Check your gun often.

   / Check your gun often. #11  
/ For all the mythbusters fans out there:

So can we call this one :Busted, Plausible or Confirmed?/? :D:D:D
 

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   / Check your gun often. #12  
Mythbusters was full of **** on that particular episode. My dad has owned a gunshop/gun repair service/refinishing service for over 15 years. I've seen more than one rifle that it has happened to. Usually a plug buldges the barrel on rifles but not always--every once in a while it does more serious damage. The banna peel effect is usually seen on damascus shotguns but can happen on steel shotguns and chromemolly/stainless rifles as well.
 
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   / Check your gun often. #13  
MB even tried a "vintage" demascus without it happening.

Oh well >>> "Well call this one confirmed" :D
 
   / Check your gun often. #14  
When I was in the army we had this guy who would punch the ends out of blanks we were using and pour the powder into the barrel. Then he plugs the barrel with mud. When it came time to run the assault I got down on the end of the assault line. And, kept an eye on him. About half way through the assault problem, he touches it off, was quite a site to see that M1 coming from together to apart.
Blank powder was far more potent then than powder used in live rounds.
IT CAN HAPPEN! In fact it becomes a pipe bomb. :(
PS He bought the M1!
 
   / Check your gun often. #15  
Yes, black powder is very nasty stuff under the wrong conditions! I believe that in compressed form they call it dynamite! I'm not suprised to see peeled back barrels. I saw some pictures of tests of heavy BP loads with an obstruction in heavy black powder barrels and the barrels were blown to pieces.:eek:
 
   / Check your gun often. #17  
I noticed it was raining in the video. I wonder if the barrel had water in it? I always put scotch tap over end of my barrel to keep water out, does not affect the shot. My 3 uncles in WW2 used to put the condoms they were issued over the barrels of their M1s.
 
   / Check your gun often. #18  
When I was a kid, I loaded a shell in the shotgun and as I closed the bolt, the shell blew up.

This happened to me when I was 10.

My Dad died of cancer when I was 10. Everyone said I had to be the man of the house now and protect my Mom and sisters. We lived in a two story house in Chicago. I got my Dad's 12 gauge single shot and decided I'd better load it in case someone broke in. When I closed the breach it went off. I didn't have my finger on the trigger either. It was pointed at my bedroom floor upstairs. The floor had a knotty pine linoleum and I figured I could hide the little hole next to the bed. In the mean time my Mom is screaming from downstairs. I yelled down that it was a blank, figuring I can hide that hole. Now I had no idea how powerful a 12 ga. was. I had only shot a pellet rifle before. When I got downstairs you could not see across the kitchen for the plaster dust. I said "HOLY ****". I got in trouble for that too. My uncle, and I helped, repaired the damage and he took the gun home. fortunately my Mom was not in the kitchen. The Lord was watching out for my stupid self that day.
 
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   / Check your gun often. #19  
I always put a 1/4" by 1/4" piece of electrical tape in front of my gun barrel to avoid getting dirt and stuff in it or even some rain water to freeze in the barrel in cold kansas during hunting season. I certainly don't want to use a bullet to clear my gun barrel.:eek:

JC,

Ps. I keep replenishing the tape after each gun discharge/kill during hunting season.
 

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