Indians For Guns

I wanted to share this with you guys, just thought its interesting....
The Culprit, a bore guide, a reminder to check barrels for obstructions...

Nice one, Sharief!

Just showed it to both my boys.

Mack The Knife

Hi Sharief,
Any details available abt the rifle/ammoetc in this particular case?

I could'nt find any details about this incident. I think its one of those incidents that gets threaded from one forum to the next to the next. I saw this on Trapshooters.com on two various threads but no details in either of them, just smart comments poking fun at the poor miserable owner of the gun.

Sharief,

It was a Savage 110 series gun that got blown up because of a bore obstruction. The news was on OLN as well ason several forums.

Unlike the Sakos and Blasers that were blown up this was not a gun that failed because of poor quality control.

Cheers,

Mehul

I can sympathisize with the poor gentleman, but I wish I could have seen his eyes when he looked up over the scope after pulling the trigger.....

Of course I can laugh because I've been there too, just not THIS expensively!

Some years ago there was a gentleman killed at a benchrest match when he forgot to remove the cleaning rod from the barrel.

Just goes to show you that constant vigilance is always needed when dealing with things bigger than you are, and that includes energy levels.

Mark, to have seen that guys` eyes you would have had to be standing in front of the rifle.........................
There are several reports every year of shooters forgetting to remove their rods from muzzle loaders.......anyone for high speed archery ? I`ve not heard of any barrel failures though.
I saw the report of the speghetti barrel above a while ago. Not the first time that I`ve seen one and the Birmingham Proof House has some superb examples.

My God this is so scary, I hope never to see this in real life. So such a beautiful rifle now becomes a wall flower.

Regards,

Dev

have seen a 303 rifle belonging to the homeguards here in Aizawl blowup like this one. Some wasps had built a home in one of the barrels kept in storage and the soldier fired his weapon without inspecting the barrel. Luckily he wasnt injured.

Jonah

dev";p="5888 wrote:So such a beautiful rifle now becomes a wall flower.

I suppose it could always be rebarreled. Probably already is by now.

Mack The Knife

My view on the barrel blow out:-

The fellow was sighting in his rifle using a bore sighter and then decided to fire a shot to check the zero forgeting to remove the bore sighter.


penpusher

You are right penpusher.The shooter was using a boresight which he forgot to take off.Read on a different forum.

Best-
Vikram

The Blaser that made the news was exonerated by the german proof house, the culprit was a massive overload of the wrong powder in a handload. The Sako, the stainless version, had the wrong barrel steel, there is nothing wrong or weak about the M75 action as such. If you get either at a good price, don't pass it up. Cheers.