{"id":28386,"date":"2024-12-21T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=28386"},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T02:36:36","slug":"exnotes-review-shooting-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/exnotes-review-shooting-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"ExNotes Review:  Shooting Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n<p>Mike Venturino was one of the greatest gun writers who ever lived.\u00a0 Whenever I&#8217;d see his byline in a gun magazine, I would carefully read every word in the accompanying article.\u00a0 He was a guy who wrote about things that exactly matched my interests:\u00a0 Handguns, rifles, military surplus weaponry, reloading, reloading for accuracy, and more.\u00a0 His style was relaxed and friendly, and his writing was easy to follow and understand.\u00a0 I felt like I knew the guy, even though we had never met.\u00a0 His writing style, I&#8217;m sure, influenced mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shooting-Iron-Bustin-Musings-Venturino\/dp\/B0D8R1MZLM\/ref=nosim?tag=exhaustnotes-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28388\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Duke001-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Duke001-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Duke001-300-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mike Venturino passed away recently, and FMG Publications assembled a collection of his articles originally published in American Handgunner magazine.\u00a0 As soon as I heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shooting-Iron-Bustin-Musings-Venturino\/dp\/B0D8R1MZLM\/ref=nosim?tag=exhaustnotes-20\">Shooting Iron<\/a>, I ordered a couple of copies on Amazon (one for me, and one for a good friend).\u00a0 If you like good writing, good storytelling, and all things firearms related, I think you should pick up a copy, too.\u00a0 You can order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shooting-Iron-Bustin-Musings-Venturino\/dp\/B0D8R1MZLM\/ref=nosim?tag=exhaustnotes-20\">Shooting Iron<\/a>\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<p>As I read through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shooting-Iron-Bustin-Musings-Venturino\/dp\/B0D8R1MZLM\/ref=nosim?tag=exhaustnotes-20\">Shooting Iron<\/a>, I came across two descriptions in which Venturino described blowing up a 9mm handgun.\u00a0 You may recall that I did the same, and I shared that experience with you here and here.\u00a0 Based on what Venturino wrote and what I experienced, I am rethinking my 9mm 1911 Springfield blow up.\u00a0 I previously concluded that I must have had a double charge in one of the cartridges (particularly because I was using a new turret press).\u00a0 Now I am thinking that wasn\u2019t it at all, but it was instead the bullet being pushed back into the case.\u00a0 This is based on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>I was using powder coated Gardner bullets, which are very slippery.\u00a0 It&#8217;s would have been easy to push one of them back into the case if the crimp was not strong.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t know if I had a really tight crimp when I loaded the round that burst.\u00a0 I use a very strong crimp now.\u00a0 Back then, I don\u2019t know if I did.<\/li>\n<li>I checked about 1500 cartridges after that event (ones I had previously loaded but not fired) by pulling them apart and examining the charge.\u00a0 None were double charged.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t prove I didn\u2019t double charge one, but it suggests it was unlikely.<\/li>\n<li>In reading the articles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shooting-Iron-Bustin-Musings-Venturino\/dp\/B0D8R1MZLM\/ref=nosim?tag=exhaustnotes-20\">Shooting Iron<\/a>, I found where Venturino describes the 9mm bullet pushback phenomenon in two places (when you buy your copy, take a look at Pages 32 and 63).\u00a0 On Page 32, he describes this having occurred with a 9mm round, and he shows a burst case that looks just like mine.\u00a0 He further describes this episode with \u201c\u2026the escaping gas spitting (he probably meant splitting) the two grip panels and stinging my hand.\u201d That\u2019s precisely what I experienced.\u00a0 On Page 63, Venturino shows a burst case that looks like my case.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if the two instances described in the book are the same event.\u00a0 They both sound like what I experienced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bottom line is I don\u2019t know exactly what happened when I blew up my 9mm 1911 and I never will.\u00a0 But after reading Mike Venturino&#8217;s\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shooting-Iron-Bustin-Musings-Venturino\/dp\/B0D8R1MZLM\/ref=nosim?tag=exhaustnotes-20\">Shooting Iron<\/a> experiences, I am 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