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Not even this gun survived the pressure!
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:53 pm
by Legendpilot
I had to share this. Amazing..
.308 - This person was bore sighting with a laser and forgot to take it out.
(I don't know him/her)
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:55 pm
by benstern
that is the coolest ting i have ever seen!!!!!!!!
he should shoot it like that!!!
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:56 pm
by Claybob86
that looks unhealthy. and what is bore sighting? i assume its some kind of plug in the end of the barrel?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:57 pm
by squeaks
wait, what did he forget to take out?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:05 pm
by Legendpilot
Apparently they were using a bore mounted laser to sight in the rifle. When a live round was fired, the laser was still in the bore. -Lp
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:06 pm
by judgment_arms
What idiot did that!?! He “forgot” well what if he “forgot” that the gun was loaded and accidentally pointed the gun at someone and pulled the trigger. More people are killed each year by guns that people “forgot” they were loaded, then by loaded guns.
But I can’t talk much, I stuck a .22call pellet down the barrel of my .22lr Henry, naturally it got stuck and took nigh on an hour to clear it…
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:12 pm
by Insomniac
Wow........thats amazing. Goes to show the power solid propellents can produce.......I wonder how much pressure was in the barrel when it blew????
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:16 pm
by iknowmy3tables
he better not join the military and "forget" that he mounted a rifled grenade,
but man that looks frigging awsome
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:40 pm
by squeaks
I don't beleive it could have happened. It is harder to blow a barrel up than you think. That bannana peeling looks oddly fake. If the mythbusters did everything they could try to bust a barrel like that(including welding the barrel shut) and only got a slight bulge in the barrel then there is no way they could get this extreme of an effect.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:49 pm
by Torch
Yea, it's fake. The sighter would have just blown out and caused damage to the barrel. But not THAT much damage..
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:52 pm
by Bluetooth
Wouldn't it grenade and send shrapnel out, not peel like a banana.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:55 pm
by Insomniac
On second thoughts, I agree it looks fake......Wouldn't the laser be a bit more damaged????
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:08 pm
by schmanman
stupid. fake. a waste of a gun. 'nuff said. 8)
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:30 pm
by ProfessorAmadeus
Poor .308.
Why someone would do this I dont know. Plus if it did do this it would be one tear along the rifleing in the barrel. Those bore sighters fit in the barrel loose enough that it would not be able to hold the extreme pressure that is needed to do that. And it looks like it is cut.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:54 pm
by Bluetooth
Thats a good point, the one about it tearing in the thinest part: the rifling.