When good guns go bad
 

In the past I did all of my shooting on private land. Now, due to a recent move, I' m forced to shoot more at the public range. Not knowing what the guy shooting beside me has in his gun, I' ve been wondering: What happens when a gun blows up? I' ve never seen it happen and neither have any of my friends.

This would be a good opportunity for some of you to reinforce the need for care in reloading.

I' d like to hear stories involving the accident; the cause and the results.

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Several years ago a guy at the local range in South Florida brought a brand new Weatherby chambered in 270 Weatherby. The store that sold him this gun sold him 270 Win ammunition by mistake.Needless to say there was a problem. The receiver came part firing the first shot. Thankfully he wasn' t hurt badly. He had some cuts and lacerations. He wanted wittnesses.I never heard anymore about it.Check and double check what ammunition you are using.It could be a costly mistake like this guy found out.
Ruger Redhawk

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He wanted witnesses?!?!?! Was that guy too stupid to check what ammo he was loading into his own gun? What a dumb a$$. He deserves to have his gun blown up.

Most of the time if someone loads a round that' s too hot it won' t blow up but just be hard to get out of the chamber. If you see someone having to tap or beat the bolt open you need to make sure that he stops shooting one way or the other.

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I' ll take RR story as testimony towards the quality of Weatherby. Any gun you can improperly load that doesn' t really hurt you is worth the money in my book. Sure a shooter should know better but we were all green once. I was fortunate enough to have guidance when I started shooting.

Good advice BB, however, I' ll just leave the range.

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I know were all green once, but that is the first thing that you should learn.

Kind of like puting diesel in your first Ferrari.

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Good analogy.

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Some of you are assuming that the fact the rifle was a weatherby prevented this idiot from being hurt more seriously.Most other modern bolt actions would have provided the same results.If you really do consider the fact that no one was badly injured as a testimony to the quality of weatherby rifles you must also take this incident as a testimony to the intelligence of weatherby owners.

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It seems to me that if a 270 Win cartridge fired in a 270 Weatherby Mag that it would be somewhat of a fluke. One would think the smaller 270 Win, having a more sloping shoulder and being slightly shorter would slide forward just enough in a 270 Weatherby chamber to keep the firing pin from striking the primer. I don' t doubt it happened, but it just seems unlikely. I wonder how many times the guy snapped on a cartridge before he actually got it to fire? As far as Weatherby rifles go, you can have them but that' s another topic for another day.

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Hey, it can happen to anyone. I was at the range a couple of weeks ago and brought severel rifles along in several different chamberings. I usually shoot on one bench and set my gear up on another bench next to me. After shooting a couple off the bench through my 03A3, I decided to practice from a prone position. I grabbed what I thought was my second box of 30-06 (I keep my reloads in those plastic boxes that hold 80 rds) and sarted to load the magazine. I got 5 rounds in the magazine and noticed that something didn' t look right and found that I had grabbed the wrong box off the bench and had loaded my rifle with 6.5x55. My blood ran cold and I ended up putting all of my ammunition I wasn' t shooting with the current rifle back in my truck just to make sure that this wouldn' t happen again. Familiarity with a firearms can be just as dangerous as ignorance at times!

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I' ve had one firearm let go on me last year. Iwas shooting some cheap remanufactured 9mm ammo through my beretta 92 when the gun made a report and recoil that seemed alot more like a .44 magnum than a 9mm. There was alot of blacksmoke, I was hit in the face hard by burning powder and small bits of brass. The trigger bar was blown completely out of the frame and had peeld the hard rubber grip back like a banana. The case head had blown out. The gun survived the incident- it just neede to be completely stripped apart, cleaned and inspected, though it took me a long time and alot of shooting to loose my fear of it and to stop flinching afterwards.

If I hadn' t been wearing glasses at the time, I would probably be blind right now