Safety Reminder

[ScouT6a]

Gun owners, for the most part, are a pretty safe bunch but never take for granted what's going on, inches from your face, every time you pull a trigger, ladies and gentlemen.

No, this did not happen to me. I bought this shotgun in it's present condition. I don't know the fate of it's previous owner or what caused the failure but I can't believe that they walked away without some type of injury.

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[M67]

Damascus barrel that someone stuck too many smokeless shells through?

Edit:

Was on my phone earlier. Isn't damascus barrel. Just a rough old shotgun that someone maybe stuck a turkey load in and it gave way. Or it fell or had something dropped on it and to get the bulge out someone tried to shoot it out.

But yes, good reminder of the controlled explosion just inches of from your face.

 

[ScouT6a]

No, "modern" steel barrels.

 

[DRob]

Yikes. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't shoot a gun that looked as bad as that one must have before it blew up. Or, maybe it rusted after it blew Uncle Jethro's eye out.

On closer look, does all that rust in the chamber mean a paper shell was left in there for a long time and attracted moisture?

 

[BogWalker]

From what I'm seeing chamber doesn't look rusted enough to give way unless there was some very heavy rust on the missing part.

My money is a bad drop weakened it and an over pressure scenario killed it. I'd say bore blockage, but those tend to occur closer to the muzzle and blow it out there. Chamber explosion is what makes me think that over pressure had something to do with it.

 

[JettaKnight]

I hope he was left handed.

 

[Tactically Fat]

May be old enough to have been a "wrapped wire" barrel?

It matters not. Whoever was shouldering that when it blew up probably still has nightmares.

 

[singlesix]

Why did you buy it?

 

[halfmileharry]

He may need an eye patch and a parrot now.
That blow out looks severe

 

[littletommy]

Why did you buy it?

It could be a cool wall hanger. But yeah, that's the first question that popped into my mind, too.

 

[bwframe]

Looks like there is still one good barrel.

 

[YETB]

I hope he was left handed.

Either way - not pretty

 

[snorko]

Why did you buy it?

I used to have a couple failed barrels I used for teaching purposes in Hunter Safety courses. I've always understood that max pressure in a shotgun is reached 10" to 12" down the barrel. Explains why failures are typically there.

 

[JettaKnight]

Why did you buy it?

Get $100 during a gun "buyback".



(Not really a buyback if they weren't the ones that sold them, is it?)

 

[ScouT6a]

I bought several guns off of a guy and he threw this one in on the pile. I just sold it for the usable parts that were on it. It was worth $100 to the buyer.

 

[biggen]

Any chance that's a model 24 Winchester?

 

[ScouT6a]

Any chance that's a model 24 Winchester?

No, Sir. It was a Stevens 5100. Forerunner of the 311. Parts are interchangeable.