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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: smdave on June 11, 2008, 07:31:59 PM

Title: Split barrel
Post by: smdave on June 11, 2008, 07:31:59 PM: This is usually something I do not believe and I still have trouble believing, especially after mythbusters could not make it happen, but this picture comes from someone I know in Alaska and he thinks it was possibly full of ice the day he did this to his gun.

(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10203/Scot_with_split_rifle_barrel_.jpg)
Title: Re: Split barrel
Post by: ICEMAN on June 11, 2008, 08:51:10 PM: Sheeeit. :yike: Lucky man to still be here.
Title: Re: Split barrel
Post by: Intruder on June 12, 2008, 08:48:31 AM: Sum-bitch. Totally buggered that A-bolt up. Did it mess up the action or just the barrel hopefully.
Title: Re: Split barrel
Post by: WDFW-SUX on June 12, 2008, 09:09:36 AM: I was sitting next to someone at Kenmore when he either left something in the barrel ( cleaning jag bullet who knows) or the load he was shooting was degraded and the case detonated and exploded the rifle.

They have some of the pieces of it in the office.
Title: Re: Split barrel
Post by: Sagedawg on June 12, 2008, 10:54:26 AM: The old Ed Carrs gun shop here in Spokane used to have a lot of split and bulged barrels on display. If I remember right they were mostly Damascus. Makes you wonder when you see something like that.

Sage
Title: Re: Split barrel
Post by: Head-shot on June 19, 2008, 11:13:00 AM: I would turn it into a Bi pod for a display piece. Scary
Title: Re: Split barrel
Post by: GoldTip on June 19, 2008, 11:20:20 AM: Thats ugly, he's a lucky man that he only had to replace the rifle... :yike: