he's lucky there wasn't more damage to the weapon AND himself. I have not used the ammo you mention but I hate any type of light loads. I'm glad the boys are OK. I'll bet both will be a little more attentive to loads that don't feel quite right from now on. It only takes seeing something like that once to really get your attention. I was shooting with a guy that was using some of his hand loads and for some reason was loading light. He had a squib and was about to fire again when several of us about dove on him. I've been around for a couple KB situations and hope to never see one again. Whenever I hear about one it makes me take pause.

Again. I'm am happy to hear the guys were not hurt. Shooting is a great sport/activity. But we have to be careful and always pay attention. I hope that thew new shooter was not put off by the experience.

I haven't fired any of this particular ammo, but I don't think it is a "reduced" load. When my son Mike explained the incident I understood Micah was comparing it to the Star PD or even the previous box of this same ammo. It seems that as a new shooter he at least recognized a difference in how the gun felt when it "squibbed" and then began to stack slugs in the barrel, but in his inexperience didn't know what to make of it. And my son didn't see any obvious problems with the pistol and assumed the same. I began shooting in 1958 and reloading in 1995, and I've had a couple of "duds" and "squibs", usually in cold (<30 deg.) weather. In every case the firearm was checked for bullet in barrel and cleared if needed. But, this is the first I've actually seen with factory ammo, except old rimfire and it typical doesn't fire at all. In our club's last "military bolt rifle match" I was using for "fowlers" some lead bullet ammo that I had loaded to check accuracy and one failed to fire and left the bullet and unburned powder in the bore/chamber of my Mosin when I extracted the case. I punched it out and kept on with the match. My son Mike was also shooting the match and I took a second to show Him the mess and warn about the danger of this very thing.