JTW Jr.
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Great picts , I place eye safety right up there with rifle safety features
Not to be a dick, but why is your eye protection on your forehead?
Sure, they look cool up there but they certainly can't protect your eyes from that position.
BSW
My eye protection was right where it needs to be - in front of my eyes. I wear eyepro 100% of time. You'll have to find the guy in the photo and ask him yourself; I can't answer for him.Not to be a dick, but why is your eye protection on your forehead?
Sure, they look cool up there but they certainly can't protect your eyes from that position.
This is also true for that photo.I assure you that he's not about to fire that weapon.
You'd be hard pressed to find a photographer sufficiently obtuse to sit at that angle from a .50 BMG muzzle brake...
Zak Smith said:This load is way under max so in conjunction with the head condition it is unlikely it was overpressure. My money is on freak case defect.
Take this with a grain of salt, because I haven't a .50BMG, and my experience with one is limited, but understanding the stresses that the brass undergoes when fired from a M2 I would feel more secure with the IMI/Barrett stock that you have.Do I shoot even the more recent LC, or just stick with the IMI and Barrett brass that I know was not fired in machineguns?
Good example of why one should always wear eye protection. Not all actions handle escaped gas that well.
Have to agree with that too, you are unlikely to ever repeat the event, but why tempt fate? I would use what I had (excepting this lot), and use brass of known origin (not MG brass) henceforward.On the other hand LC brass is used extensively for all manner of .50 loads that are going to be shot in bolt guns, and reports of this type of event are very rare.
Speaking of which, this thread is like an AISC convention, failures are like Engineer attractant.Good to know some engineers somewhere thought of those rifle safety features though...
Hmm, suppose I just assumed that you were an ME, due to your suppressor business. We won't hold too much against you.In my real job I am a verification engineer, which - I half-joke to my wife - is about asking inappropriate questions to see what answers I get.
Zak Smith said:1858, No kidding. Impossible to predict case defects are kind of scary once you start to think about them! I'd love to get to the bottom of what caused the problem - please email or PM me privately and I'll mail you the cut-off case head.
Zak Smith said:One other general note is that the case wall thickness on the end part we cut off is approx 0.015" different from thick side to thin side, but the crack was not on the thin side-- it was halfway between the two.