BOOM! S&W fail....

[Man With A Gun...]

 

[fuelfather]

What the hell happened to that good looking piece. it looks like the rounds on either side fired.

 

[DCortez]

Wow!

 

[cbigclarke]

DETAILS DAMIT!! we need details

 

[hkusp1]

holy soiled tights batman!!!! it makes me want to cry every time i see a perfectly good gun go KABOOM.

 

[M. Sage]

What the hell happened to that good looking piece. it looks like the rounds on either side fired.

Probably went off when the one behind the barrel blew into those bores. Kind of like sympathetic detonation.

 

[Skip]

Pretty incredible pics...

 

[MadMo44Mag]

Daam!!!
Hope no one was hurt!
That's one of the Holy Shit moments you never forget!
What happened????

 

[Acetone]

Ouch!

 

[Texsun]

Safety glasses please everyone!....This scares the living daylights outta me.

 

[Man With A Gun...]

Sorry guys, no story to tell. I saw this on another forum and thought I would share...

 

[Eli]

Bad primers would be my guess, smokeless doesn't do sympathetic explosions that I know of. Much more common on black power cap and ball revolvers.

Eli

 

[Hawghauler]

Ouch. I'll bet that left a mark.

 

[treyw]

I've seen some pretty bad failures with reloads that pushed pressures a little too far. Buddy of mine overloaded a .45 LC here recently. Gladly when he pulled the trigger in his Blackhawk the only damage done was it unseated the bullet on the next round in the cylinder.

 

[jdh]

That was not a S&W fail. That was an operator error.

The rounds on either side did not fire. The bullet would not be still at the end of the charge hole had the primer ignited the powder.

That is a test book example of over loaded cartridge damage in an S&W revolver.

 

[M. Sage]

Bad primers would be my guess, smokeless doesn't do sympathetic explosions that I know of. Much more common on black power cap and ball revolvers.

Eli

All it takes is a spark in that powder...

But you're right, looking at it again it doesn't look like that happened. More like the gases coming by from the (probably overloaded) cartridge blew the soft brass apart and unseated and "shot" the bullets out.

 

[soconor]

Ouch!

 

[Big country]

WOW! It looks like the one on the barrel went off and caught the two on the other side and set them off.

 

[KellyAsh]

Since we're throwing guessed out about how the other 2 were damaged, it looks to me, like theye were set off from the heat of the first explosion...maybe aided by the cases being torn open mechanically from the cyclinder coming apart. Whatever happened, I bet he wont do that again.

 

[navyguy]

Or it could have been a squib round that got lodged in the barrel, and the shooter was doing some rapid fire, and/or didn't notice the different sound and feel, and just pulled the trigger again. That would explode the top most chamber, and the shock could ignite the adjacent rounds.

What ever happened, there's some underwear that needs changing.