Not hitting the target...yeah, just keep shootin'

[VMI77]

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[howdy]

On my!!!

[The Annoyed Man]

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An old shooting buddy of mine who has since passed but who was a L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy for most of his adult life told me that they did this as an experiment once at the Sheriff departments shooting range. They deliberately slugged a barrel with lead at the muzzle and then fired rounds down the barrel to see when/if it would fail. The gun was whatever S&W model .357 magnum the LACSD was carrying at the time. The test results were almost identical to this. Amos said that the bullets just stacked up in the barrel, producing a slight bulge; and what eventually stopped the test was that the top strap of the gun stretched enough that the cylinder would no longer rotate. But the gun did not ever blow up.

One of the things that is interesting to me in the original image is that you can see fracture lines radiating backward at an angle between bullets 1-5 as counted backward from the muzzle; and then at bullets 6-8, you can see "tee-pee" shapes in the crystalline structure of the steel, presumably created by the shock of impact from the bullet into the back of the one in front of it.

[jimlongley]

It's a revolver, so there's a way for the gas to escape except for that trapped between projectiles, which assisted in causing the bulge.