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M-14 not garand. Totally different gas system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
Debris in the barrel?
Water?
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Bob
That is a young looking fellow. I sure hope he made it home.
Ouch...can you imagine taking that one to the platoon sergeant?
I bet he's still doing press ups.
"Geez, I forgot to remove that Marlboro filter I put in there to protect the bore."
Looks like a bipod on that rifle ! must have be an M14E2 which often had a compensator fitted over the flash suppressor
Stumbled onto this:
LINK: One Lucky Marine and His M14 Rifle
http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/foru...ach_id=1062653
One Lucky Marine and His M14 Rifle - FIREARMS & ORDNANCE - U.S. Militaria Forum
"Posted 23 January 2016 - 01:45 PM
The caption to this press photo reads: Bull's Eye - U.S. Marine PFC. Jerry D. Goff of St. Louis MO. examines a split barrel of his M-14 rifle which was hit square in the bore by Viet Cong sniper bullet during exchange of fire with guerrillas at My Song, south of DaNang. Goff was slightly wounded in the face by the freak occurrence.
AP Wire Photo April 25, 1965
Yeah, I'd say he was real lucky!
Regards,
Charlie"
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A photo such a this perhaps helps to confirm that war can, at times, be very much a lottery of who lives, who is injured and who is killed. If the marine seen here had been positioned either an inch further to the left or right he probably would have been seriously injured or killed.
Somewhere there is I heard of a 303 with a mauser round right up the spout from the wrong end happened I think in the mud & blood of WWI whilst the two combatant types were trying to kill each other from their respective trenches.
On Gallipoli during 1915, Australian sniper Billy Sing (estimated 200 kills) and his observer Tom Sheehan had a close call with Turkish snipers. A Turkish
snipers bullet hit the telescope that observer Tom Sheehan was using and the spent bullet hit Sings shoulder. Both men were alright
"Sniper bullet" a good story, hard to prove or disprove, to avoid a statement of charges for the rifle muzzle stuck in the mud as a walking aid... (happened to a good friend of mine, it didn't work!)
Old thread and post...
Thing is it HAS been documented before and we have SOME proof. I know some of these guys went into fantastic bullet storms, why couldn't it have happened? Too, I've seen my share, everything from a barrel full of crap to a blank attachment left on.
I can't say, I wasn't there...
I have to say I find the sniper bullet a little far fetched but sense I was not there a can’t refute it. I have, however, seen a number “plugged” muzzles that when fired resulted in this exact catastrophic barrel failure.
If supposing that the rifle seen here (OP) was indeed hit by enemy fire, would fire from a standard infantry rifle, fired at some distance away, do this much damage to an opponent's rifle barrel. A 50 cal round may but I am referring to 7.62mm cal. and below. I do not know the answer to this question.
I think it would be better suggested that it was a stray round during a firefight that the press suggesting a sniper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Hollinger
The damage was from him firing a ball round with a fully plugged barrel. Yes, this is one type of damage you could expect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
And no doubt a hefty recoil and muzzle blast............!
When I was present for catastrophic failures like this, except for an out of battery experience with a .50 cal...there wasn't much difference. An 8mm Bren blew upwards through the magazine and only the kaboom was different. An FN with BFA on just sounded different, a Remington stainless in 7MM gave a sharp crack instead of the normal boom and the barrel split lengthwise... Not much difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
The .50 was like a bomb going off though, followed by the tracer burning to completion in the commencement... That was picturesque.