kentucky is a great place! No FFL required. Next day air to Glock ($50) and they sent directly to me! Haven't shot it yet, maybe tomorrow. Functions test are all AOK.

It's fixed and returned. I called and honestly explained the incident to them and paid $100 for a frame replacement and pistol inspection.

Thanks for the comments. I'll definitely do some data collection to ensure it's not a drop problem. BTW. Fired 150 prior to incident and have pulled another 150 from the same lot of 400, and haven't found an over or under charge. As stated before I do plunk test every round. Any tight fits go straight to the disassembly coffee can. +1 you could have double charged it in your checking powder process. do you use a crono after you wip up a load? what reloader are you using? I'm sure you know, but .40's are hot already. Power pistol is on the slow side and can get closeto the velocity you are looking for and easy to spot a double charge. and correct me if I'm wrong but is not Berry's lead plated & treated like lead bullets? That is what I got on my press now... Keep us informed what Glock Services has to say and what your next loads that you run through the G35 I too am curious on why this has happen.. Good luck be safe &.glad your okay.. I use a Lee Pro 1000 with the micro disc powder measure. I try to stay away from "stick" powders as I've read about metering problems with the Pro 1000 Auto Disc. Again, I use the micro disc. Thanks

Well, I got my G35 Gen4 back from Glock today with a new frame. I'm very pleased with Glock's solution to the problem. It's interesting that they returned my aftermarket springs and connector in a Ziploc bag, but replaced the Gen3 trigger bar I had in the pistol with another Gen3 trigger bar. I'm looking forward to shooting tomorrow morning at Bud's Indoor Range. I'll start again with factory ammo and see what happens.

I was honest with the gentleman on the phone and asked if anything could be done with the gun. I'll certainly adopt some better practices and not ask them again for help as a result of my mistakes.

Well, I thought I got what was bad news in a phone message from Glock yesterday. However, after a follow up, Glock has VERY generously agreed to replace the frame on my G35 and return it to me. The frame will have a different serial number, but it's a shooter anyway. Thanks everyone for your help and guidance! Woo Hoo!!!

Nope. Took me forever to find 4cyl/5 sp regular cab 4x4 with factory buckets! Never gonna sell it!

You're right Sarge. I thought I was having a bad day last week and then watched the video for "Free" by Zac Brown Band, which was filmed at a USO show in Balad. I'm a lucky dude.

You're right. I would've felt terrible had the extractor chunked someone in the face. It was a lucky day.

Ha! I'm 47 but have the defensive skills of a 60 year old. Slow and deliberate, with an escape route at all times (she happened to want my route, too). Hopefully the Tacoma will be good as new and ready for another 135k miles soon. Accident tore the $#|* out of her car but the Tacoma motored on home. Whew. USAA is all over it now.

Thanks Poppa Bear. You've hit the nail on the head. What really sucks is that I blew up my gun on Saturday and just now arrived home from being in an accident with a crazy woman who believes that all words are more effective at 120 dB. I'm ok, truck's fixable, and she's still a lunatic.

There is brass and bullet there though, right? And, the bullet is not at the front of the chamber, the base of it is back at the mouth of the chamber? Flex The bullet exited the barrel. Only the case remained in the weapon. Is that indicative of a particular type of failure. There's another post about comparison to other either Over charges cases or OOB and I don't know the answer. Can you help? Thanks

Thanks for the comments. I'll definitely do some data collection to ensure it's not a drop problem. BTW. Fired 150 prior to incident and have pulled another 150 from the same lot of 400, and haven't found an over or under charge. As stated before I do plunk test every round. Any tight fits go straight to the disassembly coffee can.

Gonna put my grown up britches on and bow out of this one. Thanks for the constructive comments.

Roger got it. I didn't infer in any way that it was the gun's issue. I'm hoping, not expecting, help from a company I've done business with for 17 years. Wouldn't you do the same?

Because I'm cautious and my only powder drop problem (as described above) was undercharged cases when I first began reloading. I wasn't pushing the handle/raising the ram completely and the micro disc didn't get completely over the powder drop through die.

No Flex. That is the remaining case after the rim was ripped/blown off. FWIW, there was no imprint of head stamp on the face of the "bolt"( for lack of a better term).

I learned from my folks that if you don't have something good to say, don't say anything. You're welcome to use this as you probably never learned it.