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Der banana barrel.
Bob
This makes me sad. Hope nobody got hurt
Ouch!
so what happened ? or what caused this to happen
That is an awful lot of barrel slices hanging out past the nut.
Yup, a plugged muzzle...pop goes the weasel.
My late friend, Jim M, had that happen at Ft. Bragg. 'statement of charges, one, one each, U.S. Rifle, Cal..30, M1, $47.50'
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Apparently what happened was a lightly charged round. said that he was shooting along fine, just 100 yard slow fire, and then he had a round that went off funny. The spent case kicked out but there wasn't a round on target... he fired off a few more and then noticed the barrel looked odd... I'm guessing the weak round had just enough gas to send the bullet down the barrel, but lodged it at the very end of the barrel. The following shot must have blown it open and the trigger guard popped open too.
I'll take two...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom in N.J.
Sounds about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
Gawd I wonder what the group was like after the banana burst! If you are using squib loads use something that is going to have the projectile leave the barrel not like this it begs if they were all from the same batch that was reloaded how many more just made it out the barrel. A friend of mine uses a case filled to the bottom of the neck with Trail boss with 155gn projies and for 100m plinking its the bees knees I am considering using a similar load to run in a 6.5/284 barrel.
Also I think I see a dint in the front sight from a bit of peel hopefully no bystanders copped any errant shrapnel from the event, I reckon that is about a 20 gauge hole in the muzzle now, a good lesson on just the amount of pressures are dealt with shooting and that was a squib load.
Thinking out loud, it appears that while a weak round, everything was going alright until the gas port allowed the gas a pathway to vent elsewhere allowing the bullet to stick. I imagine if it were a bolt action rifle it would have spit the bullet clear but with dismal ballistic performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
Looked right he was just on the razor's edge of enough force to pop it clear, and came up just unlucky.
That's a shame, but it happens some times. I nearly lost my Mark VI Webley revolver to a batch of Fiocchi .455 ammunition, a similar thing, an incomplete ignition of the powder and it lodged the bullet just ahead of the forcing cone, a follow up shot would have likely destroyed the gun.
This thread reminds me of the discussion about the Krag that blew up and was attributed to an underpowered load.
https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=52780
He is lucky that the bullet stopped after the gas port instead of before it. If it had been before the gas port it would have created a bomb as there would have been no where for the gas to vent (by design).
Yes I have seen a race wheel gun wrecked at a shooting comp in a speed shoot Bang bang ppft BANG ooops now there is one bulged slab barreled 357 mag S&W