Posted: 4/18/2024 7:42:47 PM EDT
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Well, kaboom might be an overstatement but there's a lesson here for everyone. Read on. In the 90s, a friend (different friend than the M1-A Kaboom) was shooting his FN FAL Heavy Barrel (a beautiful rifle BTW). I was not there and it doesn't matter anyway. He was shooting offhand, and fired a single round WITHOUT A MAGAZINE IN THE GUN. The case head failed, and launched a large chunk of brass downward thru the empty mag well into his abdomen. It lodged in his kidney (!), requiring emergency surgery. I have no idea what kind of ammo he was shooting. It doesn't matter. Lesson: when shooting a magazine-fed rifle, KEEP A FRIGGING MAGAZINE IN THE GUN. Had there been a mag in his gun, it likely would have absorbed the case head failure and saved a trip the the ER. BTW, the rifle was 100% A-OK. AFAIK he still has it. |
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Quoted: I thought in the last thread people were upset that the story had no pictures. Why are we doing the same thing here? 90s and cell phone pics don't mix. You want he should send you a pic of his surgery scar? Or maybe a dick pic? Provide your personal email, I'll see if I can hook you up. 
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Quoted: I only made this thread to rustle your jimmies. Mission accomplished. Quoted: Quoted: You just have to trust me and I'm going to start a thread about it so others will learn from this tale of woe. I only made this thread to rustle your jimmies. Mission accomplished. So it didn't really happen then? You was just fibbin? |
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Quoted: These two things are true: 1. It happened. 2. Your jimmies, they got rustled. I consider that a Win-Win. A double win. Quoted: Quoted: So it didn't really happen then? You was just fibbin? These two things are true: 1. It happened. 2. Your jimmies, they got rustled. I consider that a Win-Win. A double win. No rustling occurred. I anxiously await your next thread "Beware the Dangers of 556 in a rifle chambered for 223!" |
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TZ surplus from 81 or 83 had all kinds of KB issues for me. I acquired a small pile of it in a slightly larger pile of stuff I bought from a dude that had to get rid of all his gun stuff. Before I quit shooting it, I had 2 case head failures in my fal and my stepdad had one in his m1a. In both cases, the explosion went out through the magazine, blowing their guts and whatever ammo was left in them all over the ground. No injuries were sustained. Upon closer inspection, a lot of the fired cases has two ~1/8" cracks running rim to mouth maybe 1/2" up from the rim. My stepdad pulled about 100 of them down to start with and found a good number of them had powder that was clumpy. He averaged the charges from a bunch of the non clumpy ones and reduced it by 10% and reassembled the batch and we fired a few hundred of them without issue, so he pulled down and reloaded the rest while he was recovering from a medical issue. I've probably fired 500 that he " fixed " but I still don't trust it to shoot in nicer rifles. Lol |
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Quoted: TZ surplus from 81 or 83 had all kinds of KB issues for me. I acquired a small pile of it in a slightly larger pile of stuff I bought from a dude that had to get rid of all his gun stuff. Before I quit shooting it, I had 2 case head failures in my fal and my stepdad had one in his m1a. In both cases, the explosion went out through the magazine, blowing their guts and whatever ammo was left in them all over the ground. No injuries were sustained. Upon closer inspection, a lot of the fired cases has two ~1/8" cracks running rim to mouth maybe 1/2" up from the rim. My stepdad pulled about 100 of them down to start with and found a good number of them had powder that was clumpy. He averaged the charges from a bunch of the non clumpy ones and reduced it by 10% and reassembled the batch and we fired a few hundred of them without issue, so he pulled down and reloaded the rest while he was recovering from a medical issue. I've probably fired 500 that he " fixed " but I still don't trust it to shoot in nicer rifles. Lol Case failures are inevitable, whether you shoot handloads or new ammo. The question is what happens with the 50k psi of gas that results? "Aye, there's the rub." |
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Quoted: It lodged in his kidney (!), requiring emergency surgery. Lesson: when shooting a magazine-fed rifle, KEEP A FRIGGING MAGAZINE IN THE GUN. Had there been a mag in his gun, it likely would have absorbed the case head failure and saved a trip the the ER. thank you for that valuable safety lesson. |
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OP's previous denunciation of the M14 bolt design: https://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/2719900_M1-A-goes-KABOOM.html |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/64501/5A484EB8-C84A-4A26-B05D-9311EEF69EAE_jpe-3191745.JPG You’re welcome Lou. That's actually not bad! |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/64501/5A484EB8-C84A-4A26-B05D-9311EEF69EAE_jpe-3191745.JPG You’re welcome Lou. Needs more crayon. |
