BOOM - Remington Rifle from WalMart

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I vote for an obstruction in the bore. Notice the way the split occurs near the muzzle and peels back toward the receiver.

I'm wondering if there was some kind of wick in the barrel that was put in my Remington at the factory.

But I agree with Duckbill... there's more to this story than is being told.
 
I have seen a Browning A-Bolt Stalker with a mismarked barrel before. (.30-06 marked as .270 Winchester). Never suspected a thing until the bullets started hitting the target sideways at 25 yards. My brother had the owner come over to his house, and both a .270 and 7mm bullet dropped right down through the bore.

They took it back to Wal-Mart, and a Browning Medallion was sent out overnight to take its place. Sad part was, the guy was kind of partial to the ugly looking Stalker model, so the extravagant upgrade was somewhat wasted on him as a goodwill gesture.
 
Wow, you calling your co-worker "lucky" is about the biggest understatement I've heard in quite some time.

I'm checking my next rifle I buy a half a dozen times before firing it. :D
 
Always make sure there are no obstructions in the barrel. That includes grease which is hard to see and does not compress well.


All firearms should be cleaned before use. Why do people not understand that? Barrels can blow up if there is something in there. Firing pins can stick causing slamfires or out of battery kabooms if there is gunk in them.


A lot of firearms I've bought had tiny metal powder/filings here and there from manufacture that weren't cleaned out. This was on cheaper rifles, never on pistols.


The only rifle I barely cleaned prior to shooting was a Saiga. And on that I still pushed a brush then jag through the bore, and sprayed out the bolt/firing pin ensuring it freely moves. That's bare minimum cleaning prior to shooting any firearm.


It is one of the 10 rules of firearm safety.
 
I am wondering why there is a need for Wal-Mart being listed in the title. Not like it makes a difference where it came from or that Wal-Mart's rifles are any different than any other retailer's guns.
 
I vote for the wrong type of ammo somehow being fired in this rifle. There are quite a few different cartridges that will chamber in a 270. Either the clerk at Walmart sold the wrong ammo with the rifle or the purchaser made a mistake on his own. I don't see how a factory, off the shelf rifle could have had that serious of a bbl obstruction to result in this type of damage.
 
looks like some cartoon stuff man i ve never seen that happen. bu im new to rifles. I wouldn't mind getting a new rifle though especially a 30.06.
 
Wal-Mart and gun returns

"I'm sure they have some sort of policy to deal with this sort of thing, no returns on firearms unless defective or something like that."
Click to expand...

Don't be so sure :)

Someone I know ("a friend") bought a bolt-action Marlin (or was it a Savage? My friend currently draws a blank on that, it was 6 or 7 years ago) .22 Magnum at Wal-Mart, thinking that it would fire not only .22 Magnums but LR as well. Not so!

So after a weekend of plinking, this fella cleaned and repacked the rifle, and returned it, got a cheerful refund. No one asked whether it had been fired or made any special noises about returning a firearm. Just got the price of the rifle refunded. Reason offered to a polite (or at least not hostile) question about the reason for the return "turned out not to be what I wanted."

Next stop, Dick's Sporting Goods, where the same person asked about a return policy on guns if one didn't decide it was perfect. "Return policy?! Ha! We can't just blithely* accept fired guns, you know -- BATF would yank our license! Somebody could use it in a crime, return it, etc, and it would never catch up to the shooter."

"But Wal-Mart did, just an hour ago ..."

Clerks at Dicks: [BOGGLE!]

So maybe they *should* have such a policy, but Wal-Mart is like the local public library -- the quality of information received depends onw ho's manning the desk.

timothy

* Didn't really say "blithely." Loose paraphrase ;)
 
That's why

That's why the range officers check the bores before guys are allowed to shoot at our county range. I would not have wanted to be standing next to that guy.
 
In my neck of the woods, (South Florida) it seems to be Wal-Mart policy to tell you at least seventeen separate times that under no condition will they accept firearms for refund, exchange, or repair.

At least that's how it was this past spring, when I bought my new Mossberg 835. The clerk told me about five times, the other clerk asked me if the first clerk had told me, and the assistant manager reminded them to tell me, then told me again as we did the perp walk out to the parking lot. Wal-Mart will not accept firearms returns for refund, exchange, or repair...
 
Remintons from Wal-Mart

A few years ago, I bought a beautiful Remington Model 700 BDL DM in 7mm08 from Wal-Mart. After mounting a scope I went out to sight it in. The bolt would not close on a live round! The barrel was clear of obstruction (I looked!) but the chamber area around the locking lugs was filled with hardened cosmolene! I never was satisfied with that rifle and soon traded it away. Jimmy
 
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Wal-Mart firearms

In the early to mid 1980s, I bought a 12ga Maverick pump action shotgunfrom Wal-Mart a few days before Dove season opened. I did not test fire it,(after all it was brand new!). On opening day I discovered an unwelcome aspect of this particular shotgun. It would only feed a fresh round from the tubular magazine if the muzzle was pointed straight up! This was on a Saturday at a time when Wal-Mart was not 24/7 so I had to wait until after work on Monday to return it. When I did return it, the store manager accused me of only buying it to use on opening day with the no intention of keeping it! I was livid! Needless to say, I don't do a lot of business with Wally-world.
 
A fellow I work with brought this photo in on his cell phone this morning.

thats an awful clear pict for being taken with a cell phone....
 
correct me if I am wrong. But reguardless if anything may been in the barrel to make the banna split like it shows in the pic. Don't all gun manufactures shoot off a live round after QA and put the empty shell along w/ the gun to the new buyer that purchases it so they are aware the gun was tested?


I know on my bersa that's how it was. So that shows that at least I know I got a working gun.


Either way, glad your friend was not hurt and got a free 30-06
 
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