Too late. Now she's all scared. As am I.Don't watch this while your wife is around.
Apparently I am no longer allowed to shoot 50 BMG.
Glad he is alive. Really enjoy Kentucky Ballistics. Hope he has a speedy recovery.
In no time it'll be "WATER MEEELOOON TIME!!!"
Seriously. Near as I can tell, it's one giant zip gun. Not much more than a piece of plumbing pipe with a threaded cap on one end. (I'm sure the metallurgy is better than plumbing pipe, but you get my point.)Ouch...
Never been a fan of that design. Now I know why.
It could be. I'm going to make some arguments, but I'm not going to be dogmatic since there's obviously a component of speculation that can't be eliminated.I don't think it would. He said "over 85,000 psi". His terminology throughout the video is not very exact. He probably misinterpreted or misquoted Serbu. This thing looks like a piece of junk, but Mark Serbu knows better than to build any gun that would have that low of a safety margin.
SAAMI standard for the .30-06 is 60000 psi and the proof load is 86000 psi.
Maybe Serbu tested these guns with proof loads at similar pressures, and they held up to them, and he told this guy "well, it must have been higher than that".
Maybe some injuries to your support hand and arm from pieces of the stock. The trigger group might come out of the gun hard enough to injure your strong hand. Bolt actions are not only very strong, but they generally have a secondary safety feature to prevent the bolt from coming backwards out of the action in the event that there's a failure.If there was a catastrophic fail like this in my bolt action rifle what would happen??
Are you serious?I'm pulling the projectiles on all my milsurp 1982 Korean M2 Ball ammo and reloading with new powder.
To play devils advocate....how would the end user know about the storage life of ammo from decades past?First off, there's nothing wrong with surplus ammo as long as it's been stored correctly.
Its to redirect escaping gas in the even of a cartridge rupture.....Ians video about "gun go booms" explains it pretty well.
When I still had my AMAC, I used to continually be plagued by goofs trying to get me to shoot; custom, performance or one-offs through it.
Nothing EVER but U.S.G.I. surplus EVER went through my .50.
Not a perfect solution to the potential issue but not begging a problem either.
Todd.
I showed a friend the video today about the slap round failure, first thing out of his mouth was the round was only meant for M2 machine guns, not for any gun with a muzzle brake.
After watching the video multiple times and looking at screen captures that were posted on another site, the ammo isn't surplus it's reloads!
The SLAP-T projo is real but by looking at the brass and the crimp, you can see that the rounds are reloads. Whoever loaded it had no clue of what they were doing and the guy in the video had no clue of what he had. He even said it in the video!!!
Why he shot questionable ammo at all screams clueless! Just because you own firearms doesn't mean that you're an expert in ammunition! If you didn't load it, why would you shoot it in your firearms?! Again, clueless! This is one of the first things you learn about reloading or buying ammo.
Not begging for problems is a good thing, but I am not sure that this would not have happened with a USGI round.
Hard to say either way other than noting the amount of SLAP and other *exotic* G.I. rounds we shot out of AMACs and Barretts with muzzle devices attached. Could be luck - could be we made our own luck.
Todd.
Your right on that point. From watching the video, he had to have known something was wrong when the rounds weren't hitting anywhere near where he was aiming at, as well as the increase of recoil.I think Kentucky Ballistics made his own luck as well, bad luck.
FoOuch...
Never been a fan of that design. Now I know why.
I got a hold of a bad batch of IMR 4831 sometime in the early 90s. I didn’t know it was bad of course, and over the years I loaded a whole bunch of rounds with it including a bunch of 270s. Some of those rounds sat on my ammo shelf for close to a decade, and unbeknownst to me the powder was deteriorating inside the brass casings the whole time. I discovered this when I had a case head blow out with a full power load in my Savage 110. Some of the powder had deteriorated to nitric acid and was eating its way through the case walls, which I discovered after I pulled apart the remaining rounds. Not only was the brass weakened but the bullets were corroded tight to the case mouth. Who knows what the uncorking pressure of those things was?
Per his description, it was "bent into a "W" shape," and later he stated it was fixed with surgical pins.I didn't see anything happen to his left hand that would have necessitated that splint.