One of the better rifle blow ups................

Yeah that is a good one, it has been around for about a year.
 
The question I had, did he hit his target? Seeing as how the rifle was no great loss.
 
My question is "Was this staged?". It appears as if it was all planned, then filmed. People will do some pretty crazy things for publicity.
 
Ice in the Barrel or water it was raining,could've been freezing also. A good ol band aid will cure that issue.
 
I was curious also

if he hit the elk. The other guy would have shot if he hadn't, eh? Perhaps not if they were filming it ;)
 
Not sure but I think SAKO recalled some rifles due to defective barrels some years ago.
 
It was a Sako Tikka, I think--in '04 they had a batch of barrels come out with some real bad metallurgy. Ugly. If you think safety glasses impair your hunting vision, try shooting with an eyepatch....or a white cane and guidedog.
 
Do you reckon that is why Kreiger will not do small contour SS hunting barrels? They tried 410 Stainless for a while to get away from the SS blowups and decided to just quit with the 410 and small diameter rifle barrels. I don't blame them.
Butch
 
I think that was a Browning A bolt with a barrel obstruction... at least the bolt knob sure appears to be a Browning... and the action looks slab sided... and the barrel definitely split the way an obstruction does.

And it doesn't get cold enough anywhere people hunt to affect a stainless rifle barrel.

The Sako's that failed due to a metallurgy problem were way worse of a blow up and had nothing to do with cold temperature either.
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Dennis Sorensen said:
I think that was a Browning A bolt with a barrel obstruction... at least the bolt knob sure appears to be a Browning... and the action looks slab sided... and the barrel definitely split the way an obstruction does.

And it doesn't get cold enough anywhere people hunt to affect a stainless rifle barrel.

The Sako's that failed due to a metallurgy problem were way worse of a blow up and had nothing to do with cold temperature either.
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Thank you Dennis.

al
 
Ballon or Condom

I was taught the correct way to use both to keep water/ice out of the barrel on guard duty.
 
Generally a tapered barrel with an obstruction near the muzzle, such as mud or ice, will blow off the end of the barrel close to the obstruction. Sometimes the break is so clean it looks like the barrel was cut off squarely.
If the obstruction is just in front of the chamber it will more likely blow out the cartridge base, or blow out the bolt with little damage other than the breech of the barrel being swollen.
If the ruptured case vents high temp gases into the locking recesses it can rupture the receiver ring, and the barrel usually remains intact other than distortion and swelling.
When a barrel splits lengthwise its almost always a matter of burnt steel or microfractures in the barrel. When the barrel splits it can often split the receiver ring as well, probably from direct impingement of high pressure gas along the line of the split.

When they tried bumping up the breech portion of undersized barrel blanks intended for M1917 rifles there were incidents of barrels splitting lengthwise, generally the damage was due to a plugged bore or the wrong ammo ( like 303 or 7.92 ammo chambered by mistake) , but the pattern of barrel failure was due to the heating and bumping up process.

Internal cracks, such as craze cracks, can result in chunks of the inside of the bore breaking loose to obstruct the bore.
 
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