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2farnorth wrote:Look at the ejector and the extractor. One of them malfunctioned and let the empty just flip over and the slide rammed it in. And was it the last round in the mag.
Actually I would call/email HiPoint and send them the pic. They might be interested.

Was not the last round. It tried to feed a round behind it. As I said he said he had at least 300 rounds through it and he emailed me that after he got the case out (rather easily) he put 50 though it with no malfunction. I'm chalking this one up to chaos theory.

Funny thing, he's wife's Ruger also malfunctioned. They took it back to the dealer (recent purchase) and found out the transfer bar was stuck.

MechAg94 wrote:Don't HiPoints have a pretty heavy slide? Might have enough force to do that.

It's a heavy pistol. Heavier than my 1911. I was thinking that if it was a very light pistol perhaps the recoil could be forcing the pistol up so fast that it was catching it but I don't think so with this one.

MechAg94 wrote:Also, I assume that is the fired empty case that got caught and jammed back in.

Yes.

Had a student today firing a HiPoint JHP .45. First series went fine then he had a failure to load. I called a cease fire and we looked at the firearm. I swear that it looked like the case had stuck in the chamber and the seat had been ripped off. I loaned him my ATI 1911 to finish. We completed the course and set down to look at the firearm. Below is a view of the chamber. He said he had at least 300 rounds through this firearm.


For the life of me I could not understand what I was seeing. The edge was so clean I don't know how it could be the seat ripping off. Maybe the case had a cut around the base that wasn't noticed? Then I looked down the barrel. Now I was entirely bamboozled.







Yes. That's the primer you're seeing. Somehow this case did a 180 and got shoved into the chamber by the next round.

The ammo was Federal ball. Fed in my 1911 without any problem.