Another TC Encore KABOOM - pics

[todbartell]

found this on the Nosler forum

338 RUM Encore major malfunction. The barrel is an after market, made by Matchgrade Machining.

According to his friend who witness the whole thing, the rifle blew up after only ten rounds through the barrel. He is a Navy Seal and knows exactly what he was doing. His friend also said that he specified how deep the flutes gonna be, when he ordered the barrel from Matchgrade Machining. The deeper flutes was the cause of barrel failure, according to them. I doubt it. As you can see the barrel peeled from the chamber towards the muzzle. Sounds like they're looking for scapegoat.

 

[sixty9santa]

Looks like a crappy barrel my be at fault here

 

[troutseeker]

The title said: Another TC Encore KABOOM, so I guess the TC is appropriately called Encore...

Troutseeker

 

[catnthehatt]

Therre have been some big issuses in the past with rebarrels and rechambers to 300WSM with these actions, I don't know why anyone would go for even more horsepower than that and put one in 3338RUM??!!
Cat

 

[BIGREDD]

Thompson Center does not chamber Encore barrels in .338RUM...
The title of this post is inacurrate and gives the impression that Thompson Center has a problem with their barrels.
That is not the case, that barrel was not a T/C barrel!
The chambers are part of the barrel on these rifles and that rifle clearly failed in the after market barrel/chamber.
Actually it looks like the T/C portion of that rifle actually held together quite well, possibly saving the shooter from more serious injury.
I think this post should have been titled Matchgrade Machining barrel goes KaBoom!

 

[super7]

I wouldn't have wanted to own the face that was sitting next to that

 

[mylesrom]

What does an aftermarket barrel failure have to do with the Encore? The chambers are part of the barrel, which is aftermarket. Now, if its factory barrel failures, thats interesting news worth reading....

 

[303carbine]

Hey TB, did you give him reloading lessons????? Another unhappy reloader from the now closed Vanderhoof School of Reloading.

 

[redleg]

He is a Navy Seal and knows exactly what he was doing

Where in Navy SEAL training is reloading or barrel design studied?

 

[RR]

I will bet he flinches if he ever pulls another trigger.
Rich

 

[Slimbo]

Hopefully he was wearing that watch facing inwards....or else it looks like there wouldnt be much of his wrist left

 

[Maple Leaf Pilgrim]

Where in Navy SEAL training is reloading or barrel design studied?

Right after tactical knitting.

 

[mylesrom]

Being a Navy Seal, he should have drained the water out of the barrel first

 

[scott_r]

That would freak me out !! No fault of TC though, still make some of the best guns around.

 

[Gibbs505]

Where in Navy SEAL training is reloading or barrel design studied?

Good question!

 

[Pudelpointer]

Looking closely, it appears that the barrel may have started to come apart just ahead of the chamber, right where the fluting seems to start, and peeled back and forward. I guess sparky the navy seal should have put a little more thought into his fluting depth request.

 

[Longshot]

Where in Navy SEAL training is reloading or barrel design studied?

HAHA!
"It's ok folks.Nothing to see here.I'm a Navy Seal.I meant to do that.Carry on"

 

[mikeelliot]

ouch!!

 

[SignGuy]

WTF does being a SEAL have anything to do with metalurgy
as it has been stated the thread title is way off base. seesh that is one nasty looking kaboom though

 

[Gatehouse]

TC Encores are crap because they blow up.