Take a look at that TOTAL head case rupture - that makes a Glock kaboom look like a minor inconvenience. I've held 2 kaboomed Glocks and neither one caused the total destruction of this one, and neither injured the shooter, beyond some scrapes and scratches. With all that brass protruding from the chamber, and flowed around the breaching area, it certainly looks like it fired out of battery. He's very lucky indeed, I hope he recovers use of his hand. Cross that pistol off the list, it goes kaboom and doesn't do enough to protect you.
KABOOOOOM!! FN Five-Seven exploded!
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heavenIsAlie
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i saw a kaboom similar to this about 2 years ago and that is what cause it, shot when slightly out of battery
I do not mean to sound nasty here but only very foolish people shoot without eye protection.
Graydog
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But . . . FN only makes amazing awesome mil-grade weapons. How can this be?
OOB detonation judging by how the back of the case is peeled cleanly open, but the barrel did not blow.
Never seen it with a Five-seveN before, nasty. Just speculating now, but possible that there was some kind of weird double feed or accidental manual cocking, where a live cartridge was chambered, and was not caught by the extractor, then the next cartridge was stripped from the magazine and hit the primer? (Pointy tipped bullet and a very gentle feed ramp. Same thing as pointed rifle bullets in a tube magazine perhaps?)
Just goes to show that the little 5.7 cartridge has a lot more zip then most give it credit for, this shooter just wound up on the wrong end of it.
5.7x28 usually runs around 45,000PSI where somthing like a 45ACP or a 9mm Luger run between 20,000 to 35,000PSI. Big difference with an OOB detonation, especially when a thin layer of polymer, and not steel, is all that seperates your hand and it.
That said, it won't change the way I think about and shoot my Five-seveN, it is a good little gun.
All the best in recovery to the shooter on the other board, hopefully the long term affects are minimal.
Never seen it with a Five-seveN before, nasty. Just speculating now, but possible that there was some kind of weird double feed or accidental manual cocking, where a live cartridge was chambered, and was not caught by the extractor, then the next cartridge was stripped from the magazine and hit the primer? (Pointy tipped bullet and a very gentle feed ramp. Same thing as pointed rifle bullets in a tube magazine perhaps?)
Just goes to show that the little 5.7 cartridge has a lot more zip then most give it credit for, this shooter just wound up on the wrong end of it.
5.7x28 usually runs around 45,000PSI where somthing like a 45ACP or a 9mm Luger run between 20,000 to 35,000PSI. Big difference with an OOB detonation, especially when a thin layer of polymer, and not steel, is all that seperates your hand and it.
That said, it won't change the way I think about and shoot my Five-seveN, it is a good little gun.
All the best in recovery to the shooter on the other board, hopefully the long term affects are minimal.
There wasn't one, according to the shooter. It is a high pressure cartridge, I would hate to see his thumb.
07blackwater
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- Port Coquitlam, BC
Definitely looks out of battery. I hope he's OK.
This. FN aren't known to make junk. Ammo failure? Maintenance issue (residue build up or something)? Manufacturing fault that slipped through QA?
Hope he gets sorted out and comp'd if he's not at fault.
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Wow, that is scary and strange. I don't understand how the round could fire OOB on the last round. I don't know much about the 5.7 but is it a bottle neck case? Perhaps it was one of his reloads?
