[Walt Sherrill]

As other have said, it takes a lot of force to get a round down a barrel, and if it has enough force to do that, it's not going to land anywhere nearby. It's just NOT possible. Doubt this? Try driving a bare bullet down the barrel with a brass rod or stout wooden rod; it's so hard to do that the best wood rods often break.

Just because it looked like one of your reloads doesn't mean it WAS one of your reloads; A lot of handloaded rounds you could find at the range would probably look like yours, if you only looked at the bullet itself...

What you saw was probably a SQUIB that someone else drove out of the gun and left there -- having no real use for it...

Then too, the times I've had a squib round, I've almost always noticed a good bit of junk (unfired powder, etc.) in the chamber and around the ejection port. You would likely have noticed something else wrong if you really had a squib.

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