Near Death Experience from Over Pressure Round - Warning to All

[Alsone 789]

OK, not me, but saw this yesterday. Quite shocking and shows how dangerous old ammo or incorrectly reloaded ammo can be:
 

 

[David.evans 5,323]

FFS

How lucky can a an be 

thanks for sharing 

[Wolfdog91 7,265]

From everything in I've gathered from the .50cal groups ,the problem is he's using a SLAP round.   Due to how they function their not supposed to be fired though anything with a muzzle break or supressor, due to problems with the sabot case getting caught can and causing excess pressure. Not to mention SLAP's have a much higher pressure naturally than other type of ammo. Barret, and most of the other 50 cal manufacturers highly advise against using SLAP's . And honestly when you can get API and RALFOS rounds makes you wonder why you want SLAP.

Edited May 4, 2021 by Wolfdog91

[KimE 487]

Its probably not the sabot getting stuck in the muzzlebreak what caused the pressure spike it may bee a stuck piece of the sabot close to the chamber or something wrong with the powder in the cartridge. It seems dangerous to have a rifle made for 55000psi what explodes in 80000+psi, some modern cartridges are factory made close to that pressure.

[Wolfdog91 7,265]

This guy gives a pretty good explanation