Boring site accident

[Agrantina]

Was sent this--this morning about a guy who left his bore sighter in and pulled the trigger
Be safe sighting in those deer rifles!!!!

AndyG

 

[TripleR]

Hopefully no one was injured. I need to check mine and my wife's deer rifles too, but I don't use a bore sighter.

 

[texasjohn]

I'm all for gun safety.

However, something looks fishy about the way the barrel is split.... Hard for me to believe that it would be so even, or even split, and split so far. I might believe a bulge, even a piece knocked out of the barrel, but an absolutely even split, 4 ways for over a foot.... something you see in bugs bunny cartoons, but I can't believe it in real life. :confused2:

 

[RoyJackson]

These pics have been around a long time!
IIRC, it was the result of a squib load, not from a bore sight.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

I am with you Texasjohn but it looks pretty impressive. Better not let my wife see that or she will do it to one of mine and try to turn it into art:laughing:

 

[Duffster]

I'm all for gun safety.

However, something looks fishy about the way the barrel is split.... Hard for me to believe that it would be so even, or even split, and split so far. I might believe a bulge, even a piece knocked out of the barrel, but an absolutely even split, 4 ways for over a foot.... something you see in bugs bunny cartoons, but I can't believe it in real life. :confused2:

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[johnrex62]

Mythbusters tried to reproduce this and could not. Modern rifle barrels are too strong, even when they welded the barrel close and filled the barrel with gunpowder. The closest they got to this result was with an old muzzle loader and even then the split was only a couple inches and only one crack, not a peel back like this.

They concluded that this result could only be made through the magic of modern tools and probably only using a hydraulic wedge to force the curl in the barrel.

 

[doall]

I've seen a shotgun split a little when plugged. But I would think the rifle would just spit the bore sight right out and never know it was there.

 

[Skyco]

Hate to admit but I came very close to firing once with my laser boresight still in the barrel...luckily my son was with me and spotted it and said something At a minimum it would have destroyed a $50 bore sighter...IIRC this was one of my AR15's where the boresighter nestles down in the flash hider making it a little harder to spot.

 

[Birdhunter1]

I saw a 300 Win mag blow up like that after a bore sighter was left in it. yes it seems kinda Bugs Bunny-ish but i can attest a barrel will spilt like that. I would go as far as saying you could fire 100 rifles like this and get 10 different results.