Wow, Ruger blew up!
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riggins_83
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What load were you using?
Something interesting here: you notice how these things aren't spitting metal back at the shooter?
From top to bottom: we know what happened with the bad batch of Redhawk barrels. The wrong lube was put on barrels on Friday, dried out by Monday, barrels got over-torqued.
The second is damned impressive. A bad round blew but NO pieces scattered. Very cool from a safety perspective.
In the third, we see a fairly typical Ruger blowup. The topstrap bends buts holds, cylinder cuts loose. Metal goes sideways, not straight back.
In the fourth it was worse but wow, it STILL won't throw metal backwards. Nice.
These pics are I presume in response to a blown-up S&W pic recently. Which lost it's entire topstrap which went God only knows where, possibly straight back. Not as cool.
You can blow anything up. Worst case, a Ruger is less likely to hurt you in doing so. These pictures aren't a condemnation of Ruger but rather a vindication of their metallurgy.
I trust my life to a Ruger daily, and nothing in these pics causes me to regret it.
From top to bottom: we know what happened with the bad batch of Redhawk barrels. The wrong lube was put on barrels on Friday, dried out by Monday, barrels got over-torqued.
The second is damned impressive. A bad round blew but NO pieces scattered. Very cool from a safety perspective.
In the third, we see a fairly typical Ruger blowup. The topstrap bends buts holds, cylinder cuts loose. Metal goes sideways, not straight back.
In the fourth it was worse but wow, it STILL won't throw metal backwards. Nice.
These pics are I presume in response to a blown-up S&W pic recently. Which lost it's entire topstrap which went God only knows where, possibly straight back. Not as cool.
You can blow anything up. Worst case, a Ruger is less likely to hurt you in doing so. These pictures aren't a condemnation of Ruger but rather a vindication of their metallurgy.
I trust my life to a Ruger daily, and nothing in these pics causes me to regret it.
ActivShootr
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Not to deter the thread from blowing things up, but, has anyone ever seen these types of failures from factory loaded ammo?
Factory ammo
Factory ammo isn't immune from defects. Learned a valuable lesson before I retired from LE. Years ago, the Dept. got in several cases of new .38 Special ammo with the S&W brand. Don't know which company loaded it for them, doubt that Smith did. One of the rounds I was issued had a slight bulge where the case mouth joined the projectile. In a speed loader, it would have been impossible to load any of the rounds with the defective cartridge. I saved it to show the S&W rep, and the FBI PFI. The FBI PFI relieved me of the cartridge, and sent it to Quantico.
Factory ammo isn't immune from defects. Learned a valuable lesson before I retired from LE. Years ago, the Dept. got in several cases of new .38 Special ammo with the S&W brand. Don't know which company loaded it for them, doubt that Smith did. One of the rounds I was issued had a slight bulge where the case mouth joined the projectile. In a speed loader, it would have been impossible to load any of the rounds with the defective cartridge. I saved it to show the S&W rep, and the FBI PFI. The FBI PFI relieved me of the cartridge, and sent it to Quantico.
I saw a Super Blackhawk years ago that was blown up. The shooter had tried Elmer's standard load of a 250 gr SWC and 22 gr of 2400.
Except he grabbed the wrong can and loaded 22 gr of Bullseye!
The top strap was gone, the frame bent and the tops of 3 chambers were blown. He wanted the gun sent back to Ruger for repairs!
Except he grabbed the wrong can and loaded 22 gr of Bullseye!
The top strap was gone, the frame bent and the tops of 3 chambers were blown. He wanted the gun sent back to Ruger for repairs!
Guy who said a Freedom Arms has not blown up, I bet some might have been bent or loosened by the loads in those other kabooms. Maybe the reason is that people that drop that much on a SA revolver are more knowledgable and careful about loads? Might be that no one has tried hard enough to blow one up yet. There are limits to what any gun can handle at some point and someone out there is just dying to find out what those limits are, apparently. No such thing as an indestructable gun. No magic metals.
SwampYankee
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What does Ruger do when someone experiences a barrel failure? If you were to buy a used Redhawk, not overload it and the barrel snapped, will they replace the gun? They acknowledge that this was a problem on a limited number of firearms, are they still out in the wild and subject to this failure?
Microgunner
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Jim March said:
Except the rear sight on that Blackhawk. Looks like it may have been launched rearward. OUCH!
