Video What happened here? Ka-boom.

[Bongo Lewi]

Same gun here. There's nothing bad to report about this Tisas 1911. Except the emblem on the grip panel fell out. It's a very good replica of the 1911A1. No frills. Parkerized. The only thing changed on this gun is I use Wilson Combat mags.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

If installed this way, the slide won’t move rearward enough to chamber a round. I’m leaning more towards squib. The slide is definitely bulged under the ejection port. That and crap falling out of the magwell.

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The slide looks canted to me. Hard to tell for sure because the video resolution sucks.

Agree that a view of the disassembled gun is in order. I'm sticking with mechanical failure caused by pilot error vs. squib.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

I don't think that's coming from the muzzle, as crazy as it sounds. The shape of the fireball is not consistent with a muzzle blast... to me.

I slowed it down to .25X. And these are the two consecutive frame grabs. What's weird is the very flat side of the fireball in the consecutive frames.

Muzzle blast is usually observable when the barrel is flat. In the 2nd frame the gun is already in recoil / muzzle flip.

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If there was a squib, none of the hot gas would be moving left to right as indicated in the right pic. Notice the muzzle flip. The pic on the left appears to be is gas escaping aft after the projectile left the barrel. Right to left.

It looks to me there's flame coming out both ends of the gun. At the time of ignition, if the gun were functioning correctly the slide would have moved rearward. A squib would have violently sent that slide rearward. It doesnt appear to move at all.

 

[BeerHunter]

The slide looks canted to me. Hard to tell for sure because the video resolution sucks.

Agree that a view of the disassembled gun is in order. I'm sticking with mechanical failure caused by pilot error vs. squib.

I can't see a "squib" causing that, unless there was a projectile already lodged in the barrel from a previously fired "squib" round.

Another thing that may be a problem here for us observing a low-res video and trying to guess at the cause(s) might be optical illusion issues with digital photography:

View: https://youtu.be/wUXl56fqCrI

 

[FrankenGlock]

100% squib on squib action. That’s what it does.

 

[bkbrno]

I can't go through it frame by frame with proper video software. I think the squared off flash is due to the weird way the camera records each frame. Video works similar to film but not the same. Could be AI generated?
Sliding back and forth, trying to see as much as possible, I can only see about 4 frames from trigger pull to dropping it. In one frame there is a bright streak going down and right.

Just not enough frames captured to determine what happened. The slide never moved is all I can tell. That doesn't make sense. Out of battery, it would move. Squib, it would move. Double charge, it would move.

I'm smelling AI generated bullshit.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

I can't see a "squib" causing that, unless there was a projectile already lodged in the barrel from a previously fire "squib" round.

Another thing that may be a problem here for us observing a low-res video and trying to guess at the cause(s) might be optical illusion issues with digital photography:

View: https://youtu.be/wUXl56fqCrI

No No No. That helicopter is powered by magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters that came from alien technology discovered in the pyramids at Giza. Those rotors are just for show.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

I can't go through it frame by frame with proper video software. I think the squared off flash is due to the weird way the camera records each frame. Video works similar to film but not the same. Could be AI generated?
Sliding back and forth, trying to see as much as possible, I can only see about 4 frames from trigger pull to dropping it. In one frame there is a bright streak going down and right.

Just not enough frames captured to determine what happened. The slide never moved is all I can tell. That doesn't make sense. Out of battery, it would move. Squib, it would move. Double charge, it would move.

I'm smelling AI generated bullshit.

Possible. The unmoving side is the key to whatever this is. One hesitation I have about it being AI generated is the slide stop shearing and flying off the gun. That's a minor, obscure detail AI would not have added. The blasts/flash... easily faked.

For the record... a Squib, also known as a wizard-born, was a non-magical person who was born to at least one magical parent. Squibs were, in essence, "wizard-born Muggles". They were rare and were looked upon with a degree of disdain by some witches and wizards, particularly pure-bloods. Muggle-born witches and wizards were believed to be descended from Squibs who married Muggles, introducing the potential for magical ability into the bloodline, thus a few generations later a wizard would be born to two Muggles.

I hope this clears things up.

 

[Notshawn54]

Possible. The unmoving side is the key to whatever this is. One hesitation I have about it being AI generated is the slide stop shearing and flying off the gun. That's a minor, obscure detail AI would not have added. The blasts/flash... easily faked.

For the record... a Squib, also known as a wizard-born, was a non-magical person who was born to at least one magical parent. Squibs were, in essence, "wizard-born Muggles". They were rare and were looked upon with a degree of disdain by some witches and wizards, particularly pure-bloods. Muggle-born witches and wizards were believed to be descended from Squibs who married Muggles, introducing the potential for magical ability into the bloodline, thus a few generations later a wizard would be born to two Muggles.

I hope this clears things up.

Yeah, I’m gonna need my wife to decipher this. She’s a Harry Potter nerd. I haven’t read the books or seen any of the movies. Small kids with British accents freak me out.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

Yeah, I’m gonna need my wife to decipher this. She’s a Harry Potter nerd. I haven’t read the books or seen any of the movies. Small kids with British accents freak me out.

Cant say I'm a fan of HP. My son was. Me... I just watched the films and were always rooting for Golum.

As far as Brits go.... Like Popeye says, "I can't stands 'em." First hand experience.

 

[bkbrno]

The flash you see is all around in a ball. I see light around the mag well but not much. The mag did not blow out. I've seen a ka'boom in a Glock. The flash was very directional and funneled. The mag ejected violently. I've seen video of a revolver letting go. The flash in this video looks closer to that.

I'm sticking with an AI manipulation. Obviously a 1911 overlayed onto something else like a revolver.

 

[FrankenGlock]

Plastic Glock mag release is not strong. A metal one from a 1911 is strong. Lots of videos online that show the KB caused by shooting another round after a squib round. Looks exactly like this one.

I too had one in a Glock but luckily it just caused the barrel to bulge, and the gun did not cycle again. Was in a G23L. Glad it just ruined the barrel and nothing else.

I typically shoot rapidly into one ragged hole at 50 yards so I did not notice, and my eyesight is getting worse as I age.

 

[Notshawn54]

I saw the aftermath of double charged 10mm fired in 1911. Blew out the magazine and cracked the grips. The mags will blow out. In this video I don’t think there was a mag in place, but you can see parts of something come out. Maybe the blown apart shell casing?

 

[BeerHunter]

100% squib on squib action. That’s what it does.

Don't you mean normal round fired into a squib round that lodged in the barrel? Otherwise your "100% squib on squib action" comment doesn't really make sense. Two successive squib rounds; what are the odds?

 

[Bobster]

Could be AI generated?
I'm smelling AI generated bullshit.

THIS!!! ^^^^

 

[Bobster]

As far as Brits go.... Like Popeye says, "I can't stands 'em." First hand experience.

+1 on this. And for any Brits reading this: You're a bloody cunt! (they'll know what I mean... )

 

[Bongo Lewi]

The crime scene reveals some aluminum cased ammo and some S&B. All 45ACP. The S&B appears new. Nobody reloads or hand loads aluminum. The percentage of gun owners who reload is in the single digits. The number of incompetent reloaders among them is also in the single digits. I think we can rule out overpressure.

It is plausible that the reason the slide doesn’t move is because it’s an AI fake. As BKB mentions, the blast pattern is unusual. However, the 45 ammo and slide lock is a fine detail AI probably wouldn’t add. The bloody finger on the left hand from the slide lock blowing off is another reason to question this being AI.

I struggle with the squib theory. Mainly because in an entire lifetime I have yet to experience this. A hundred different guns and hundreds of thousands of rounds fired. Not.Even.Once. Squibs and failures from overpressure are the product of incompetent hand loading. An extremely dirty barrel can cause a squib. Squibs happen but it is extremely rare.

Catastrophic gun failures are like nerds and sex. They talk about it all the time but it rarely comes from experience. Jerking off to internet porn is not sex. The chances of a squib are about the same as being hit by lightning on a Tuesday at 2:03 pm as you run away from the plane crash you survived.

The chances of a newb fucking up a gun after taking it apart is as common as nerds jerking off to internet porn.

It's human nature for some people to get a boner over a problem - or even invent problems - because makes them feel important when they explain how they fixed it. Like how an arsonist wants to become a firefighter.

Just guessing but Pugsly in the video … his girlfriend is Rosy Palm.

Occam’s Razor.

 

[FrankenGlock]

Don't you mean normal round fired into a squib round that lodged in the barrel? Otherwise your "100% squib on squib action" comment doesn't really make sense. Two successive squib rounds; what are the odds?

Yes, it was a squib fired into another squib. The first squib is a dud round so it wouldn't be fire and brimstone, but the second round is what does the damage and the KB you see on the video.

 

[Bongo Lewi]

I watched this yet again and will posit another theory:

a. The S&B Ammo in the background could be 10mm, not 45ACP.
b. He was shooting two guns that day.
c. He inadvertently feeds a 10mm round into that Tisas 1911 (45ACP).

Hard to be certain, but the S&B ammo appears slightly taller and thinner than the squatty 45ACP.

That would be the opposite of a squib. It would be a biuqs. A round with no chance of getting stuck.

 

[Racer88]

Yes, it was a squib fired into another squib. The first squib is a dud round so it wouldn't be fire and brimstone, but the second round is what does the damage and the KB you see on the video.

But the 2nd round isn't a "squib," if it's full-powered. The dud / underloaded round just pushes the bullet, which is the actual "squib," into the barrel but not out. The next, full-powered round isn't a "squib." It provides the ka-boom because it's blocked by the squib.

I've never heard of the 2nd round that causes the explosion referred to as a "squib."