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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: gryphon on August 31, 2015, 03:08:15 PM

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DRnjKsvqII
Title: Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
Post by: linux203 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.
Title: Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
Post by: part deux 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
Title: Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
Post by: gryphon 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.
Title: Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Exploding shotgun barrel
Post by: TheQ on September 03, 2015, 10:53:51 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.