Author Topic: Substantially worse than killing your tail light - Vulcan .50 blows up (Read 4736 times)

Perhaps not quite first shot. One report suggests that the round blew before the bolt was seated or locked.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/06/10/vulcan-v50-50-bmg-kaboom/

Body parts not recovered? That's going to lead to fun times on the range...

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2014, 06:31:19 PM »

From last summer, but I never saw it here. Bolt blows out of a .50 BMG rifle, and clocks a guy in the neck.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=963_1392257627

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1491243_.html

Scout26 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 13, 2014, 06:43:46 PM »

Quote from: fistful on February 13, 2014, 06:31:19 PM

From last summer, but I never saw it here. Bolt blows out of a .50 BMG rifle, and clocks a guy in the neck.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=963_1392257627

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1491243_.html

Had you scrolled down you would have seen it today. Duplicates merged. Balog had the right of way.

Balog · « **Reply #8 on:** February 13, 2014, 07:06:05 PM »

Quote from: Chuck Dye on February 13, 2014, 05:49:23 PM

Perhaps not quite first shot. One report suggests that the round blew before the bolt was seated or locked.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/06/10/vulcan-v50-50-bmg-kaboom/

Body parts not recovered? That's going to lead to fun times on the range...

Couple things.

First off, that's a different incident. There have been 3 or 4 Vulcan .50's blowing up incidents that have been publicized.

Second, the blogger you linked to is a moron. The way these work is that the entire bolt assembly is withdrawn from the gun, then the round slipped into the grooved channel that borders the bolt face, then reinserted and chambered. This means that if the firing pin was protruding, the round could not be slipped into place on the bolt face.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #9 on:** February 13, 2014, 08:29:35 PM »

Quote from: Balog on February 13, 2014, 07:06:05 PM

There have been 3 or 4 Vulcan .50's blowing up incidents that have been publicized.

Please tell me these things are made in Pakistan, or North Korea, or anywhere but here. Please?

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2014, 08:50:07 PM »

todd bailey made not paki made

Boomhauer · « **Reply #11 on:** February 13, 2014, 08:55:33 PM »

Quote from: fistful on February 13, 2014, 08:29:35 PM

Please tell me these things are made in Pakistan, or North Korea, or anywhere but here. Please?

Nope they are made in the US.

There are pictures out there of a Vulcan AR lower that cracked in half after being used to fire about two rounds.

lee n. field · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2014, 09:32:39 PM »

Quote from: Boomhauer on February 13, 2014, 08:55:33 PM

Nope they are made in the US.

There are pictures out there of a Vulcan AR lower that cracked in half after being used to fire about two rounds.

I thought AR lowers were supposed to be these low stress items that you could almost make out of cheesecake.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2014, 09:42:18 PM »

Quote from: lee n. field on February 13, 2014, 09:32:39 PM

I thought AR lowers were supposed to be these low stress items that you could almost make out of cheesecake.

I know people claim that the AR lower is very low stress but it does take some stress. Recoil affects it (yes, 5.56 has recoil, even though for the shooter it is very light), plus you got the whole BCG slamming back into the reciever extension.

That said, I think the aluminum they were casting into AR lowers was very low low low quality (like think screen door quality) and such so their poorly cast pieces of *expletive deleted* that it broke apart on the second shot.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 14, 2014, 04:01:19 AM »

Harold, are you serious? If it is Todd Bailey Mfg, I wouldn't wish one of those guns on my worst enemy!

Regolith · « **Reply #15 on:** February 14, 2014, 07:25:56 AM »

Quote from: Gewehr98 on February 14, 2014, 04:01:19 AM

Harold, are you serious? If it is Todd Bailey Mfg, I wouldn't wish one of those guns on my worst enemy!

Maybe we should drop a bunch of these things on the Taliban, along with some double-charge ammo to go with it.

brimic · « **Reply #16 on:** February 14, 2014, 08:56:04 AM »

Quote from: fistful on February 13, 2014, 08:29:35 PM

Please tell me these things are made in Pakistan, or North Korea, or anywhere but here. Please?

Pakistani and North Koreans have a better reputation.

Tallpine · « **Reply #17 on:** February 14, 2014, 10:18:05 AM »

Quote

it broke apart on the second shot

Then I guess you need to make the first shot count

lee n. field · « **Reply #18 on:** February 14, 2014, 10:24:36 AM »

Quote from: Boomhauer on February 13, 2014, 08:55:33 PM

Nope they are made in the US.

There are pictures out there of a Vulcan AR lower that cracked in half after being used to fire about two rounds.

(Note to self: keep the WASR 10/63.)

MechAg94 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2014, 11:36:02 AM »

Quote from: lee n. field on February 14, 2014, 10:24:36 AM

(Note to self: keep the WASR 10/63.)

Yeah, my Saiga 223 is staying put.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2014, 01:16:24 PM »

Hesse=Vulcan=Blackthorne

Toddy Bailey= Special Weapons=Cohaire=Top Notch=Bobcat

RevDisk · « **Reply #21 on:** February 14, 2014, 01:19:23 PM »

Quote from: Harold Tuttle on February 14, 2014, 01:16:24 PM

Hesse=Vulcan=Blackthorne

Toddy Bailey= Special Weapons=Cohaire=Top Notch=Bobcat

Both have about the same level of reputation. Though, Bobcat/SW was moreso shady than Kaboom.

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