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Walt Rauch has written some very good articles over the years.
This is another one.
I have seen a couple of guns self destruct, one from a reload that was carelessly done & another from a barrel obstruction.
If it can happen, it will at some time.
Good article. We should all read it.
This is another one.
I have seen a couple of guns self destruct, one from a reload that was carelessly done & another from a barrel obstruction.
If it can happen, it will at some time.
Good article. We should all read it.
I have seen a barrel on a 1911 split all the way down, a buddy of mine fired a squib that did cycle the slide, just barely, him being new to shooting thought nothing of it until the next shot. The blast from the next round told him something wasn't right, upon inspection with the slide racked back, he saw the split barrel. It was an AMT Hardballer, I wrote to AMT for him and they sent out a new barrel but I had to send them the old one first, 2-3 weeks later he got his new barrel in the mail and the gun is still going strong. He was very fortunate.
I have also seen a friend with Ruger Blackhawk with three slugs in the barrel with no ill effects other than trying to remove the slugs, that was quite a job in itself.
I have also seen a friend with Ruger Blackhawk with three slugs in the barrel with no ill effects other than trying to remove the slugs, that was quite a job in itself.
We once had a customer bring us a rifle that had saved his life. With a stupidly overloaded round, with the remains of the case still in the breach and the casehead firmly welded, yes welded to the bolt face. I have no idea what held this rifle together but the fool actually wanted us to fix it. We couldn't even get the case head off the bolt face!!!!! We figured that the total cost would far exceed the value of the piece and told him so. After all, with preasures like that, the bolt locking lugs tend to "Seat" themselves back into the action, so once you remove the barrel from the action, you would have to turn the inside of the action flat, rechamber the barrel and have no idea if the thing would work at all. With "Set back" that severe, we suspected that even after trueing the inside of the action at the locking lugs, the metal would tend to remember where is was displaced to and .....well think you get the point. He was actually mad at us that we would not do the work!
Scott
Scott
My late father worked for the RCMP as a weapons tech at the Heather St. crime lab in Vancouver. I once had a tour through his "shop" there, and of the many weird and wonderful things I saw that day, one stood out: hanging on the wall was a rifle barrel cut lengthwise. The shooter had fired a round (the wrong type for that rifle, as I recall), that stopped about 4 or 5 inches from the muzzle. Chummy then kept firing, no doubt wondering why he wasn't hitting anything. There were about 10 more rounds lined up behind the first one, like railcars in a train. Picture it: copper jacket/lead core/copper jacket/lead core, etc etc. I wish I had a pic of that- bloody amazing!!!
