I got blown up today

[sig226]

So we rented machine guns to some Europeans today, which we probably should not have done because Europeans tend to think that all Americans run around with machine guns all the time and it's just like on tv.

They screwed up a Colt, so we gave them another one. They said the Uzi didn't work, so I went in the range and tested it. The barrel worked loose and it wouldn't fire. Then they handed me another Colt and one of them said, "It does not fire."

Sure it does . . .

So I chambered a round and pulled the trigger.

BANG

It fired just fine, the problem was the bullet didn't come out. I got blown up.

Kewl.

The gun jammed with a cartridge stuck on the remains of the case in the chamber. The case head was sitting on top of the magazine. I saved the case head and we extracted the rest of it. It looks like this:



The front bullet was a squib load. The gun was not full of unburnt powder, so the bullet didn't work loose and lodge in the throat. They must have tried to reload it a few times and it wouldn't fire because it wouldn't go into battery, but they pushed the bullet into the barrel. I'm smart, so I got a round in the chamber and closed the bolt.

Crud and black smoke come out from the seam between the upper and lower receivers of M-16 type rifles when this happens. It looks cool. And all of my pieces are intact, I can still see out of both eyes, and it didn't even burn off half of my moustache. I am still the studly sex machine I always was.

But I've never been blown up before, and now I have. What an exciting day!

 

[MICHAEL T]

Just don't rent to the French. All they do is drop them and raise hands.

 

[Oneofsix]

^^^HAHAHA
sig, glad you're ok, could've been worse...

 

[4v50 Gary]

Some of our French members would disagree. Back in deGaulle's days, the Gendarmarie would kick arse during the riots. Let's see if their Prez has the cajones he says he has.

 

[sig226]

Just don't rent to the French. All they do is drop them and raise hands.

They were Swedes. I've always liked the Swedes. My older sister had a friend named Mary and the two of them used to love to listen to that Ugashakka song. I thought Mary was a hottie, so I figured the Swedish must be pretty cool.

 

[Big Boomer]

glad you are still alive, and d4mn those Europeans; first they ban them then they come over here and break them!

:banghead:

 

[Nolo]

Being blown up is an experience every man should have.
Like getting shot, or having surgery.
Or being stabbed.
How can you be a real man if you have not had these experiences?
I've blown myself up before, too.
I work with explosives (as a hobby) sometimes, and so, yeah, sometimes it's gone wrong.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Every man should be shot or stabbed? I know you're only 16, but are you serious?

 

[Nolo]

Every man should be shot or stabbed? I know you're only 16, but are you serious?

Not systematically, but it's just one of those life experiences.
And no, not really.
But boy, it sure does make you feel alive!
By the way, I'm 17 now.
As of November.

 

[AirplaneDoc]

Jorg,

I'm with you, I can pass on being stabbed, shot, or bown up. I have had surgery, it was not all that great either.

 

[Nolo]

I'm with you, I can pass on being stabbed, shot, or blown up. I have had surgery, it was not all that great either.

I'm not saying they're enjoyable, but they're part of life. You know you're alive if you narrowly avoid losing it.

 

[collateral]

I have been shot with a nail gun accidentally, I have had surgery and had a mortar (fireworks, not the indirect fire weapon) blow up a few feet behind me.

As for being stabbed or shot, no thanks, I'll pass. Being a man has nothing to do with how many bad/violent things have happened to you.

 

[Nolo]

As for being stabbed or shot, no thanks, I'll pass. Being a man has nothing to do with how many bad/violent things have happened to you.

Like I said, I was pretty much kidding.

 

[2Ais4U]

wow your lucky, I had a friend buy a dragunov chambered in .308 from some place in texas and it jacked up and almost killed him.

 

[silverlance]

Every man should get a parking ticket.
It makes him understand his place in the world as a subject.
It is the same with poking your eye with the towel after a shower
Or getting your jewels caught in your zipper.
It is the measure of a man.

on the other hand...
pic of the gun? must be an expensive bit of oops.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Well, Nolo, I'm glad you aren't actually looking forward to getting shot or stabbed. Most people who have had the pleasure of the experience that I've talked to seem to agree it wasn't necessary for them to fully enjoy their time on earth.

Back to the topic, I'd like to see the gun as well if it suffered any obvious damage.

 

[AirplaneDoc]

Nolo,

I recently visited a close friend of mine in a VA Med Center, when I went in to see him, I passed thru a wing of guys not much older that yourself, who had been injured by IED's, firefights, etc. in Iraq and Afganastan. I can assure you that those guys do not see themselves as any more a man than they did before, in fact most of them were in some way less at least in a physical sense. Maybe you ought to swing by Walter Reed in DC and spend sometime with some guys who "really feel alive" and "have had some of those life experiences".

Even though it was below 0 when I was at the hospital visiting, when I left, I walked outside, rather than pass thru that wing of the hospital again. Some food for thought.

Sig226,

Sounds lucky no one was hurt, Some pics would be good.

 

[PTK]

I work with explosives (as a hobby) sometimes, and so, yeah, sometimes it's gone wrong.

If that were true, you'd be a pink mist and a fond memory. You might mean you play with fireworks or pyrotechnics, though.


sig226

Glad you're okay. Firearms can be rather annoying when they don't work properly!

 

[opd743]

Nolo, I really do hope that you were kidding. I know officers from other cities that were shot, and I don't think that they consider it a "must do" in life. I know that you are young, you are probably still in highschool. If you think that getting shot or stabbed is something cool then I can only think that you have the mindset of some street thug. It is not something that anyone would look forward too.

 

[novaDAK]

I had a container of alcohol (Isopropyl) explode in my hand about a month ago. I was trying to replicate something I saw on Youtube (BAD IDEA!!!) and it went horribly wrong. The top of the container flew across the room, and I had what was left of the plastic contaner in pieces, on fire, IN MY HAND! Somehow I made it out of this with only singed hair on my knuckles, no burns. However, when the top blew off, it was damn loud in my basement, and it scared the hell out of me. Cool though hahaha
My hand was pretty numb for a while, after all, a container of alcohol did explode in my hand

 

[bogie]

Oh, fahchrissake.

Is this the best that America can do?

My only reply is a paraphrasal of a great man:

Your job is not about getting stabbed or shot. Your job is about stabbing or shooting the OTHER poor dumb sonovabitch.

And now you _really_ need to go slap a few of your teachers around for indoctrinating that crap in you. And turn off the video games and skatertube stuff for a while. See that door? It goes a strange place - OUTSIDE! There's a Bear out there for you somewhere.

If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.

 

[RLsnow]

think youre all taking Nolo`s (mostly joke) thing a wee bit serious

as for the swedes, yeah theyre cool. theyre kinda like semi vikings, and thats...well thats just damn fine

 

[boatbod]

Lets see... I've stabbed myself while cooking, slicked my hand with a tree saw, embedded rusty metal in a finger and (recently) fallen far enough to break my back and foot. Do I feel any more of a man? Hell no... I ache all over, and some days just getting out of bed can be painful. Oh yeah, I'm only 38....

Be careful out there. You don't want to be stabbed, shot or blown up. It hurts, and may continue to do so long after the healing process has completed.

 

[silverking]

The simple facts are:
1- I've made it to age 66 (in six days)
2- I've never been stabbed, shot, threatened to great bodily harm, or made dead by a bad guy.
3- I've fathered two boys and two girls.
4- I have eight wonderful grandkids.
5- That's man enough for my woman!

p.s. I protect them all with a variety of :
S&W
Stoeger
Marlin

 

[vtoddball]

I'm pretty certain Nolo was kidding. You guys need to lighten up a bit. Geez.