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Based on the photos, it looks like something definately got jammed in tye barrel.

The marks in photo #2 look like whatever it was got twisted there and then blew out the side. Are they marking from a rifled slug?

stay safe.

skidmark
 
I have heard about someone putting a 20 gauge shell in a 12 gauge and then putting a 12 gauge on top of it when the round didn't seat. Only heard of it as a horror story in hunter ed. and it was a pump. I'm going to guess it was a 12 into a 20 barrel insert that went FUBAR somehow.
 
Certainly an obstructed barrel...

OW! Quit it!

The rim of a 20-Ga shell will catch on the forward part of the 'forcing cone', and a 12-Ga shell wll drop in right behind it, with no evidence of the obstruction until KA-BOOM! ! !

Never mind HOW I know....I just know!!!!!
 
It isn't magazine fed though. My theory revolves around a magazine that feeds a 20 into a 12 which goes right down the barrel, the owner thinking it didn't feed and inserting a 12 on top of the 20 and pulling the trigger. Not sure how in the world that would happen in an o/u though. Looks nasty. Maybe a barrel insert got loose? I think he is ok if he is posting pics.
 
If the shooter got away in one piece, he had a very unusual shooting style. The bottom barrel of an under-over right over the front hand. What does the foreend look like?
 
From the pics I can make out Beretta. Probably not a cheap mishap. I'm starting to get antsy because I just have to know what happened.
 
Happened last year on a pheasant shoot.An older chap put a 20b shell in a 12b chamber.The 20b shell dropped through the chamber and lodged in the barrel he then thought he had a misfire and put a 12 b shell in the chamber.Squeezed the trigger and boom the barrel exploded taking his thumb with it.
To be fair the guy never whimpered once but was very embarrassed,his fore end wood ended up in pieces and the fore end iron was found embedded in a near by tree.We looked for his thumb as there was a chance it could have been re attatched,unfortunately we think his dog ate it.He made a full recovery and still shoots with us,however we do tend to stand well away when he chambers a shell.
Thanks for your concern...
 
Sorry about your friend. Just...wow. It was a nice gun, did he salvage the stock and action and have new barrels and fore end put on?
 
He gave the gun to me,it's a nice Beretta 686, new before mishap.New barrels and fore end are $650.00,from Beretta UK.He is very well now and still loves his hunting.
 
I think it's excitement,when the birds are been driven they tend to come over very quickly,all around you are shooting -we call it shooting fever.
 
I think it is interesting how none of the four rules were broken. I guess you could say he didn't treat it like it was loaded?
 
12/ 20 burst. One would think that with all the warnings out in every owner's manual it would be less common. However last time I bought a case of shells at Walmart the (insert unkind words here) clerk gave me 20ga instead of 12. MY fault that I did not notice until I was at the range. Can't return ammo and I don't shoot 20ga.... so I pointed this out to the wife and she said; "You don't need to buy any more guns this month...". It was a bad day all around. But at least I still had all my equipment still attached....
 
I keep reading about it happening,maybe we are spoilt and have to many guns in different calibres.
 
Titan6 said:
Can't return ammo and I don't shoot 20ga.... so I pointed this out to the wife and she said; "You don't need to buy any more guns this month...".
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The magic words being "this month." Looks like you're clear for a nice Christmas present for yourself!

macFarlaine said:
I think it's excitement,when the birds are been driven they tend to come over very quickly,all around you are shooting -we call it shooting fever.
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OK. If he was in the field I can see how he might have opened the gun without looking and assumed that the auto-ejectors kicked something out.
 
We looked for his thumb as there was a chance it could have been re attatched,unfortunately we think his dog ate it.
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Losing a body part is not good, however...

If they guy was a teacher the irony would be absolutely hysterical.

Brad
 
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