OUCH! S&W 500 Mag blows up.

Moonpie · Sep 21, 2017

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/20/sw-500-explodes-shooters-hand/

Yeeeesh......that would make you change your pants.

gwjohns · Sep 21, 2017

Wtf????

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Dawico · Sep 21, 2017

Supposedly it was factory ammo bought at the range where he rented the gun.

sucker76 · Sep 21, 2017

YIKES!!

Mikewood · Sep 21, 2017

That's pretty impressive. Typical 500s have a barrel that is threaded into the receiver and the barrel shroud is sleeved over the barrel. It's tensioned at the front by a barrel nut that compresses the shroud and tensions the barrel. I would guess this is either a squib or something else stuck in the forcing cone or rear of the barrel or maybe a frame with a fault or flaw in the metallurgy that resulted in the catastrophic failure.
The kid looks ok though. That's a real testament to how safe the guns are. Even when they fail they don't kill the operator.

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ZX9RCAM · Sep 21, 2017

Scary stuff!!

This story was down below original.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...-personality-fpsrussia-arrested-drug-charges/

sucker76 · Sep 21, 2017

I didn't think of a squib load with that caliber. I jumped to the thought of overload or bad metal in the frame.

Sugar Land · Sep 21, 2017

That was pretty brutal.

orbitup · Sep 21, 2017

I thought it looked less violent than the normal recoil from shooting one of those things.

easy rider · Sep 21, 2017

By trying to watch it frame by frame it looked as if most the flash was coming out the sides leading me to think of an obstruction.

Moonpie · Sep 21, 2017

My guess is an out of time cylinder.

robertc1024 · Sep 21, 2017

How in the hell could you not know you had a squib with one of those? Maybe your hand/wrist/arm didn't hurt after you shot it?

Mikewood · Sep 21, 2017

Moonpie said:
My guess is an out of time cylinder.

The S&W X frames are built like bank vaults. If your pulling the trigger or cocking the hammer the Cylinder is rolling. Once it rolls to fire the mechanism locks into place. I just pulled mine out of the safe and I can't make it go into battery without the cylinder properly indexed.

Moonpie · Sep 21, 2017

Mikewood said:
The S&W X frames are built like bank vaults. If your pulling the trigger or cocking the hammer the Cylinder is rolling. Once it rolls to fire the mechanism locks into place. I just pulled mine out of the safe and I can't make it go into battery without the cylinder properly indexed.

Yours is probably a well maintained firearm.
The revolver in the story who knows.
Look at the spark splatter in the photo. That backsplatter is from the bullet being shaved as it passes the cylinder gap. It doesn't take much on a round as powerful as the 500 to get things moving.
A squib stuck in the barrel would of bulged the barrel.

gwjohns · Sep 21, 2017

Moonpie said:
Yours is probably a well maintained firearm.
The revolver in the story who knows.
Look at the spark splatter in the photo. That backsplatter is from the bullet being shaved as it passes the cylinder gap. It doesn't take much on a round as powerful as the 500 to get things moving.
A squib stuck in the barrel would of bulged the barrel.

Yeah most ranges don’t maintain their rental fleet like they should

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Mikewood · Sep 21, 2017

robertc1024 said:
How in the hell could you not know you had a squib with one of those? Maybe your hand/wrist/arm didn't hurt after you shot it?

For as big and as bad as a full house 500 is the specials are pretty mild. Perhaps they were shooting specials and got a squib before they fired their first magnum.

Since this is a rental gun maybe they guy before them got the squib. Turned the gun in and the gun store didn't clear it before renting the gun back out.

Maybe they left part of a patch or debris in the bore.

Moonpie · Sep 21, 2017

I still would of had to change my pants. LoL

Maverick44 · Sep 21, 2017

I believe that range owes the shooter a new pair of pants.

topduarte · Sep 21, 2017

OUCH! S&W 500 Mag blows up.

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