oops, could have been bad!

[gatorhugger]

Range today, Brought out 2- one hundred round boxes of WWB.
And two 50 round boxes of Sellier and Bellot.
9mm.
Shot my "new" P93 I got from Cattledawg, along with my other P93.
Boy I like these guns!
And shot my Glock and my Smith.

When I only had a half box of Winchester white box left, I dumped the last 50 round Seller and Bellot in with it. Just to consolidate.
Shot a bunch of these.
After leaving range looked at my remaining ammo, and apparently that last box of 50 count Sellier and bellot I dumped in with the White box Winchester was .380.
By what was left I must have shot at least 20 of the .380 shells through the guns.
I have no idea how these guns functioned and cycled but they did.
No blow ups, no damage I can tell either.
I normally never mix ammo, but this one time, those sneaky sellier got by me. They say 9mm bc on the case stamp and the boxes of .380 and 9mm look identical.
I feel completely stupid and very lucky to not have blown up a gun today.

 

[blume357]

Don't see how you would have blown up a gun shooting .380 in a 9mm. The worse that happens is you split the case on the round... yes there is that extra pressure right at the front of the chamber, I really don't see it causing the gun to blow up.

I can't believe the guns or gun you were using cycled the .380 stuff. When I tried it once with my P95 it fired but did not eject fully, If I remember right.

Okay, gun gurus.... tell me how I'm wrong here.

 

[revhigh]

I'm with you Blume, if it DID fire, and I have no doubt that it fired, no damage would occur, I too am surprised the spent case was even extracted.

No big deal, either way ...

REV

 

[OMG]

Did the same thing with my SR9. Accidentally grabbed the .380 box. They shot but would not eject. I thought something was wrong with the pistol.

 

[ArmedinAZ]

Did the same thing with my SR9. Accidentally grabbed the .380 box. They shot but would not eject. I thought something was wrong with the pistol.

A P93 has a really soft recoil spring compared to an SR9 but wow :shock:

Another good reason to convince myself I don't need a 380.

 

[Al James]

I would give all of the chambers a good cleaning. 2MM is a larger distance when dealing with pistol chambers IMO.

 

[redsouthpaw]

I wouldn't be too worried about it. I think the worst damage you could have done is to the extractor since it would be head spaced on the extractor instead of the case mouth.

 

[waynejitsu]

Kinda like 38SP in a 357Mag,
Not exactly, just "kinda", LOL!

 

[Snake45]

I feel completely stupid and very lucky to not have blown up a gun today.

I concur with the others who said that you were almost certainly in NO danger whatever of blowing anything up. So relax on that count. :wink:

It is rather amazing that the .380s cycled the gun, however. Does S&B have a reputation for loading these hot? :?

 

[Texasgunner]

I feel completely stupid and very lucky to not have blown up a gun today.

I concur with the others who said that you were almost certainly in NO danger whatever of blowing anything up. So relax on that count. :wink:

It is rather amazing that the .380s cycled the gun, however. Does S&B have a reputation for loading these hot? :?

Shoot- now i HAVE to try 380's in my SR9 :twisted:

 

[umurtadi]

I just wish I could find some 380 and here you go shooting it through your 9

 

[gatorhugger]

They ain't real accurate I can tell you that. 10 yards and I was missing the paper entirely.