Walther PPQ Fires Out-Of-Battery with Improper Magazine (??)
Just a heads-up for you PPQ shooters. A friend was shooting a match with a PPQ, and had a far-out-of-battery kaboom during a COF.
I was not there when this happened and discussed it with him only briefly, so I apologize that I do not have all the details.
From what I understand, a round jammed into the ejection port and as immediate action he smacked the bottom of the mag and the round went kablooey. From the looks of the case, which had mushroomed out way down close to the rim, the gun was nearly all the way out of battery when the round went off. Apparently no damage to the gun, either.
As near as we can figure, the round was jammed between the ejection port and the mag, and part of the magazine impacted the primer and set it off. The aftermarket mags are somewhat different at the feed lips from the factory mags.
Again, sorry about the lack of detail, just thought I'd give a heads-up. Might be a decent idea to stick with factory magazines.