Exploded 10mm Nighthawk 1911

[Olgo]

It'll buff out. 

But seriously, if it was a squib there'd be a bulge in the barrel where bullets collide. This looks to me an overcharge.

[sqlbullet]

It is confirmed a squib by the mfg.

[Mike_Fontenot]

[...] he was shooting double taps just couldn't stop because he was into the cadence and multiple targets.

Sounds like a good reason to never do doubletaps!

[sqlbullet]

A squid that creates a bore obstruction won't cycle the gun. This a double tap is not possible.

Based on the makers inspection, a bore obstruction was the cause, which calls this account into suspicion.

[DM1906]

[...] he was shooting double taps just couldn't stop because he was into the cadence and multiple targets.

Sounds like a good reason to never do doubletaps!

This is only a factor with a revolver, or a manually cycled semi-auto. As SQL pointed out, and as I did before, if the bullet doesn't exit the bore, the action doesn't cycle.

[DM1906]

Something else that should be noted is, within a few days of this original post, and the original linked post at TFB, the original TFB post narrative, content, and photos have been extensively edited, with several deletions of text and photos. Those entering this discussion late will not have a full take on the facts, and course of events. Of the photos originally posted, only ONE of them, the photo of the underside, is an original photo BEFORE the "gunsmith" severely molested the pistol, previously reported, in an attempt to disassemble the pistol and remove the spent case. The case, prior to said molestation, was essentially intact, except for the split-line corresponding with the 12 and 6 O'clock chamber/barrel split. The original images, which are now MIA, clearly showed NO indication of case head deformation or case web bulge at the feed ramp area. The Nighthawk respondent stated this was clearly a case of a squib, followed by a "normal" round fired. To speculate that a factory squib was followed by a factory overcharge, is simply absurd, in that, it is simply improbable to impossible. Keep in mind, the original post at TFB was a second hand account that was experienced by a "friend" of the OP, without the prior knowledge of the person(s) who experienced the event. At this point, I suggest anyone entering late in the discussion to consider the original post at TFB no more credible than fiction, with no informed responses after about May 31, which, according to the responses, was about the time of the edits. I did not save the original images, so you'll just have to take my word for it, or not. If, by chance, one of you DID save the images, it may be a service to all of us if they were posted here, or otherwise made available.