Gun goes boom.

[fpgt72]

Not me, but just found it on a rainy day. I am thinking a double charged case. Kaboom happens at around 19min in.

Gun worked for 20 min and then big kaboom. Dude is lucky he has both eyes.

 

[Maser]

Out of battery?

 

[roostercogburn98]

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

 

[hankpac]

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

 

[EddieNFL]

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]

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.

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

 

[EddieNFL]

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

As I said… not familiar.

 

[fpgt72]

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

I don't have a 17, but I would imagine it is as noisy as 22mag out of a shorter barrel. That is too much for me.

In the area as don't do as I do, do as I say. Rifle 22LR, and it goes double for longs or shorts I do admit I shoot without ears, I can't see my hands without glasses so that is covered.

In the noise area with sub sonic 22 rounds....I have louder air rifles. But then I am old, loud cars and little airplanes did my ears in long ago.

Story time:

I went in a few years ago as the wife got sick and tired of me saying....WHAT.....the ear Dr, and a tech did the ear test. The tech asked where I thought the hearing damage came from....well I use to fly little airplanes. She did not think they are that loud. I asked her if she has listened to one fly over, of course.....well that is a minimum 1500 feet away from you, likely farther. Now imagine sitting 4' behind that money to noise converter. Don't care how good your ears are, you are going to have hearing damage. I still have my DC headsets around here somewhere.

 

[babyguppy]

 

[wvfarrier]

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.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

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.

 

[6.5SH]

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

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

 

[918v]

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

 

[supercorndogs]

30 minute video. I'm out.

 

[diggler1833]

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.

 

[doubloon]

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

Yay!

Somebody else actually watched the video.

 

[babyguppy]

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

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

 

[TurdFerguson]

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

What’s a rimjob?

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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.

 

[EddieNFL]

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

LOL

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

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.