Gun goes boom.

Out of battery?

Ruptured case probably. I sent 3200 rounds of CCI 17 HMR back a few years ago cause it was splitting cases in the chamber

No hearing protection, no eye protection.
It was bound to happen. I don’t care who he is.

I’m not familiar with the .17, but unless he was using pistol powder, it’s all but impossible to double charge most bottlenecked cases.

fpgt72 said:

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think it is a rimfire.

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As I said… not familiar.

My buuddy had that happen with custom built 270. The only thing that saved him was the Douglas barrel bulged but did not rupture. Pretty sure it was a over charged factory load. Hornady did not even argue with the gunsmith, just replaced the rifle and paid his med bills (this was 25-30 years ago). The stock blew into 10 or 12 pieces, one of which was sticking completely through his forearm.

What a fucking drama queen. He could have shot himself in the head with that weak ass shit and probably survived, much less a mag blowout on a bolt gun.

A. there is not enough case capacity to double charge most rifle rounds
B. He is shooting a pussy fart round
C. The gun is most likely designed to blow out the magwell in a pressure event
D. Cheap ass scope , rings and gun. You expect bad things to happen to incompetent people who shoot cheap garbage shit.
E. Most rifles have at the LEAST a 2-3x saftey factor for pressure. Many countries require a overpresure proof round. You arent blowing up a barrel unless you somehow manage getting like 125-150k PSI+.
F. Which leads to most likely failure being an obstructed barrel. Either squib round or someone ejected a loaded round and bullet stayed in the lands.

roostercogburn98 said:

Ruptured case probably. I sent 3200 rounds of CCI 17 HMR back a few years ago cause it was splitting cases in the chamber

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It blew out the rim, can see it later in the video.

Only the Military and Police should have high performance rimfire arms.

30 minute video. I'm out.

Other than the obvious potential loss of vision, this was pretty minor.

My guess is an overcharged load.

He seems like a likeable enough guy, but boy do I ever NOT go out of my way to watch him shoot 3-shot groups and claim how accurate a rifle is. He's definitely the champion of cheap rifle owners, and there certainly is a market segment for that. He's closing in on 600K subscribers on YouTube... so a lot of people like him regardless of what I, or the 'Pit say.

6.5SH said:

It blew out the rim, can see it later in the video.

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Yay!

Somebody else actually watched the video.

6.5SH said:

It blew out the rim, can see it later in the video.

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Now that you are claiming it was a 'rim job'; more people will watch..

babyguppy said:

Now that you are claiming it was a 'rim job'; more people will watch..

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What’s a rimjob?

Many here are saying "double-charge/overcharge". I disagree.

I wasn't there, during the filming of the video in the OP's link. BUT,,,,,

As others here know, as I've said it before here, I too have had a rimfire rifle explode on me. To such an extent, and to such a noise, that it attracted others in the area and they came running.

I brought it in to my Gunsmith Instructor (I had taken classes at the time) and he explained to me and the whole class, that the volume of the case does not hold enough powder to create the pressures required to do all the damage to the barrel, receiver, stock, scope, my glasses, and my forehead. He stated that the ONLY way those pressures could be attained, was due to over-priming.

And yes, I did find out after-the-fact that there WAS a recall going on, regarding the ammunition I was using. The ammo company did take my rifle (it was my first, so I was sad to see it go), the spent/destroyed brass, all my remaining ammo, and my glasses (Serengeti's). They replaced it all, and offered to cover my medical bills too, but this is Canada so I didn't have any. But yes, I did have to go get brass shrapnel removed from my forehead. If it weren't for the Serengeti's deflecting it all 'up', that shrapnel would have gone straight into my eyes.

True story, I actually WAS there, as this happened to me. YMMV, do with that what you will. And yeah, this happened back around '93-'94 era.

offered to cover my medical bills too, but this is Canada so I didn't have any.

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LOL

Please tell us you have a picture of a bolt sticking out your forehead.......

And damn if this was merica you could sued and bought a bunch of toys.

well here is my reaction to this video, on another forum:

basically the Youtuber in question is an idiot, and is either farming for engagement, a weenie, or both, and Definitely ignorant of his gear.


First off, the gun did NOT "Blow up", the pressure bearing parts of the gun remained intact when he had a case failure that lead to the side of the stock splitting off and the mag exiting, oh and his extractor also departed the bolt. and all three of these "failures" are to be expected when high-pressure gas vents into spaces not normally subjected to them. nor did any of them apparently leave at a speed to cause real concern.

My read of this is the rifle performed as it should have and by venting the gas into the mag-well saved him from grievous injury at the hands of a faulty round. And in no way was the extractor on the rifle at fault for, or a contributing factor in, the failure. the extractor (that metal piece he found blown loose and couldn't identify btw) on the 77/22-17 rifles is a spring-loaded claw NOT the Mauser-style one of the standard centerfire 77s, so that it WILL safely snap over the rim of a single-loaded round.

Slamfire said:

That Ruger action protected the shooter by directing the gas flow down, through the magazine channel

This is my Ruger bolt, and the ports on the bottom of the bolt direct gas down.

the left side of the bolt sleeve blocks gas coming down the left receiver rail cutout.

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btw, the above is a centerfire M77 bolt, on the 77/22 and 77/17 the bolt is a rear-locking design and locking lugs block the left raceway even more so.


he said his magazine was faulty, not really, there's a reason why instructions for how to properly tension Ruger Rotary mags are available on net and i believe included in all the owner's manuals for rifles that use them, anytime you strip one to clean it, you HAVE to re-tension it, and there's no guarantee that a given mag was properly tensioned from the factory (every 10/22 devotee i've met strips and re-tensions every factory new mag they get). so instead of doing what is a basic maintenance action for his gun, he again says that the issue may have contributed to the failure...

and i'll admit i'm being a bit of a pedant here, and maybe making a poor assumption based on outdated info, but. He lost me somewhat early when he started talking like the Hornady and Winchester ammo weren't likely a case of "same ammo different box". it's been kind of an obvious to anyone with a brain stem open secret that most of the 17 rimfire ammo was coming from either a singular or maybe two production plant(s) with only the tip of the V-max bullets being different, if that, between Hornady, Winchester, Remington, or Federal.

Sometimes I think I'm too much of an "Autistic gun crank".