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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 2509617" data-attributes="member: 5412">I won't say they are common, but squibs happen during USPSA matches I attend. There is no bang, and typically the round will only engage the rifling of the pistol, and not allow the next round to chamber. The slide can't come into battery.That being said, most USPSA shooters reload, and in these trying times, some have resorted to using small pistol magnum, small rifle, and small rifle magnum primers in their pistol rounds. Nothing unsafe about using them, but the more powerful primers require the reloader to back off their load, and work back up.I could see where the more powerful primers could cause a projectile to move far enough into the barrel so the gun could come to battery. The consequences would not be pretty.BTW, I use .223 cases, use a drill and reamer to allow them to accept a 209 shotgun primer. Put a .22 pellet in the neck, and it makes your AR into a pellet gun that will send that pellet through a 2X4 just using the shotgun primer.Do the same with .38 specials and shotgun primers. I have plastic bullets than you can get from Speer. They will penetrate 18 ga aluminum plate easily.</blockquote>