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My .50cal exploded in my face
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CrankyJay™
Member
Fuck. He’s lucky to be alive. That scar on his neck/chest is wicked. They had to completely open him up to repair his jugular and lung.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
Damn son, I always knew there was a reason I never trusted those screw-on breech .50 cals. The masterpiece of St. Browning is not something to fuck around with with cheap equipment.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Scary. Good reminder to take all safety precautions! Thanks for sharing!
I really like this guys videos and I'm incredibly relieved that he looks set to make a full recovery. It seems like the bullet itself was at fault... whether it was manufactured incorrectly, had degraded overtime etc, but the gun is also at fault here. With a "proper" rifle like a Barrett, he would still have been injured but the furniture around the bolt would have actually contained some of the blast instead of literally shooting everything into his face. It's a miracle the guy is alive because the screw on breech would likely have killed him had he not had eye protection, but when it blew away it ripped two shards off with it, one narrowly missed his head and the other severed his jugular and punctured his lung. He is probably only alive because as he says he plugged the whole with his thumb.
Amazingly he is still going to continue with the content, but I would seriously hope that he reconsiders shooting anything that is either a cheap 50 cal tube gun or a high power calibre that has gone out of production and has been lying around for who knows how long.
Amazingly he is still going to continue with the content, but I would seriously hope that he reconsiders shooting anything that is either a cheap 50 cal tube gun or a high power calibre that has gone out of production and has been lying around for who knows how long.
I used to have a .50 bmg upper. Not that style but it did sit on a normal AR lower.
Never got the courage to actually shoot it and sold it years later unfired. Just too much power in that round to take any chances IMHO.
Did like shooting Barret rifles though, those inspire confidence.
Never got the courage to actually shoot it and sold it years later unfired. Just too much power in that round to take any chances IMHO.
Did like shooting Barret rifles though, those inspire confidence.
The Hamburglar
Banned
The .50 bmg is lethal
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Someone get on that .50!
INC
Member
The most impressive thing is the fact those cheap safety glasses, ate that solid puck of steel
lukilladog
Member
Even better, do not shot those guns.
Guns aren't toys. They are made to kill.
It almost killed this man and he wasn't even shot by the gun.
A couple years ago I went to a shooting range (1st time) and shot a .45 and 9mm. Simply feeling the guns firing from my bare hand made me fear them, more than ever.
Good things he's alive and can share his experience.
It almost killed this man and he wasn't even shot by the gun.
A couple years ago I went to a shooting range (1st time) and shot a .45 and 9mm. Simply feeling the guns firing from my bare hand made me fear them, more than ever.
Good things he's alive and can share his experience.
Lone Wolf
Member
You shouldn’t fear them, you should respect them.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I know nothing about guns, but first thing I thought of was a scene in the movie The American.
INC
Member
Made in the USA?
Arkam
Member
Cant stand this guy's content. Its just Demolition Ranch 2.0.... and there are already a dozen people doing that. Just getting a 50BMG and shooting random shit to see it explode. That said glad he is ok. The real lesson here should be "Don't Buy Cheap!". That looks like a Serbu.... who make the cheapest/shittiest 50BMG rifles. Had he spent an extra grand (ish) he could have gotten a Barret M99.
INC
Member
If i was firing a 50cal, it would look more like this
And it warms my heart that you were concerned, like the nicest thing I've heard in years
bender
What time is it?
KrakenIPA
Member
INC
Member
Imping ain't easy
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Facts. Also a reason I stay away from stamped or 3D printed poor form metallurgy.
Tried and true quality forged receivers and uppers only.
KrakenIPA
Member
Horrible trigger discipline. He's all over the place. And sweaty.
RaptorGTA
Member
I had an instance where firing my AR-15 the 223 round hit a flat object and ricocheted back at me. However, what came back was only the brass casing which only had enough mass and force to dig into my neck...not really that far so wasn't any real blood. This was a private range so after it was found what I had hit and it was removed. No incident has happened since.
Lone Wolf
Member
Can you explain further because what you said doesn’t make sense. Brass casing is ejected out of the firearm, it doesn’t go down range. How did a casing come back at you?
ChanerRedone
Banned
Maybe he means the jacket? Jackets can be made of brass, but they're not the brass casing. Even if that's the case, that's still not ricochet. That's shrapnel.
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
My god the LUCK involved in this. Jesus Christ.
He should have gone out and bought lottery tickets after he made it home.
He should have gone out and bought lottery tickets after he made it home.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
Ehh, between the illiterate commie peasant rifle and the Right Arm of the Free World stamped receivers are alright when justified. I'd rather have a quality stamped receiver for any fighting rifle that I would actually want to own than add a half pound for dubious benefits. (assuming the rifle was designed with a stamped receiver)
daveonezero
Banned
AR15 lowers have been show to be very effective if printed. And reliable for 1000s of rounds.
Also Glock lowers. There is almost no catastrophic failure when a AR lower fails. All the pressure bering is tin the upper.
Virt McPolygon
Banned
I dunno why I laughed about this happening with a cheap folding table involved.
Gp1
Member
Curiously in another video Scot was shooting a .50 Glock with some shitty HP ammo. The bullet ricocheted down the range and landed at his feet.
Phoenix RISING
Banned
I also went to a range in the past year.
Knowing that I had an object that could take life in my hands terrified me.
As for the man in the video, how did he even maintain consciousness???
strange headache
Banned
So he used this flimsy thing...
...to shoot a bullet intended to be used with this...
I'm glad he survived and he sure is a badass for putting a thumb in his gaping neck-wound, but that was a prettydumb thumb thing to do.
...to shoot a bullet intended to be used with this...
I'm glad he survived and he sure is a badass for putting a thumb in his gaping neck-wound, but that was a pretty
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Patrick S.
Banned
Yeah, I think that muzzle brake was probably a big factor in that accident.So he used this flimsy thing...
...to shoot a bullet intended to be used with this...
I'm glad he survived and he sure is a badass for putting a thumb in his gaping neck-wound, but that was a prettydumbthumb thing to do.
