Kentucky Ballistics Fired a .50 Cal and it Exploded - Don't Let Your Gun Kill You - A gun safety PSA

[HiramTheGrift]

Hello my gun enthusiast Kiwis, I posted this in the wrong board like an exceptional individual. This is my second attempt.

If you follow gun Youtube you may have heard of Kentucky Ballistics. He, and many like him, fire big ass guns at random targets they can find. He loaded a .50 cal round into his rifle. The only problem is the round was reloaded by some rando and it was too hot (too much propellant). The rifle exploded, lacerated his jugular, broke his hand, punctured his lung, and broke his face. While most of us will not be firing guns like this, it's a cautionary tale that accidents happen and you need to be prepared. Don't shoot alone and have a basic knowledge of first aid.

Safe shooting

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Next time just ask staff to move it, now all the comments are gone. Anyways, it says the round was loaded by a rando, that frens is what we call a dumb idea. I only trust rounds loaded by myself, my husband, or the guy who taught us how to reload.

 

[MrTroll]

You retard, I posted a funny comment in your last thread and got several 'like' ratings and now they're gone forever. I hope you die.

 

[TFT-A9]

Next time just ask staff to move it, now all the comments are gone. Anyways, it says the round was loaded by a rando, that frens is a dumb idea. I only trust rounds loaded by myself, my husband, or the guy who taught us how to reload.

He should still kick that rando's ass.

 

[HiramTheGrift]

Next time just ask staff to move it, now all the comments are gone. Anyways, it says the round was loaded by a rando, that frens is a dumb idea. I only trust rounds loaded by myself, my husband, or the guy who taught us how to reload.

You retard, I posted a funny comment in your last thread and got several 'like' ratings and now they're gone forever. I hope you die.

Forgive me father for I have committed cringe

 

[Mnutu]

Never trust a rando to tamper with anything on your gun or reload your ammo. It should be someone you trust to be meticulous and safe. I haven’t reloaded in several months, even though I need to, because I know that I need to be really focused and careful doing it.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

A story as old as easily available fiddys, can't say I'm shocked.

This is from years ago when AR .50s were new, some dude was shooting his own reloads and the thing blew out on him, though in this case I want to say the reload was less the problem and more the upper.


Note the bulge in the buffer tube from the firing pin hitting it.

The hammers, according to bystanders were for opening and closing the bolt. Yeah...these kinds of rifles were very new in 2010 and quality was a bit hit or miss.

The reloads.

Side view.

Note missing chunks where I'm pretty sure an extractor once lived.

As I recall the debris cut his face up but considering the footage from the Kentucky Ballistics clip, this dude probably lucked out.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Richard Davis laughs.

 

[Justtocheck]

Haha, Kentucky ballistics needed to compensate for small dick and got reked (and probably fucks his cousin)

 

[Techpriest]

Holy shit. This is why you don't put high pressure loads in guns you're not sure can take them, and why you shouldn't take random hand loads from strangers.

 

[murdered meat bag]

I take it wasnt a barette but some fag make?

 

[The Shadow]

Next time just ask staff to move it, now all the comments are gone. Anyways, it says the round was loaded by a rando, that frens is what we call a dumb idea. I only trust rounds loaded by myself, my husband, or the guy who taught us how to reload.

Sage advice I learned that the hard way, I put some rando's wildcat rounds into a .38 Smith and blew the cylinder up. I'm lucky my hand got away unscathed.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Sage advice I learned that the hard way, I put some rando's wildcat rounds into a .38 Smith and blew the cylinder up. I'm lucky my hand got away unscathed.

Lucky, they do tend to blow up and out.

 

[Krystal]

Seeing this just reminded me of this clip from 1000 ways to die.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Just a piece of advice, if you are shooting and a malfunction occurs be sure when you are calling 911 to tell them they has been an ACCIDENTAL shooting and everything is safe now.

Just saying someone has been shot, will get your call routed to police dispatch and the units will go their to set up a perimeter with the paramedic waiting for all clear while you bleed to death.

 

[HiramTheGrift]

He purchased them at a military surplus store iirc. He was under the impression these were professionally made rounds, which was not the case. The issue was the type of round he's shooting is older and difficult to make (for this exact reason). I've fired rounds that were too hot but the caliber was smaller and just ended up damaging the strike pin or jamming. Like he said in the video, there's sometimes no way to know if your round is defective while loading it. That's why I always wear protective glasses when I shoot because you never know if you have that 1/100000 bullet that could send shrapnel towards your face

 

[Denmark Mafia]

Absolutely nuts.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Gun Fag Gets What He Ordered, story at 11

 

[HarblMcDavid]

The most interesting thing about what KB reported was that the rounds kept getting hotter as he fired them. I wonder if whoever was putting them together had some kind of incrementing error in their powder scale?

That or I wonder if these were originally factory rejects. I could see a scenario where there's an error during the powder loading for a batch, the rounds are rejected in final QC, someone with sticky fingers snagged a few as souvenirs, and decided to sell them when they realized what the rounds were worth.

 

[Swirling weeb]

I don’t know what I’m more shocked by the fact that this dude ate a steel cap and didn’t get knocked out or the fact that him stuffing his shirt on his severed jugular saved his life