.338 Lapua Magnum KABOOM

[Steel head]

W O W

Worth repeating again!

Rifle scattered pretty thoroughly!

[taliv]

i can't believe that the rod is still in the barrel. how does that happen??

savages aren't exactly 'high end'

i'd be very curious to hear if there is some design point of that action that allowed it to fail with such minimal damage to the user.

[Leaveammoforme]

That was his one freebie. Its amazing there were only minor injuries. I mean, we're talking around 90-100 grains of powder with no where to go. Super lucky.

[RazorBurn]

Holy sweet mother of pearl that is one lucky dude!

[TehLlama]

I had always wondered if the bore inspections at military ranges were really justified - now I know that there were in fact handy foreign objects that can be installed in a barrel to achieve disastrous consequences.

[Nater]

It happens all too often: familiarity breeds complacency. Complacency breeds negligence.



Be vigilant in both the large as well as the small things, fellas. Stay safe.

[Voodoochild]

That's a pretty expensive KB right there.

[Leaveammoforme]

After looking at the pics better I'm wondering about the ammo in the green box. Can't read headstamp but if it's 338 LM it appears to have the bullets seated way to deep (based on heights of fired & un-fired cases). I reload 338 LM- Trim my cases to 2.714 seat to 3.615. No way there is almost an inch of difference between those cases. Unless the mouths of the fired cases aren't actually touching the bottom of the box.

[Vintovka]

Why would he even have his cleaning rod in the rifle at the range? One of the idiots who think you need to clean the bore after each shot to "break it in?"

[Leaveammoforme]

Why would he even have his cleaning rod in the rifle at the range? One of the idiots who think you need to clean the bore after each shot to "break it in?"

From the ammo box it appears he reloads. He may have been trying to minimize shot to shot differences. Or he may have been shooting several types of powder checking how 'dirty' they were compared to each other. Lots of possibilites for cleaning when working up a load. But, leaving the rod in is the problem , not having a rod at a range.