Posted: 1/11/2004 10:00:48 AM EDT
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I don't know if this has been posted before but YIKES. www.thegunzone.com/m1akb.html#fn3 A little sample!! 
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After you read through all of the stuff about that it all comes down to the barrel was not up to snuff and that's what failed. "The barrel was a commercial medium weight contour barrel, not a GI barrel, and had no markings at all. So unless Chris knows who made it, it's not possible to know" |
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Quoted: After you read through all of the stuff about that it all comes down to the barrel was not up to snuff and that's what failed. "The barrel was a commercial medium weight contour barrel, not a GI barrel, and had no markings at all. So unless Chris knows who made it, it's not possible to know" Moral of the story, Buy Quality!!!! The guy who shot that is lucky, other than a few cuts and change of underwear, he came out alright!!!! |
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That story sure made waves about 2-3 years ago. The testwork on the no-name commercial barrel indicated a poorly heat treated barrel - held at too high a temp for too long. Basically the same story as old springfield actions. [url]http://www.thegunzone.com/m1akb/762r.html[/url] |
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Quoted: [url]http://www.thegunzone.com/m1akb/762d15.jpg[/url] [b][MacGyver]I can fix that with duct tape[/MacGyver][/b] MacGyver doesn't use guns though.. he'd take all the pieces and use some springs and pieces of metal to make an incredibly ingenious booby trap that sprayed a sedative into the face of his advarsary. |
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Nothing at all wrong with the ammunition. It was completely in spec. The problem was obviously the barrel. When you looked at both the barrel and the ruptured cartridge case you could see how the cartridge case was extruded into the corresponding cracks in the barrel BEFORE the case ruptured. If the case had ruptured first, the edges of the rupture would have been destroyed by high pressure, high temp gasses rather than simply broken like that. The barrel failed first, then the case ruptured when no longer adequately supported by the case. The Knee jerks spouted off for a few weeks about how horrible the ammunition was and how it could only be fired out of MG's and bolt actions. Meanwhile, the engineer types were saying..."hey wait a minute, that wasn't a case failure." |