You have to wonder if the shooter had any clue as to what was happening. It appears to me they may have just kept shooting until the gun failed to chamber another round. Did they just think they were missing every shot? They didn’t pick up the clues of the change in recoil and report? And with 35 124 grain bullets in the barrel that is 10 ounces of extra weight.
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Was at my local gun shop once and watch one of the ‘smith working on removing 6 JHP projectiles from an 8″ barreled Ruger .454 magnum
Wow. Someone is lucky to still have all their body parts.
At least a revolver has a built in pressure release of sorts.
I’ve seen seen pictures of several revolvers that have undergone rapid unplanned disassembles.
Oh, no argument it can be very, very bad. There is still the pressure spike between the stuck bullet and the one entering the barrel in either circumstance.
It’s just that most revolvers, once the bullet clears the cylinder gap, have a place for propellant gasses to bleed off. The seal between a bolt and barrel is not perfect, but tighter, in most semi-autos.
Agreed.
No disassemble!
In functional form, too!
The emoticon this calls for was painted by Edvard Muench in 1911 or thereabouts!!!!
I don’t think he shot it.
I think he just hammered the bullets in until it was full. Stupid joke
And that’s the difference between an unlocked breech and a locked breach. Because this a,blowback action, the squib loads blocked the barrel but the over pressure was released through the ejection port. In a locked up action, pressure can only be released by destroying something, as in a .223 AR trying to fire .300 BLK
Clearly, we’ll need a new law in California limiting “High Capacity Barrels”.
34 rounds in a barrel is more than anyone needs for hunting, self-defense or general dumbass-ery.