Please remove the laser bore sight before....

[Pilgrim]

http://michaelbane.blogspot.com/2006/10/helpful-home-gunsmithing-tip.html

more pics, scroll to the bottom:

http://www.iguanasoft.com/~jeffersonian/blog0609.html#1284

 

[FPrice]

WOW!!!!!

Wonder if he had to make an emergency underware change?

 

[Admin]

MY GOD! He was lucky...

 

[LoginName]

Damn!

I've seen plenty of pictures of other mishaps and kabooms before, but I've never seen a barell split like that.

Looks like it's from a Bugs Bunny cartoon when Bugs sticks his finger in Elmer Fudds gun barell and he pulls the trigger.

 

[Admin]

Looks like it's from a Bugs Bunny cartoon when Bugs sticks his finger in Elmer Fudds gun barell and he pulls the trigger.

They need to try that one on Mythbusters....

 

[drgrant]

Well, +1 for savage rifles... at least the gun blew up at that end and not at the
bolt/reciever/stock end.


-Mike

 

[Moderator]

What a knob.

Holy damn.

 

[Pilgrim]

I think he's gonna have problems zipping that gun case !

 

[Adam_MA]

They need to try that one on Mythbusters....

They did! Quite a while ago as a matter of fact. They could NOT get a gun barrel to split like that, even when solidly sealing the barrel of a 12ga, and blasting away. I think the most they were able to achieve was a large bulge in the end of the barrel.

Adam

 

[jamz]

Yeah, but they only tried it with a shotgun, which has a relatively low barrell pressure. A 30-06 with a bunged up barrell would create a lot more explosive force.

 

[Dirtypacman]

That is just scary!!

 

[Arioch]

When I worked in a retail gun shop in the 80s, I saw a 12 ga. that had come apart pretty badly when it was fired after the shooter accidently dropped a live 20 ga. shell into the chamber and it slid into the barrel.

 

[rscalzo]

We have had people who left the rod in their muzzleloader. Might require a change in shorts after that.....

Good thing Wal-Mart sells them in those multi-packs......

 

[anthonyne]

This doesn't look like an obtainable result without some assistance. It looks more to me like someone "peeled" back the barrel before the photo was taken.

 

[dreppucci007]

HOLY SCHNIEKIES!!!

 

[Ray P]

Daughter just called that a "Bunyan Onion" barrel.

 

[Finalygotabeltfed]

Makes me appreciate those days on the range by myself even more.

 

[AL243]

I wonder if the laser was on before he pulled the trigger, if it was what did he think that red dot on the target was? I also think the barrel had some hand work to get it to the position in the picture.

 

[Arioch]

We have had people who left the rod in their muzzleloader. Might require a change in shorts after that.....

Good thing Wal-Mart sells them in those multi-packs......

Back when I was a member of the First Congress of New England Muzzle Loaders, I saw the results of several attemps to fire a rifle with the rod still in the barrel. Now thats a heavy projectile! Just picture the recoil level.

 

[DavidC77]

I looked at the next months page, it shows some guy going into a store and pulling his gun out and droping it right onto the counter and into the sale clerks hands, then you see the bad guy go oh sh&t and runs out of the store. I'd like to no the tail that the bad guy told his buddies .

 

[tuna]

Yeah, but did the laser hit the target where it said it was aimed at?