Lucky guy, 50 cal explodes

[whitewalrus]

How is that different than a muzzleloader?

Or any other gun? There are only 2 openings in the barrel unless the bullet makes it down far enough to the gas port on autos that have one.

[whitewalrus]

I thought that the SLAP rounds weren't supposed to go thru anything except the machine guns? Didn't Barrett design a barrel for the m82 that had a different throat design or something for them?

[CS1983]

Or any other gun? There are only 2 openings in the barrel unless the bullet makes it down far enough to the gas port on autos that have one.

Because most other guns have to contend with things like bolt mass, mechanical lockup of lugs, standoff for the shooter's face and a design which provides exit points for the gasses/pressure in the event of a failure, etc.
It's not that there's something per se different about other barrels so much as what's between those other barrels and the breech end; it's that those other barrels' breech end aren't staring the shooter in the face at the 2nd most obvious place for pressure evacuation with virtually nothing stopping that process.

Even on a ML there's a design difference compared to slapping a threaded cap on the ass end of a .50 cal barrel like some redneck recoilless rifle w/ a shoulder stock.

[hollohas]

The more I think about this, the more I question that gun's design.

Modern muzzleloaders only have pressures around 20,000 IIRC. They have MUCH longer threads and a lot more metal behind the breech plug than that serbu 50.

The piss ant breech cap threads on that serbu 50 weren't even as long/deep as his finger when he showed them sheered off. I seriously question the engineering behind a threaded breech CAP. And the only support behind it being two thin metal wings? Literally nothing solid behind that breech. And it's supposed to be good to 85,000 psi?? Hmmm.

[hollohas]

I just read the description of this gun on their webpage, which reads...

"Represents the first time a production firearm has ever been inspired by social media. Designed in conjunction with youtube celebrity Royal Nonesuch".

Royal Nonesuch made videos of him designing, making and shooting homemade guns from hardware store parts basically.

One of the designers of this 50 literally makes hodgepodge guns in his garage.

That doesn't inspire much confidence.

[Duman]

I just read the description of this gun on their webpage, which reads...

"Represents the first time a production firearm has ever been inspired by social media. Designed in conjunction with youtube celebrity Royal Nonesuch".

Royal Nonesuch made videos of him designing, making and shooting homemade guns from hardware store parts basically.

One of the designers of this 50 literally makes hodgepodge guns in his garage.

That doesn't inspire much confidence.

Taking stupid in a whole new direction.

[Singlestack]

Darwin attracts the feeble minded

[exxonv]

Darwin attracts the feeble minded

"Stupid is as stupid does" - Forest Gump My son and I watched the video, he's 16, first question was "where did he buy the ammo" and second was "screw on a CAP for a .50 BMG"? Smart kid!

[flogger]

And people wonder why I always bitch about wearing eye pro. Without those cheap $5 glasses he would have also lost en eye.

I knew a guy in commercial construction who never needed to be reminded to wear eye protection, he had already lost one.

[Gman]

Never go "Full-Grebner".