Serbu 50 BMG Kaboom!

Nature Boy · May 1, 2021

This is pretty dang scary. To say the guy is lucky would be an understatement.

Looks to be ammo related. He was shooting a sabot round and maybe one of the sabot petals caused a barrel obstruction?

jmorris · May 1, 2021

Might have been good to have done a little research first. Less reliance on luck with a little education.

SLAP ammuntion is completely interoperable with M2 machine guns with stellite liner.

Background: During the 1980s, the Marine Corps invested in both .50 caliber and 7.62 x 51 SLAP concepts. The .50 caliber effort was very successful and extends the light armor capability of the M2 Heavy Machine Gun significantly. The 7.62mm effort was not successful in the M60 and caused catastrophic barrel failures due to in-bore break-up of the sabot and the penetrator puncturing the side of the barrel.

https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/slap.htm

Even if the above didn’t deter him from blowing up his rifle, it might have gotten him cautious enough to remotely fire the rifle and avoided his injuries.

MachIVshooter · May 1, 2021

Nature Boy said:
Looks to be ammo related. He was shooting a sabot round and maybe one of the sabot petals caused a barrel obstruction?

Definitely ammo related. Could have been obstruction cause by the sabot, but really looks like massive overpressure.

LoonWulf · May 1, 2021

jmorris said:
Might have been good to have done a little research first. Less reliance on luck with a little education.

https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/slap.htm

Even if the above didn’t deter him from blowing up his rifle, it might have gotten him cautious enough to remotely fire the rifle and avoided his injuries.

Were talking about it over in general, and i posted a link to the video there, but it appears he DID at least know there was a safety issue. He ordered a custom heavy barrel with what he calls a "machine gun" chamber from Serbu, i guess in an attempt to mitigate it.

Orcon · May 1, 2021

Yeah, I saw that yesterday morning. Crazy. I'm glad he managed to not die but at what point does common sense come in to play? If I get some weird clambering or abnormal velocity or any of a number of anomalies, I stop shooting and do some investigating at the reloading bench.

Robert · May 1, 2021

Under discussion here:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ics-almost-dies-from-50-cal-explosion.888114/

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