SX3 blew up
- Thread starter sherlockbonez
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The most important shooting fundamental in my opinion.....CLEAR A STOPPAGE PROPERLY!
The gun obviously stopped for a reason. When this happens, figure out WHY before you shoot it again. and for the love of god don't use the round that caused the stoppage until you have ruled it out as the cause of the stoppage. I'm glad your friend wasn't seriously hurt. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for him.
The gun obviously stopped for a reason. When this happens, figure out WHY before you shoot it again. and for the love of god don't use the round that caused the stoppage until you have ruled it out as the cause of the stoppage. I'm glad your friend wasn't seriously hurt. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for him.
I shoot a silver that's 3 years old, so I'm sure it' s not strictly a design flaw.
For sure it's not a wrong size shell as he only owns 12 ga guns.
He hunts and guides everyday of the week (well 6 days), so the gun see a lot of use. However it's only a year old so it shouldn't be that big a deal as I have shot guns that around much much older and loads more round counts with no problems.
My guess is firing out of battery as well. I have no idea what happen to the 3rd shell. He said that he heard the double and a flash of burnt powder around his hand. The action was jammed open.
Sorry no pics as this just happened this morning and the gun was sent away this afternoon.
He was using factory load of 3.5" blackcloud #2s with a BC choke. He loves this load as it kills cripple very quickly. The more birds the clients drag home, the more repeat customers he gets.
For sure it's not a wrong size shell as he only owns 12 ga guns.
He hunts and guides everyday of the week (well 6 days), so the gun see a lot of use. However it's only a year old so it shouldn't be that big a deal as I have shot guns that around much much older and loads more round counts with no problems.
My guess is firing out of battery as well. I have no idea what happen to the 3rd shell. He said that he heard the double and a flash of burnt powder around his hand. The action was jammed open.
Sorry no pics as this just happened this morning and the gun was sent away this afternoon.
He was using factory load of 3.5" blackcloud #2s with a BC choke. He loves this load as it kills cripple very quickly. The more birds the clients drag home, the more repeat customers he gets.
To hope this will be a "lesson learned for him" suggests he was somehow negligent. I don't believe this is the case here.
From the description there was no stoppage and no round to examine. The first shell fired normally but the action stayed open. This isn't an unheard of event with a semi-automatic shotgun and can have several causes. The man did what most of us would do when a semi-action locks. He hit the bolt release and chambered the next shell. It was after that when things went wrong.
My expectation is there was a failure in the mechanism that resulted in an out of battery firing. This is supported by the fact his hand suffered powder burns which would not happen if the bolt was properly closed.
browninggold
CGN Regular
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- Essex County, Ontario
Go on shotgunworld.com. There's been a few reports of SX3's blowing up already. I sense a recall coming up!
Do you mind posting or PMing a couple of links to these reports? Shotgunworld.com's search engine didn't come up with any reports of SX3's blowing up.
Do you mind posting or PMing a couple of links to these reports? Shotgunworld.com's search engine didn't come up with any reports of SX3's blowing up.
Try this link: http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=196532&start=0
Dan
Thanks. It's a different blowup than the one described above but interesting nonetheless.
browninggold
CGN Regular
- Location
- Essex County, Ontario
Browning Golds use a 2 piece tilting bolt design. The Winchesters (SX2/SX3)use a different bolt. The Browning Silver uses the Winchester bolt.
- Location
- Keoma alberta
seen something close, friend had a 20 gauge hull mixed in with his 12's, in the morning darkness thought he had chamberd one, pulled the trigger, and just a click, chambered another hull. this time a much larger bang, cracked reciever, split barrel etc. the 20 rim will fit at the end of the chamber, and allow the 12 to to chamber correctly behind it.. and when trigger is pulled, it gets ugly
limit time
CGN frequent flyer
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- Cliffs of Dover
####ty, I'm thinking of getting a SX3. And where is he getting the 3.5" Black Cloud??
Mythbusters did the 20 gauge down the barrel and then fire a 12 gauge and nothing blew up. They also plugged a barrel full of mud and nothing blew up. I would guess like some of the others that something broke in the firing mechanism and it fired while closing. Have an sks that does this. Nothing wrong with the design, probably just a part that is failing. Something must have gone out to the cheapest bidder.
