Interesting Field and Stream Video

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There's no apparently about it. It IS bad. That's why they changed 20 ga. hulls to yellow a good many years back, to try and avoid this sort of thing.

People still manage to blow up 12 ga. guns by stuffing 20 ga. shells in the chamber first, though. It seems to happen more with double barrels than repeaters, from what various gunsmiths have told me over the years. The same thing can happen with a 20 gauge over a 28 as well.

The video was a bit misleading in an important way however. The blown-up barrel exhibited in the video WAS NOT blown up by a 20 ga. shell stuck immediately in front of the chamber, but instead was blown up by a stuck wad from a bad reload that lodged midway down the barrel. If you put a live 20 ga. shell in a 12 ga. gun, it isn't going that far down the barrel - it will stick near the front of the forcing cone not far from the chamber. Drop a 12 ga. shell in on top of it and fire the gun, and you have the makings for a potential disaster.

lpl

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laX3H08TuMk
 
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