Timeline for How does a rifle fire backwards?
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| Jul 1, 2023 at 7:22 | comment | added | John Meacham | @Mazura the rounds were supposedly original new old stock rounds designed for that gun. It turned out someone replicated the packaging and they were counterfeit. The whole box had rounds with random loads in them. Kind of crazy those are out there being sold. | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 22:12 | comment | added | Mazura | One of his rounds was "super hot", meaning : they used a powder that was ground-up too fine, which leaves enough space in the cartridge to add too much. That's like rule #1 for reloading : use a powder that makes it impossible to hot load it. - Hot load it, file down the lug, and leave a squib in there, and I don't want to be in the same city.... | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 21:53 | comment | added | Schwern | @Mazura I added a recent accident where an extremely over-pressure round caused the equivalent to the discussed lug failure and mortally wounded the shooter. Fortunately, he got prompt medical attention and is ok. Again, the question is whether a gunsmith could do it, not if it's a legit safety issue. | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 21:46 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Update with Kentucky Ballistics nearly being killed by the scenario.
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 15:16 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| S May 27, 2018 at 10:06 | history | suggested | Cœur | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
typo: redundant word
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| May 26, 2018 at 3:16 | comment | added | Schwern | @Mazura Don't worry, the safest place to be remains behind your rifle. I included the Ross, in part, to show just how difficult it is to sabotage a rifle to send anything flying out the back, even on a misassembled, badly designed, 100 year old rifle. That's why we won't find any coroner's reports. But it's important to note they limited themselves to errors in the field. If they really wanted to they could have gotten that bolt to fly out the back by sheering off most of the locking lugs and weakening the bolt stop. It was the most plausible thing I thought of when I saw the question. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 2:06 | comment | added | Mazura | It might come far enough back to hit you in the face, but they didn't prove that improperly assembling the bolt can create a situation where it 'flies' out of the rifle. the bolt may slide all the way back to its stop not "come flying out the back". Owning two rifles that you remove the bolt from the rear, I have a pedantic interest in this ;) What I really want is a coroner's report saying the cause of death was cranial penetration by a rifle bolt due to unplanned rapid disassembly. As it is, the cite on Wiki leads only to the same video you posted. Excellent answer anyways. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 1:33 | comment | added | Schwern | @Mazura I've cleaned up the "bolt out the back" section to make it clearer. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 1:32 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clean up the discussion of the bolt flying out the back to make it clear it's only for specific guns.
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| May 26, 2018 at 1:21 | comment | added | Schwern | @Mazura Watch the full Ross Rifle malfunction video, that's what they're trying to replicate. You can see in the last picture that the bolt is nearly out the back of the rifle. This is because in many older bolt-action rifles you can remove the bolt from the rear, as demonstrated at 12:25 in the video. At 14:05 they discuss what prevented it from flying out. Most modern rifles, such as the Ruger Mini-14 used in the film, have too many safety mechanisms and design elements for this to even come close to happening. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 0:54 | comment | added | Mazura | "that bolt can wind up flying into the shooter's face." Citation needed; I looked but found nothing. | |
| May 25, 2018 at 21:58 | history | answered | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |