Randy in Arizona
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Sport45 said:
Yup! saw some last night at the local Safeway in the charcoal, boyscout water, and cookout area. About a buck for a box of them.
What would happen if you stuck a wooden dowel down the barrel of a gun and fired it?
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Yup! saw some last night at the local Safeway in the charcoal, boyscout water, and cookout area. About a buck for a box of them.
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Might be good for shooting werewolfs, they need a wood stake dont they?
We used blanks to fire grenade simulators that fit over the FN FAL flash supressor. Closest Ive come to it.
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We used blanks to fire grenade simulators that fit over the FN FAL flash supressor. Closest Ive come to it.
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Mannlicher
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Darwin Award?
sure sounds like he is bucking for at least an honorable mention.
sure sounds like he is bucking for at least an honorable mention.
el44vaquero
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I'm pretty sure it's vampires that take a wooden stake.
cracked butt
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Nothing good.
I've seen rifle barrels bulged at the muzzle from being fired with nothing more than a little oil in the bore. I've seen a shotgun barrel split like a banana from what was thought to be a cleaning patch left in the barrel.
Guns aren't anything to screw around with.
bogie
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What worries me is that we've got enough kiddies/gamers that have gotten onto this board who _may_ someday get to play with a real boomstick, and remember vaguely that someone somewhere stuffed something down the bidness end and yanked on the trigger with "extreme" results.
GUYS. These things are NOT toys, and they can get you dead. Dead is sorta forever (yeah, yeah...). They can also cripple you. You ain't gonna get laid a lot of you're missing most of a hand and half your face... DO NOT BLEEP WITH THIS STUFF.
Think of it this way... If someone had suggested on the handloading forum that someone take a 180 grain .30-06 load, and just go ahead and substitute a 220 or 240 grain bullet, Johnny woulda been all over them...
GUYS. These things are NOT toys, and they can get you dead. Dead is sorta forever (yeah, yeah...). They can also cripple you. You ain't gonna get laid a lot of you're missing most of a hand and half your face... DO NOT BLEEP WITH THIS STUFF.
Think of it this way... If someone had suggested on the handloading forum that someone take a 180 grain .30-06 load, and just go ahead and substitute a 220 or 240 grain bullet, Johnny woulda been all over them...
Savage.250
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I know I'm a little late on this but what was the purpose of doing this anyway? Was there any particular reason for using a wooden dowl? Either way a wooden dowl seems as arbitrary as a marble, cork, alkaline batteries, chicklets or whatever else one could imagine ramming down a gun barrel. Being a beginner reloader this whole idea doesn't seem worth the time contiplating. Unknown/high pressures are something great care is taken to avoid completely.
I guess I just don't get it.
I guess I just don't get it.
bogie
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It's because somehere, somehow, some bubba stuffed a stick down the bore, and got results.
A note to whatever shooter may be thinking about doing this: This can KILL you, or do things like send pieces of your action through your FACE, ultimately into whatever idiot part of your alleged brain thought that sticking foreign objects down a high pressure rifle's bore.
All I know is that I was at the same range where a negligent shooter had a 6-8" piece of cleaning rod in his bore, and it killed him.
A note to whatever shooter may be thinking about doing this: This can KILL you, or do things like send pieces of your action through your FACE, ultimately into whatever idiot part of your alleged brain thought that sticking foreign objects down a high pressure rifle's bore.
All I know is that I was at the same range where a negligent shooter had a 6-8" piece of cleaning rod in his bore, and it killed him.
"A loose fitting dowel would just shoot out the barrel"
Bull. I destroyed a brand new NEF/H&R .223 bull barrel. The chamber was very tight and the .223 casing would not eject. I was using a cleaning rod to tap them out. The rifling in the barrel unscrewed the end section of the rod. I fired it. It shattered the trigger guard, warped the bottom part of the gun, blew out the pins, busted the mainspring, cracked the lens in a good scope, and the hammer went through the bill of my hat. Should have got some stitches in my right hand but was so mad I just taped it. I sent the gun to NEF for rebuild, they refused to consider rebuilding it and also would not send it back to me. It was completely unsafe. I worked out a deal and they sold me a new one at cost.
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Bull. I destroyed a brand new NEF/H&R .223 bull barrel. The chamber was very tight and the .223 casing would not eject. I was using a cleaning rod to tap them out. The rifling in the barrel unscrewed the end section of the rod. I fired it. It shattered the trigger guard, warped the bottom part of the gun, blew out the pins, busted the mainspring, cracked the lens in a good scope, and the hammer went through the bill of my hat. Should have got some stitches in my right hand but was so mad I just taped it. I sent the gun to NEF for rebuild, they refused to consider rebuilding it and also would not send it back to me. It was completely unsafe. I worked out a deal and they sold me a new one at cost.
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U.S.SFC_RET
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I hear the topic of myth busters come up alot. Those are controlled experiments with weapons. Do you think for one minute that they show those tapes to you totally unedited? Think again. They won't, they will get what they want and then show it. Myth busters isn't gospel, isn't science and people get suckered into believing that it is. It is what it is "junk science" for entertainment.
When they shot the rifle with a piece of wood stuck in the muzzle I wonder if they sent the weapon in to be examined for minute cracks.
When they shot the rifle with a piece of wood stuck in the muzzle I wonder if they sent the weapon in to be examined for minute cracks.
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