Good luck, Mike! 

 

 

 

 

Has anyone seen or heard of any stories about guns (rifles and pistols) blowing up???

 

I got 2 examples. In the Firearms Safety Workbook you have to study to get your gun licence over here in South Australia, on one page it gives you 4 examples of guns that have blown up.

 

1. Rifle chambered in 25-06. Person using it accidently put in a .308 Win by mistake. Person suffered severe facial injuries, partial hearing loss and total destruction of rifle.

 

2. Rifle chambered in .375 H&H. Reloader put in wrong propellant in cartridge (AR2206 instead of AR2209). Miraculously not seriously injured. Experts estimated chamber pressure exceeded 135,000 PSI with a flame temperature approaching 2000 Degrees Celsius.

 

3. 12 Gauge Pump Action. Fired with a cloth patch stuck in barrel. Burst barrel. Shooter lost several fingers.

 

4. Single Barrel 12 gauge. "was accidently fired with a steel pin blocking the breach. Cartridge would not open". Burst barrel. Reportedly killed shooter.

 

Finally one of my own. Shooter at this club I was a member of bought a secondhand Percussion rifle. Thread on the nipple was cactus. You can imagine what happened at the range when he put a load in, capped the nipple and then squeezed the trigger. He wasn't seriously injuried thank God.

 

Anyone got that picture floating around on the net of that guy who went out and bought an expensive gun and scope but IIRC forgot to remove his cleaning rod from his gun before he fired it. IIRC the picture is done so it looks like that "priceless" Mastercard advertisment.