Unbelievable, not to be repeated.

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dutchy

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Just returned home from holidays in Spain.
We have gone there every years for the last 30 years.
Because I speak spanish, I have a lot of spanish friends.
The following story was told to me by a very good friend, who I would trust with my life and who never ever lies or exaggerates.

Some 30 years ago (did not know him then), he was hunting with his brother.
At that time 99% of the shotguns used there were of spanish manufacture.
Since then I have shot some, and they are just fine.
Now his brother during the hunt stumbled over a branch, denting one of his side by side barrels, 12 gauge.
Without much thought, he opened the gun, inserted a slug, closed it and fired, almost completely taking out the dent. A second slug smoothed out the rest of the dent.

I have not seen the gun, but he tells me that it was used for years afterwards.

I share this NOT for anyone to repeat this, as in my opinion this is suicide.

It was however remarkable enough to post.
 
Lucky fellow.

If the dent was located early in the barrel where the pressure curve is the highest the results would have probably been disastrous. I'm going to guess the shotgun is a smoothbore. A rifled barrel would have probably stuck the slug and caused a kaboom too.
 
It certainly is hard for me to immagine a SOFT lead slug ironing out a steel barrel. That may be why places like Brownells sells tools that hydrolically press out dents.
 
That may also be the reason many folks do not hold a very high opinion of most Spanish shotguns.

Jim
 
That is a mighty soft barrel.
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That was not exactly my thought, but it is a good paraphrasing of it. Steel is much harder than lead, so the slug would have had a hard time ironing out the dent, unless the pressure surge ringed the barrel just right exactly where the dent was. Yes, there are hydraulic tools for ironing out dents, but even then you have to be careful of not bulging the barrel. I don't know, sounds kinda iffy to me.
 
Sounds like a job for the mythbusters. Adam could wear a stupid hat and the dummy could be placed behind the gun to get hit with the kaboom.
 
Adam could wear a stupid hat and the dummy could be placed behind the gun to get hit with the kaboom.
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Yeah, that's one of the big problems with Mythbusters - on occasion, they ask "Has it ever been done," and then try to do it themselves. When they can't, they say it's "probable." WTF? That's not busting a 'myth' - it's testing whether something that irrefutably happened can be reproduced.
 
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