Friday, November 03, 2006
These photos were posted at a forum I frequent, and I thought it only right to share. For those who don't know much about guns let me give you a quick lesson so these next few photographs make some sense.
On occasion, while shooting, you may get a round that has no powder, or whatever the case may be. The result is the projectile (read: bullet) may become lodged in the barrel, causing an obstruction. When this happens, if you fire the next round and send a second projectile down the barrel, the result very well may be this:
What you are looking at is a badly split barrel. Injuries can occur from this, obviously, and whether or not the shooter of this one was injured, no one actually said. But the cause is usually a build up of gas.
Now, that was the first photo above. Here are two more looks at this barrel:
Not everyone realizes when they have had a projectile lodge itself in the barrel, so these things do happen. It happened to me once with my Sig, when I first got it, but my slide locked partly open which disabled the gun. I couldn't fire another round.
However, this photo is the reason why this is your "DUH!" moment of the day:
That is a bore sighter. It is placed in the muzzle of the rifle while bore sighting a scope. Some have lasers to help; the one I use just has a grid that you focus the scope on at full power. It is a large piece that is attached to a rod. The rod is slid into the barrel and holds the large piece - which contains the grid - up over the top so it can be seen through the scope. Basically, what this does is it focuses the scope where the barrel is pointing.
As you can see, the above bore sighter - which appears to be a laser instead of the grid like I use, but it is still placed inside the barrel - seems to be badly damaged. The reason?
He shot it. The owner of the rifle forgot to remove the bore sighter before he shot the rifle. It acted in the same way as having an underpowered projectile lodged in the barrel. As you can tell, this is a costly mistake at best, if we say the shooter was uninjured, which we hope he/she was.
Suck Lead did something BAAAAD at 11/03/2006 11:35:00 PM
