"Shooting Accidents" - Videos

[makos_goods]

I think the second load didn't even explode... it just obstructed the barrel as it was a powder/ball/powder/ball kind of load...

Highly improbable...once the barrel began splitting there would not be anything to separate the powder in the 2nd load (if there was one, I doubt there was based on the amount of smoke). The burning gases from the charge in the rear would engulf the forward charge and it would burn as well. As I said, no evidence of a second charge going off after the first and not enough smoke.

 

[Pulp]

I'm guessing the bullet wasn't seated on the powder. Many years ago I read a test in a gun mag, where the author tried to blow up a T/C Hawken barrel. They used double charges, triple charges, double charges with up to 7 Maxiballs, and finally succeeded when they loaded one bullet on the powder and another about 1/2 way up.

 

[BCRider]

On the second one is that a double charge or a double loading? As in a second charge of powder and a second bullet seated over top of it? If so then the smoke from the one charge would be about right I'm thinking. The second charge may not have lit up if it got pushed a ways down the barrel before the splitting started.

The first vid with the spark setting off the container is priceless. As long as no one got hurt worse than singed eyebrows all is well and it's a lesson well learned.

 

[darkerx]

It is a double loading: powder/ball then powder/ball again...

 

[arcticap]

I wonder if when the first sabot is loaded it can create an air tight seal. And then when the 2nd sabot load is rammed on top of it, there's pressurized air trapped between the loads.
While the loads may be in contact temporarily, within a short time the trapped pressurized air begins to push the 2nd sabot back up the bore creating an air space that the shooter wouldn't know about even though the ramrod was checked at the time of ramming.
Or maybe the air pocket can't be overcome by ramming and the air pocket leads to the barrel bursting.
We're all used to hearing a whoosh of air escaping from the nipple when a projectile is rammed. But if the sabots are air tight, then maybe the air can't escape, creating a more dangerous situation than when 2 patched round ball loads are rammed on top of each other that aren't quite as air tight.

 

[makos_goods]

It is a double loading: powder/ball then powder/ball again...

I'll say it again since you missed it last time...

I think the second load didn't even explode... it just obstructed the barrel as it was a powder/ball/powder/ball kind of load...

Highly improbable...once the barrel began splitting there would not be anything to separate the powder in the 2nd load (if there was one, I doubt there was based on the amount of smoke). The burning gases from the charge in the rear would engulf the forward charge and it would burn as well. As I said, no evidence of a second charge going off after the first and not enough smoke.

darkerx,
After you blow up your first revolver you'll know what me mean by not enough smoke for a double or incorrect charge...

Double charges (not just double the powder) almost always show an explosion bursting the cylinder or barrel and then a secondary flash if there is something separating the two powder charges. If it is just a double charge of powder, or someone just using the incorrect powder for the firearm or load you just get ruptured barrel or cylinder, but in the case of BP or a substitute you still get a LOT more smoke.

Go look on YouTube there are hundreds of blown guns. Look at enough of them and you will see the resulting secondary flash from a load separated by a projectile or multiple chambers being exposed by a ruptured cylinder.

If you review the video that was posted you can see the rupture and the resulting smoke as one sequential event. There was no secondary flash with the resulting spread smoke cloud.

Work in industrial/military explosives long enough and watch high speed films of the conflagration and you can identify the different events even when seeing it first hand, or with regular speed video.

~Mako

 

[Steve32]

Don't forget this classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvAxLX6OzE

 

[Busyhands94]

i saw that one before, you can see in the slow-motion clip when the bullet goes through his leg the flesh rippling like water from the shock of the bullet. all i can say is good thing he didn't use defensive rounds.

 

[Cosmoline]

I suspect the fellow in the first video looked like one of Bugs Bunny's victims after that. I hope it didn't hurt him badly.

 

[rdstrain49]

Just two more reasons why I just can't wait to shoot at a public range. NOT

 

[YumaKid]

"How did that happen?"

A.) Violation of Rule #1:"Keep the finger off the trigger until sure of your target and making the commitment"

B.) Violation of Rule #ZERO: "NEVER, EVER touch a firearm without FIRST ensuring that your cerebral cortex is both ATTACHED and FULLY FUNCTIONING!"

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I wonder if the folks who poo poo non-American made black powder muskets, have seen this modern, black powder rifle, with thicker barrel than a musket, explode? Just shows that operator error can blow up any muzzleloader, regardless of nation of origin.

LD

 

[whosyrdaddy]

Valuable insight can be derived from reading the comments of the fellow that short started the gun in that video. He appears to be quite the unit. First he blames the guns owner for his own failure to check to see if the gun was loaded. Then he professes to be a gun expert because his job requires him to carry one on on a daily basis. In another response, he claims the gun was loaded with 3" bullets that magically transfer fire without leaving any trace.