“On the other hand, it might have gone all the way in to a .40 S&W chamber, as you can see on the image to the left (again a Euro CIP max-dimensions diagram. It seems likely an A23 would drop all the way in a .40 chamber. As batteries generally lack extraction grooves, it could be an unacceptably tense moment or two in a real-world gunfight. “
I wonder what are the possibilities of chambering the battery and getting a dead short across the terminals when the hammer drops or the slide goes into battery.
July 14th, 2015 at 8:24 pm
So did he check his flashlight for a 9 mm round after that?
July 14th, 2015 at 9:53 pm
Something new every day….
July 14th, 2015 at 10:41 pm
“On the other hand, it might have gone all the way in to a .40 S&W chamber, as you can see on the image to the left (again a Euro CIP max-dimensions diagram. It seems likely an A23 would drop all the way in a .40 chamber. As batteries generally lack extraction grooves, it could be an unacceptably tense moment or two in a real-world gunfight. “
I wonder what are the possibilities of chambering the battery and getting a dead short across the terminals when the hammer drops or the slide goes into battery.
Can you say “spot-weld”??
July 14th, 2015 at 11:37 pm
Or, it goes in deep, the gun goes click, Magoo racks in a (real) round, and…
Can you say “hand grenade”?