Man Get’s Bullet Stuck in Barrel and Fires SEVEN More Times, Here’s the Result
http://madworldnews.com/bullet-stuck-barrel-seven-times/
Although they can be the most fun things in the world, guns should always be thought of as dangerous tools, and one man’s recent experience went proved just that. After lodging eight bullets into the barrel of his gun and rendering it beyond repair, his gun was cut open to reveal a situation that could have ended in a significantly and drastically different way.
It all happened after a man, unbeknownst to him, fired a round that got stuck in his barrel and didn’t make its way out the firing end. Instances such as these are commonly referred to as squibs. Since the shooter didn’t know what had occurred, he fired the gun another seven times before discovering what had happened.
One Reddit user, NitsujTPU, explains:
There are two main causes of squib rounds:
1) Inadequate powder put into the load. Many people use reloaded ammunition to save money, or to customize their loads (this is especially popular among competitive rifle shooters, because they will tune the way that they make the bullet to their specific gun).
2) No gunpowder in the load. A cartridge (the thing that goes into a gun: a bullet, primer, casing, and charge), has two explosives in it: the charge, which propels the bullet out of the gun, and the primer, which sets off the charge’s explosion. If there’s no charge, the explosion from the primer can send the bullet just far enough into the barrel to jam the gun.
He further went on to say that squibs are really dangerous. Although gun’s don’t usually blow up as a result, they have on occasion. Going into further detail on this, he also said:
Yes, this is a big danger, but it’s a bigger danger in certain kinds of guns. In a blowback action pistol, the gasses would be vented out the back of the gun and into the shooter’s face. There’s little danger of the gun blowing up, but the sensation could be quite unpleasant and debris flying out the back of the gun could cause an injury. It would not be the same as getting shot. The bullet gets all of its get-up-and-go from the trip down the barrel, so if the casing flew out backwards, it would be going at a relatively low (by relation to a bullet) velocity. (You still wouldn’t be happy about it.)
In a bolt gun or a gas-operated gun with a rotating bolt (such as the AR-15), the action is intended to be pretty close to air-tight during the phase of operation when the explosion occurs. This can cause the barrel to burst or parts to fly off of the bolt or bolt carrier group. That’s pretty darned dangerous in the worst case, because all of those parts are right next to your face when you’re shooting, and your arm is kind of wrapped up in there. Blown barrels can cause severe injuries, though I’ve never heard of it happening on a properly-smithed, properly-operated gun. In the rare cases that I’ve heard of first-hand, nobody was injured severely. That said, taking a look at the gun after, I’m sure that this has been more a matter of luck than anything else.
Given the fact that this man shot seven times after his first squib, rather than just once, I’d say it was a little more than luck that this gun didn’t give way and explode. What do you think – was this guy lucky?
And since we are on the subject- check this out.
http://www.300blktalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=88181A .300” Blackout will fit and it will fire in a .223” Barrel
This dramatic photo was the result, the .300” stretched an amazing amount.
