Recover undamaged shot bullet and jacket

Seriously, guys??? Just shoot one into the air, then catch it in your hand when it comes back down. Sheesh. Easy.

Jeff

ETA, we had a bullet pass through a steel roof on a hangar and penetrate both the top and bottom skins of a fuel tank of a plane in said hangar. Didn't work out when the next pilot took off with a "known full tank" and came to grief later. (Pre-flight check is like gravity, it's not just a good idea, it's the law!).
It apparently happened on the fourth of July.

I was going to suggest something similar, but wanted him to get real answers first before I started clowning around. I've dug bullets out of roof shingles before as well.

Thanks for all the constructive comments. I still would like to post a photo showing what these particles look like but for some reason my phone is not accessing my photos. I have clicked every reference in settings that I can find. Tapatalk is not requesting access. Anyway, these particles are rather large, not like dust but easy to see and feel. No question in my mind particles this size if missing from a jacket would have to affect bullet path and accuracy.

Update: hand cycling rounds shows some scratches on the jacket but no large scars or gouges. Have not had the chance to fire a round and hand eject the next chambered round which should be more meaningful.


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Just to keep the shenanigans going in an otherwise serious thread...



Desk pop.

Then into the attic for projectile recovery.

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Originally Posted by foxtrot

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After re-reading your post and your concern is feeding up the ramp...
Why not load a primer-less, powder-less round and keep cycling it in the clean pistol using the slide release say ten or twenty times, and then examine both the round and the pistol?

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Just remember, don’t pull the trigger with a dummy round in the chamber without an old primer or the primer pocket filled with something like hard rubber, or your firing pin could become lodged in the primer’s flash hole and make it very difficult to get the gun disassembled without damaging the firing pin.

I think these particles are chunks not shavings. Anyone want to give me email address that I can send my photo and in turn somebody could post to this discussion. I don’t know what is wrong but I can’t upload to this forum. In my case 10,000 words won’t do.

Dave


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Here are a couple of pictures that the OP wanted to post up.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f0bfdc9036.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...bdb1cb71b3.jpg

Thanks to Ray for posting my photos. Not sure why I couldn’t do that myself.

Anyway, I hope the photos show that these fragments are larger than tiny scrapes or shavings. These particular pieces were in side the slide area amongst the two recoil springs, after only 25 shots, 1/2 of a box of 50. I can promise that the gun prior to this outing was fully cleaned and no such fragments existed.

Would you agree that fragments this size would have to affect the flight path of the bullet?

Dave


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Are you positive the pieces are bullet material?

I have no experience with the platform but you don’t have something in the pistol eating itself up?

I’m having trouble figuring out how pieces of the projectile could end up in the recoil spring area under normal operation.

If you want to humor me you could take a magnet to the little chunks and see if they stick. If they’re magnetic you can rule out the ammunition as the source.