As clumsy as the guy is handling words, he isn't much of a traditional frat bro. I mean, he founded a company and is making his own rifle, and if I am not mistaken he went to uni, that has to take at least some brain mass. Shitty boomer meme reviews and cursed image videos included, he still often manages to explain about guns really well for people who aren't familiar to the subject, and delves into weapon manufacturing processes often.
I'm still baffled at the sheer amount of force that must have been building up in that thing.
It might be possible to add a vent, but against overpressure of that caliber (heh) you might risk it being a proper weak spot and turning the entire chamber into a grenade, sending half of the receiver back into the shooter instead of just the rear cap. I get the idea, but this feels like trying to proof a 12-gauge shotgun against someone shoving a stick of dynamite with a primer glued to it into the chamber. It's going so far outside operating parameters as to be unfeasible.
Clearly, the pressure involved was absolutely insane, I was just wondering if there was a way to essentially have a part of the chamber be constrcuted in a way that makes it blow out upwards instead of backwards. I guess it would be pretty cost intensive to make such a thing in a way that indeed doesn't just turn the whole thing into a pipe bomb and at the pressures we're talking about we've long since left the area whereyou even expect to be forced to deal with so much pressure. I mean, if this Serbu gun was indeed made to handle 40k-50k psi cartridges and the chamber withstands up to >160k psi, any kind of intended breaking point at those pressures would nonsensical. The strength of the chamber is supposed to withstand anything you throw in there anway.
Kinda reminds me of a video of a guy having his AR blow up into a million pieces, he's literally left with a buttstock, trigger group and magazine well and the first thing he does is wipe his hand across his face to see if he's still got all his facial features attached. Thankfully, he was completely unharmed.
Problem is it's not really clear where they're all from (recently, I mean).
One of the guys at my previous range had a nasty-looking scar on his arm from when his AK blew up on him. Cast trunnions are no joke.
With how he mentioned the rounds before the detonation also felt fucky, this is a very distinct possibility. That gun fired at least one overpressure round before going off.
The chamber handles the pressure just fine, what you'd want is a vent on the breech cap. The problem is that since it's screwed in, a vent drilled through the side would point in different directions depending on how it was indexed. Usually bolt guns with vents in the action have them drilled into the receiver ahead of the locking lugs, not the chamber itself.
Going to university is what traditional frat bros do, though.
I would have though that they are all from the same batch, since they look identical... but then again, that might not hold up to scrutiny and who knows, there are people who reuse spent brass, so there's a chance someone used the wrong propellant and (on top of that) accidentally double loaded the round that blew up the gun...
SLAP was never sold commercially, all rounds available to the general public are either stolen from military stores or handmade/custom assembled. The stolen ones are also usually 20+ years old and there is no guarantee of storage quality or safety.
People are getting too down in the weeds on why this happened, and it is important to know these things as well, but the ultimate morals of the story that people should take away from this are firstly, to not fire sketchy exotic loads through a rifle not designed for it, and secondly if you are a manufacturer and a customer says "Hey man I want you to make me a rifle so that I can fire really sketchy hand loads out of it" the proper answer to him should be "no".
Yup. This is really more of a sign that safety features and a little bit of effort in destructive testing should be put into rifles from the beginning. Making a clone of someone's homemade .50 BMG isn't a good excuse to skimp on the design features that could save someone's life. Especially the simple ones.
It's the same conclusion with the same evidence shown previously with a supposed "first look" that we are led to assume is him running to get the camera with no prior investigation.
I don't remember where I read it, but I do remember Serbu doing destructive testing. The barrel should fail long before the rear cap does. Scott's gun had a longer "heavy" barrel mounted, though, and while I don't know whether that barrel was also thicker as well as longer, that might be where the issue could be traced to.
Im not sure if the weaker barrel would have helped since the gun seems to have exploded before the projectile could reach the barrel in the first place.
I missed that. Well, if that's not a "please sign this waiver" situation, I don't know what is.
