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I got these pics from an email that someone sent me.

I've seen that before out at Alpine, except it was a two-way split, not 4-way.

Hard to imagine anyone could overlook a big....honking....red bore-sighter hanging off the end of the barrel.

Maybe it was an honest mistake, bore sight vs laser sight. Scary thought?

WOW not seen that one before...mistakes usually cost money and are easy to learn from. I hope no one was hurt.

OOOOH...dat waskally wabbit!

A friend of mine made a barrel much like that out of a Remington 1100. While duck hunting he somehow managed to get mud in his barrel, and you can figure out the rest. He had to buy a new barrel AND new trousers. Not his proudest moment.

They tried to reproduce this on mythbusters, showing those exact photos. I forget if they called it plausible or busted but they weren't able to reproduce it. There was some damage but nothing quite like the photo shows.

atxgun wrote:They tried to reproduce this on mythbusters, showing those exact photos. I forget if they called it plausible or busted but they weren't able to reproduce it. There was some damage but nothing quite like the photo shows.

They stuffed it with a finger I think, and then welded something onto it. It obviously works, I've seen it before.

WarHawk-AVG wrote:OOOOH...dat waskally wabbit!

One can consider it a good day when muzzle blows open and not the breech.

Liberty wrote:One can consider it a good day when muzzle blows open and not the breech.

IIRC, the action on this one is a 1917 Enfield; just behind the 6.5 Arisaka as the strongest breech on any normal-caliber small arms. I've heard of them being used for some monster cartridges. You could probably rebarrel that one and keep on shooting.

Liberty wrote:One can consider it a good day when muzzle blows open and not the breech.

I had a distant cousin shooting his own reloads in his 300 Savage and the breech blew up. He still carries the scars and powder burns from it.

Now back to the subject at hand.

Pinkycatcher wrote:

atxgun wrote:They tried to reproduce this on mythbusters, showing those exact photos. I forget if they called it plausible or busted but they weren't able to reproduce it. There was some damage but nothing quite like the photo shows.

They stuffed it with a finger I think, and then welded something onto it. It obviously works, I've seen it before.

They could not reproduce anything like this with modern barrels. Even when they put a steel finger in the barrel an welded it shut. They had to get an antique barrel that was made a certain way before it split and even at that it did not split but a little bit.

Then Mythbusters did something wrong, it's happened before with a boresight, which is a lot less pressure than welded steel fingers. Mythbusters shouldn't be taken as a valid science experiment, they allow too many free variables in experiments in my opinion.