Found this on a Browning forum a while back. (Duplicate post on Duckhuntingchat.com) Thought the pictures were dramatic. (I'll bet everyone in that goose blind woke up when this happened!)

 

Browning 10 ga. Lite barrel obstruction:

 

 

Damn. I never thought a barrel kaboom could look so... uniform.

Elmer Fudd?

Damn. I never thought a barrel kaboom could look so... uniform.

 

That's the same thing I thought when I saw that. Look at how the barrel separated into strips. I thought a hole would blow through the side.

While I was away in the Army, my younger brother got the barrel of my single shot 12 gauge plugged with mud and accomplished the same thing. Of course, in those days, he took it to school and sawed it off in shop class and made a 12 gauge pistol out of it.

Cut it down a tad and make a nice table lamp out of it.

wow that's incredible. I'm kind of surprised to see it so symmetric. Would have loved to see that happen through a slow motion camera.

All bursts are not the same I surmise.

 

No detail on this one. (Would make a poor table lamp.):

 

 

 

The classic: a 20 ga. shell loaded in a 12 ga. barrel with a 12 ga shell ignited behind it:

i would have never guessed it could look so neat!

I'm glad the steel used in shotgun barrels is so ductile when overpressured!

parker those pics made me sick

parker those pics made me sick

 

I think the replacement 10 ga. barrel set the guy back $360. A set of barrels (used) for a Beretta O/U run about $1100-$1200, less fitting costs. Expensive mistakes.

I dont think I would ever shoot a shotgun again if that happened to me.

Thats crazy...

That's some scary stuff. Glad everybody was ok. Wonder what was in the barrel

berretta has a special right now for o/u's some as low as $600 i think it was the 680 series