Narrowly avoided glocknade

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Except in this case I don't think the glock had anything to do with it. So yesterday I was at the range shooting reloads from Bite the Bullet, which I have never had any issues with (never had a single FTF/FTE/jam/mishap of any sort with my glocks actually after tens of thousands of rounds). I was shooting my 43 and had a FTF, with the unspent round (striker had hit primer) jammed super hard into the chamber. I can't rack the slide back so I take it down and am able to get the barrel out and pull the round out with the might of Thor using a shell casing. I Barney it back into the chamber and it fires and ejects perfectly (although that probably wasn't such a good idea). Later on the exact same thing happens, only this time the round is jammed against the firing pin housing and I can't get the barrel out. The RSO is able to jimmy the extractor with a screwdriver enough to drop the barrel out, but this time the round is jammed in there so hard they have to take it and yank it out with pliers or whatever.

What could have caused this? Like I said those were the only 2 failures I've EVER had with my glocks. I got the usual lecturing from the RO about shooting reloads and got told I was lucky the gun didn't blow up, which I'm sure I'm about to get again, but I have been using them for a long time and never had an issue. The casings in question here had no visible damage or anything. They had been sitting loose in a closed ammo box in my closet for quite awhile and I live in a very dry and high altitude place, could that or the storage have factored in?