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Offline gryphon

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Exploding shotgun barrel
« on: August 31, 2015, 03:08:15 PM »
The hunters didn't think this would happen.  Neither did I.

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Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2015, 05:42:02 PM »
Sadly, he committed a felony.  He manufactured a Title II weapon without first paying a tax.  Possession of an unregistered Short Barrel Shotgun is a felony punishable by 10 years in prison.

And THAT is how gun laws punish law-abiding citizens.

Also, I didn't see that coming either.
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Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2015, 10:33:54 PM »
Here, hold my beer and lets shoot a gun into the water and not wear safety glasses
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Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2015, 11:01:51 PM »
Well, you can do that with rifles and pistols, but I guess a shotgun barrel is too thin.  I read that it's only about one third the thickness of a rifle barrel.
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Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2015, 04:01:01 AM »
The results may have been different with a fully submerged barrel and chamber. In this particular case, the water partway up the barrel appears to have made a rather effective plug, thus shearing the barrel off just above the plug thus formed.
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Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2015, 10:53:51 AM »

Quote from: mosnar87 on September 03, 2015, 04:01:01 AM
The results may have been different with a fully submerged barrel and chamber. In this particular case, the water partway up the barrel appears to have made a rather effective plug, thus shearing the barrel off just above the plug thus formed.

I agree. The shot was moving fully normally until the explosion pressure hit the water. At which point (given the speed it was moving) it may as well hit a thick, wielded in, steel plug. It would have had the same outcome.
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