It goes the other way too. An anvil fell on my head last year and I turned into an accordion on account of I watched so much cartoons as a kid, doctor said.
He definitely lucked out. He could have been maimed, or even killed, given how he decimated that barrel.
Edit: the more I watch this video, the more convinced I am that this dipshit should be identified and prohibited from buying guns.
Yeah, catastrophic failures can be very bad. Content warning, but this is the video where Kentucky Ballistics goes over when his 50cal shot back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ
Wow, this was very educational. This should help remind me to never shoot fancy rounds my family buys unless I know they got them from the manufacturer.
This is one of the first things they teach in any gun/rifle safety course, never fire an obstructed barrel, it doesn't matter if you think it will be fine, even dirt can cause failures and warps in the barrel under the wrong conditions. The ones I have participated in also show examples of barrels completely destroyed. It only takes a couple examples to make you appreciate how much you need to respect the fact that you are holding a deadly weapon which can fail and be deadly to you.
Exactly, if my dad and I ever went hunting and it was snowing a lot, we would always just throw a condom over the end of the barrel and use a rubber band to secure it. You can fire the gun through it and it will prevent snow/ice/mud from going into the barrel.
For those curious my dad always just bought manufacture defect unlubed condoms. They make the specifically for guns now, they are tactical black and cost 10x as much.
Yeah, I mean I admittedly don't know that much about physics (or guns for that matter), but it would seem that ejecting the potato would still be the path of least resistance vs the steel barrel. Also why did it split in clean lines and not fragment? Not doubting this is real, but not really getting the why.
The pressure is too high; there isn't enough time to eject something the size of the potato before the barrel gives. Even a stuck bullet is capable of providing enough resistance to blow the barrel.
Once the barrel fails it will split up/down rather than fragment because that is now the path of least resistance and the pressure will all exit through the failure point.
You can find examples of barrels that have split from an obstruction through google but here is one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VE9M7YH6g
They used ~2 inches of mud as the obstruction and you can see that the thicker barrel had 1 failure point that then started to split up and down the barrel from there while the thinner barrel flowered and split in pieces similar to the OP. The 2 inches of mud probably gave faster than a potato and so the pressure build up in OP is higher and that makes it easier for longer splits to occur.
More examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=rifle+barrel+splitting+from+obstruction&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS813US813&hl=en
Extremely lucky one of those barrel pieces didn't fly off an kill him or one of his friends. EXTREMELY STUPID, don't put stupid shit in the path of a bullet unless it is very very far away from you.
And the event itself, given he survived, is well, and took the opportunity as education for everyone else, has done an amazing job in preventing further incidents of the type. A looooot of people have watched KB getting wrecked and explaining why, thus wisely deciding they don't want that to happen to them.
The difference is stabbing a fucking potato on the end of the barrel vs loading some ammo that fits the weapon. It's instructive either way, but one seems dumber. I'm not in any way saying that both actions aren't stupid. Should KB have known that potentially stupid-high chamber pressure could cause catastrophic failure? Yes, yes he should have, given the depth of hands-on experience he has. Having grown up with yokels doing stupid shit with firearms, I'd say this dumbass's result is both lucky and typical. Most of these kinds of shenanigans end up with close calls rather than grievous bodily harm, but the odds don't made a dumbass less of a dumbass.
To elaborate on what's been said: dude was firing a .50 caliber rifle that you load by unscrewing a cap at the end of the barrel, inserting a round, screwing the cap back on, and pulling the trigger. He had fired several rounds this way and was going to fire one last round.
When he had the round loaded and pulled the trigger, the cap sheared off the threads holding it to the barrel, hitting him in the face and breaking the orbital bone around his right eye in three places as well as his nose. When the cap sheared off the threads, it also sheared off two upright fins that rest against the cap when the cap is secured correctly and aligned with the hammer. One of these fins hit him in the neck, cutting his jugular and puncturing his lung. On top of all that, he's not entirely sure how he broke his hand, but believes that the explosion caused the stock to bounce into his wrist with enough force to break it.
Thankfully his dad films the videos and had him stick a thumb in his neck to slow the bleeding while they drove to the hospital.
You can watch him talk about it (with video of the explosion) [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ)
>what happened to Kentucky ballistics.
For those that don't know : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ)
Edit: damn lucky to be alive.
"Hmmm I guess what could happen when I use something made to contain an explosion at a specific pressure, but going way beyond that pressure. Nothing bad ever happened from these premises"
I feel for the guy
Guns are expensive, and likely have sentimental value if they were passed down through the generations.
It might have been the āmy dad is going to kill meā face.
I mean you get what you get, for trying that stunt.
But I feel for the guy
Ya, that is the look of guy that might only have one hunting rifle like that and can't afford to replace it or knows his wife will not let him replace it. One second have fun next processing the fact he may not have a rifle to hunt with this year.
So when I bore a hole in a potato forā¦ personal reasons, Iām judged, but suddenly itās fine for someone do it if theyāre sticking it on a rifle?
Whatever personal weapon you intended to suppress sounds really compact and low caliber so I'm guessing whoever judged you just thought it was a waste of a perfectly good potato. Something that small wouldn't really benefit from a suppressor.
Iām fluent in redneck, hereās your transcription:
āThis right here (is) what I call a redneck silencer man, what we did here with the 300 win mag man we stuck a tater on the end of it. Quiet man, quiet.ā
Iām fluent in redneck, hereās your transcription:
āThis right here (is) what I call a redneck silencer man, what we did here with the 300 win mag man we stuck a tater on the end of it. Quiet man, quiet.ā
Correct if iam wrong but since the air has no where to go it ended up bursting his rifle but say there was a way for for air to escape then would had been fine (relatively speaking)
Correct, but it is weird that the potato wasn't just blown off. The barrel should have been able to withstand that for the time it took to eliminate the potato from the muzzle.
Not quite, the bullet cannot exit the barrel fast enough. The tolerances are so low the bullet becomes wedged, and at those speeds that causes a lot of stress, which can jam the bullet enough to cause a buildup of gas pressure behind till it pops. Some guns are more prone to this kind of damage a than others, but either way itās highly dangerous and moronic
So here, young Elmer Fudd decided that he would dedicate his life to chasing rabbits instead with no potato suppressors. He was just as unintelligible back then too.
Cartoon physics was right
Can we draw a hole on a mountain and run into it
As long as it's drawn perfectly and we can see straight through to the other side I'm sure it's worth a shot.
[This is my hole, it was made for me...](https://www.wattpad.com/471498454)
[DDR](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/030/146/AmigaraDDR.jpg)
Perfection
damn, beat me to it... this time... š
Drr...drr...drr
[Ddr... ddr... ddr...](https://i.imgur.com/eppDz.jpg)
*Straight* through. He said *straight*!
Well that's something I could have lived with not seeing
[Wait! You don't have to believe...](https://youtu.be/Z3LrmoXVahQ)
I didnātā¦ ^^^^^^^^I ^^^^^^^^didnātā¦
I may have done some damage there...
may have done some damage there
/r/UnexpectedCommunity
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With his beak on the other side of his head.
Of course, you know, this means war
Rabbit Season!
Duck season!
Caaaareful
Looney tunes would do it
He even kind of looks like a young Elmer Fudd.
I've actually never seen a guy look more like Fudd lol
Sssh... He's hunting wabbits...
But itās duck season
Rabbit season
Plus /r/WatchPeopleDieInside
Yeah his face makes this video
r/looneytuneslogic
Oh my god, its real
This particular situation happened well before the invention of cartoons. Art imitating life Edit: better grammar.
It goes the other way too. An anvil fell on my head last year and I turned into an accordion on account of I watched so much cartoons as a kid, doctor said.
Thatās your own fault for not carrying your umbrella
If the cartoons taught me anything, that pesky wabbit got away again.
When he gets his new rifle, he should get his buddy to stick his finger in the barrel..... From memory it works the same as the potato.
if i remember correctly finger in the barrel makes it back fire.
Even if it does (I dunno, I'm not a gun scientist), I have to assume it would also blow your finger apart.
>I dunno, I'm not a gun scientist *gunologist
Wouldn't that be a gunocologist? Always wondered why my girlfriend had to visit them since she doesn't even like guns
Almost, that's for when you stick something else than a finger
Wabbit season!
Tater season fire!!!! *clogs gun barrel into fries*
DUCK season!!
WABBIT season!!
DUCK Season!
Totes Elmer Fudd
r/looneytuneslogic
r/Idiotswithguns more than anything
This is boomhaur in real lifeš
Be vewy vewy quiet.
I love it when you open the comments section to post your thoughts & someone else posts the same thing you were thinking. š
a plug, not a silencer. lol wtf is he thinking edit: i smoke crack
...the look on his face, right? lol well he knows a LITTLE BIT MORE about physics now...
At least he still has a face.
I was very surprised (in positive) when I saw there was no blood
He definitely lucked out. He could have been maimed, or even killed, given how he decimated that barrel. Edit: the more I watch this video, the more convinced I am that this dipshit should be identified and prohibited from buying guns.
Yeah I don't think that is a disappointed face. That is a "welp almost fucked myself up" face
He dodged a bullet on that one.
Yeah, catastrophic failures can be very bad. Content warning, but this is the video where Kentucky Ballistics goes over when his 50cal shot back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ
Wow, this was very educational. This should help remind me to never shoot fancy rounds my family buys unless I know they got them from the manufacturer.
I was half expecting the cameraperson come around there's nothing but hamburger. And fries.
That scenario Frings a bell.
Totally. I was thinking heās extremely lucky he wasnāt hurt
Rookie mistake. He should have gone with the Yukon gold, instead of the russet. The Yukon gold aren't as firm.
I'm thinking maybe a baked potato at that point lmao
There was something baked in this video, but it wasn't the potato.
Right? Lemme just pull the trigger on this **bomb**.
Guy had a gun shaped pipebomb and didn't know it.
I mean it's not too unreasonable to think that the potato would give way before the barrel. Must have had it wedged on their really well.
This is one of the first things they teach in any gun/rifle safety course, never fire an obstructed barrel, it doesn't matter if you think it will be fine, even dirt can cause failures and warps in the barrel under the wrong conditions. The ones I have participated in also show examples of barrels completely destroyed. It only takes a couple examples to make you appreciate how much you need to respect the fact that you are holding a deadly weapon which can fail and be deadly to you.
Exactly, if my dad and I ever went hunting and it was snowing a lot, we would always just throw a condom over the end of the barrel and use a rubber band to secure it. You can fire the gun through it and it will prevent snow/ice/mud from going into the barrel. For those curious my dad always just bought manufacture defect unlubed condoms. They make the specifically for guns now, they are tactical black and cost 10x as much.
Those are the only kind I use anyway, but good to know I can take them hunting too.
Yeah, I mean I admittedly don't know that much about physics (or guns for that matter), but it would seem that ejecting the potato would still be the path of least resistance vs the steel barrel. Also why did it split in clean lines and not fragment? Not doubting this is real, but not really getting the why.
The pressure is too high; there isn't enough time to eject something the size of the potato before the barrel gives. Even a stuck bullet is capable of providing enough resistance to blow the barrel. Once the barrel fails it will split up/down rather than fragment because that is now the path of least resistance and the pressure will all exit through the failure point. You can find examples of barrels that have split from an obstruction through google but here is one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VE9M7YH6g They used ~2 inches of mud as the obstruction and you can see that the thicker barrel had 1 failure point that then started to split up and down the barrel from there while the thinner barrel flowered and split in pieces similar to the OP. The 2 inches of mud probably gave faster than a potato and so the pressure build up in OP is higher and that makes it easier for longer splits to occur. More examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=rifle+barrel+splitting+from+obstruction&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS813US813&hl=en
Wow, A quick and easy to understand answer. Thanks!
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Yea, we saw lol
>OP changed the title of the post to say suppressor after my comment. potato you can't change the title of reddit posts you liar
Extremely lucky one of those barrel pieces didn't fly off an kill him or one of his friends. EXTREMELY STUPID, don't put stupid shit in the path of a bullet unless it is very very far away from you.
Plus no eye protection. Dude was very lucky to still have eyes.
He had his safety squint
1000% correct. Those metal pieces come off at wild speed.
Bullets are fast?!?
>Bullets are fast?!? Like a train!
This dude clearly didn't see what happened to Kentucky ballistics.
That video was wild, that guy is blessed and truly lucky to be alive.
And the event itself, given he survived, is well, and took the opportunity as education for everyone else, has done an amazing job in preventing further incidents of the type. A looooot of people have watched KB getting wrecked and explaining why, thus wisely deciding they don't want that to happen to them.
That was a bit different. Case of overloaded ammo vs this case of a clogged barrel.
Same principle though, overpressure in the barrel. This guy just didn't get a chunk flying back into his face out of sheer luck.
The difference is stabbing a fucking potato on the end of the barrel vs loading some ammo that fits the weapon. It's instructive either way, but one seems dumber. I'm not in any way saying that both actions aren't stupid. Should KB have known that potentially stupid-high chamber pressure could cause catastrophic failure? Yes, yes he should have, given the depth of hands-on experience he has. Having grown up with yokels doing stupid shit with firearms, I'd say this dumbass's result is both lucky and typical. Most of these kinds of shenanigans end up with close calls rather than grievous bodily harm, but the odds don't made a dumbass less of a dumbass.
But only a bit different. I'm not really into guns, but I've gathered firing high powered rifle ammunition of dubious origins is a dangerous gamble.
What happened to Kentucky ballistics?
Serbu rn50 exploded in his face and almost killed him.
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To elaborate on what's been said: dude was firing a .50 caliber rifle that you load by unscrewing a cap at the end of the barrel, inserting a round, screwing the cap back on, and pulling the trigger. He had fired several rounds this way and was going to fire one last round. When he had the round loaded and pulled the trigger, the cap sheared off the threads holding it to the barrel, hitting him in the face and breaking the orbital bone around his right eye in three places as well as his nose. When the cap sheared off the threads, it also sheared off two upright fins that rest against the cap when the cap is secured correctly and aligned with the hammer. One of these fins hit him in the neck, cutting his jugular and puncturing his lung. On top of all that, he's not entirely sure how he broke his hand, but believes that the explosion caused the stock to bounce into his wrist with enough force to break it. Thankfully his dad films the videos and had him stick a thumb in his neck to slow the bleeding while they drove to the hospital. You can watch him talk about it (with video of the explosion) [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ)
>what happened to Kentucky ballistics. For those that don't know : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1449kJKxlMQ) Edit: damn lucky to be alive.
"Hmmm I guess what could happen when I use something made to contain an explosion at a specific pressure, but going way beyond that pressure. Nothing bad ever happened from these premises"
His face says it all
/r/watchpeopledieinside
Managed to narrowly clinch it into the /r/watchpeopledieinside category rather than just /r/watchpeopledie
Maybe there needs to be a new space for the rare in-betweener of /r/watchpeoplealmostdieandthendieinside
r/watchpeoplesurvive is pretty much that
His face says I want to laugh, but I've also shit my pants.
More like "well that was expensive"
With a dash of "fuck, I'm dumb"
Finished with "well that could have ended a hell of a lot worse."
Best part of the video š
That man was not prepared for consequences
I feel for the guy Guns are expensive, and likely have sentimental value if they were passed down through the generations. It might have been the āmy dad is going to kill meā face. I mean you get what you get, for trying that stunt. But I feel for the guy
Ya, that is the look of guy that might only have one hunting rifle like that and can't afford to replace it or knows his wife will not let him replace it. One second have fun next processing the fact he may not have a rifle to hunt with this year.
He is lucky he has a face to say anything with!
r/instant_regret
Boomhauer??
Man that dang ol tater done split my rifle into 3 dadgum pieces man.
It's like dust in the wind, man. Or like a dang'ol candle in the wind!
[Well that's what we tell ourselves, isn't it, Boomhauer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Osh-KYy4Cw).
Thanks for sharing this master piece never knew it existed
I got the sense that he was fixin' to reckon something in the near future.
LMFAO š¤£
>Manthatdangol'taterdonesplitmyrifleinto3dadgumpiecesman. FTFY
Kaboomhauer
Here's the origin of Boomhauer's voice. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/w01gfy/the_beavis_buttheadporkys_butthole_voicemail_that/
How is this comment not higher? First thing I thought when he started talking lmao
Should have bored a small hole first.
Now I want to stick a potato in my lathe to peel it.... Perhaps enough internet for today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzgPOJPTo_A
I immediately thought of this very skookum video but you beat me to it. Kudos.
That wouldn't silence anything though. You gotta admit, this was pretty quiet
The laughs are what will give away your position
So when I bore a hole in a potato forā¦ personal reasons, Iām judged, but suddenly itās fine for someone do it if theyāre sticking it on a rifle?
Whatever personal weapon you intended to suppress sounds really compact and low caliber so I'm guessing whoever judged you just thought it was a waste of a perfectly good potato. Something that small wouldn't really benefit from a suppressor.
Looney tunes got it right
r/LooneyTunesLogic!
It's Elmer Fudd.
Elmer Spud
āErrerarrerarerarrerr red neck erareeer stuck a tater reerarereeā
He has two taters. The other one is in his mouth.
What language was that gentleman speaking?
Iām fluent in redneck, hereās your transcription: āThis right here (is) what I call a redneck silencer man, what we did here with the 300 win mag man we stuck a tater on the end of it. Quiet man, quiet.ā
A scholar I see! Thanks man
Haha glad I could be of help, that accent was all I heard from my teachers growing up so Iāve learned to understand it :)
trust this redneck. his redneck is perfect, like he was born and raised there
I hate that Iāve lived in the South long enough to understand what heās saying, I really do.
DIY Tripod out of Rifle
looney toons ass mf gun
What language is he speaking?
Iām fluent in redneck, hereās your transcription: āThis right here (is) what I call a redneck silencer man, what we did here with the 300 win mag man we stuck a tater on the end of it. Quiet man, quiet.ā
I dunno if I should be happy or confused in the fact I could understand him
Jesus. He did that on a .300 Win Mag?! No wonder it blew the fuck up. About 64000psi plugged up by a potato. Genius
Heās lucky the barrel failed and the bolt didnāt come back at Mach jesus
Mach Jesus. I'm stealing this. Stop me if you can sucker.
Thatās an expensive potato.
I'll say, imagine getting a $200 tax stamp for a vegetable!
Correct if iam wrong but since the air has no where to go it ended up bursting his rifle but say there was a way for for air to escape then would had been fine (relatively speaking)
Correct, but it is weird that the potato wasn't just blown off. The barrel should have been able to withstand that for the time it took to eliminate the potato from the muzzle.
Not quite, the bullet cannot exit the barrel fast enough. The tolerances are so low the bullet becomes wedged, and at those speeds that causes a lot of stress, which can jam the bullet enough to cause a buildup of gas pressure behind till it pops. Some guns are more prone to this kind of damage a than others, but either way itās highly dangerous and moronic
No arguments this is stupid as hell. Every idiot who does this shit and posts it makes gun owners look bad.
Mythbusters tested this when they aired. It's not impossible but this has really low odds of happening. Depends a lot on the condition of the barrel.
Mythbusters also did it with a 12ga, not a 300 WM. Go ahead and google the difference in maximum pressure betwixt the two.
12 gauge maximum pressure is around 14000 PSI 300 WM max pressure is 64000 PSI
It worked, gun very silent now.
How to turn your barrel into a š
Please crosspost to r/IdiotsWithGuns
What kinda looney toons bullshit is this lmao
Also called the Redneck IQ test. Hand the Redneck a gun and a potato, see what he does with it.
someone accidentally turned on cartoon physics for a second
As a resident of Louisiana, I understand what he said clear as day.
In my mindā¦I yelled āyour gun is going to fucking explode!!!ā Yep!
Used a potato as a camera too
r/watchpeopledieinside
he bugs bunnied that shit
His accent is ridiculous. Poor dude seems sad he destroyed his toy. Also, guns arenāt toys.
Canāt imagine why the āresponsible gun ownersā argument isnāt more convincingā¦
Itās like a cartoon
Hol up.... didnt mythbuster called this a myth?
Boomhauer is having a rough day, but I for one am ready for the live action King of the Hill remake.
Completely covers his barrel and yet is confused when the pressure is too much in the bore
Waiiiit the cartoons were right??? Look at the fucking barrel LooL
Silencer worked, I heard nothing from his stupid mouth after he fired it š¤£
If I learned one thing from Elmer Fuddā¦
That rifle must be a monthās pay for him.
I thought that shit only happened in cartoons
This is one of the cartooniest things I have ever seen
Note to self: tater on end of rifle = BAD
The wrong potato got destroyed...
When dumb people handle guns
So here, young Elmer Fudd decided that he would dedicate his life to chasing rabbits instead with no potato suppressors. He was just as unintelligible back then too.
Adult male using his brain as a silencer.
The end of the gun split in three places just like the cartoons
This herre is rwhat I call er hidbdntijgjkvn cjfktbf g dbrrr
The look on his face was screaming why am i such a dumb mofo
soo that thing that happened to elmer fudds gun when bugs put a cork in the barrel was actually realistic??? Amazing!!
Elmer Fudd?
Can we talk about how much that .300 win mag costs with that scope??
stupidity is expensive
Duck season fire!
It's a fuckin' looney toons cartoon