It was because of the ammo. They tested later with more rounds from the same batch, and those ones also exploded.
I found Kentucky Ballistics after that incident and it's now one of the channels I look most forward to new uploads from. Always love seeing the big guns few people have even heard of and especially the collabs doing Kentucky Roulette.
That entire exploding rifle set of videos is insane.
I find it disturbing that the line between a 50 caliber rifle exploding or not is a few extra grains of powder. It just seems like the margin for error should be higher but idk, I'm not a explosives specialist.
It wasn't "a few extra grains". The round was severely overcharged, like 3x normal pressure generated by the round. 50k PSI normally generated by the round in the chamber vs 180k PSI necessary for the weapon to fail. With a replacement rifle, he test fired every other round he had from that batch and had no issues, but a round they purposely made overcharged (190k PSI) blew the thing up again in the same way.
It was a combination of a hot load, and powder burning too fast, was that right?
As I remember, it was just too much powder in the cartridge. I could be wrong though.
OK. I know bad things happen if you put pistol powder in a rifle cartridge.
last I heard he said they used the wrong powder. I'm guessing that means some sort of pistol powder, which burns way too fast for a rifle
Lmao, I just watched that video last night! And out of the dozen slap rounds they put through the 2nd one, none caused it to blow, though most made it very difficult to open and reload.
He had to put an extra spicy round in to get it to detonate, but the slap round that originally blew up could have been that spicy.
Put a thumb in it
He's a shill for big body reconstruction
I've always gotten a weird vibe about him with his daughter.
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