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Beretta barrel burst


RossEM
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Picture reposted from Bozard & Co's facebook page.

 

According to them, this was not the result of loading a 20 bore cartridge by accident, rather a weakness or flaw in the barrel. Ironically the owner is a left hander, therefore mostly got away with it - talk about lucky

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Been very lucky as by that a right handed would now be a one hander and lost a chunk of forearm too.

 

Nasty for it to peel open like that in the forcing cone. Not been putting HP steel through it has he or had a wad stuck in the barrel then fired another cart?

 

Figgy

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It doesn't have to be a 20 gauge shell accident, any obstruction could lead to this sort of thing. I'd want to see a professional assessment before writing it off as a barrel flaw - that would surely have shown up when they're proof fired with loads well in excess of their intended use ?!

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It doesn't have to be a 20 gauge shell accident, any obstruction could lead to this sort of thing. I'd want to see a professional assessment before writing it off as a barrel flaw - that would surely have shown up when they're proof fired with loads well in excess of their intended use ?!

Plus 1 highly unlikely to get through a proof test with out there being an indication.

Has it been sent for inspection?

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Perfect tear right at the end of the forcing cone and they claim it's a faulty barrel...

 

If I were a betting man my money would be on a blockage.

The weak point in any structure is where there is an acute change in direction hence all bends/machining having the appropriate radius. A manufacturing fault/material flaw coupled to repeated stress is a possibility. But surely, odds on are it was a blockage.

 

Edit: Missing word added.

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Perhaps the unfortunate owner had been reading the suggestion in "Pull" magazine (so I'm told) that one should leave a wad of kitchen towel in the chambers to soak up surplus oil.

 

I, like so many others, simply cannot see that a "flaw" in the tubes would survive manufacture, finishing, blueing, quality control, and of course proof.

 

I also have difficulty believing that a flawed tube without a blockage would burst like that.

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