Scary to watch and a warning to shooters to stay away from this combination. Garandthumb has also been shooting .50 Cal recently. Not me, buddy.

I would say be cautious of where u buy ammo from. 1 saturday, had 3 peoples guns explode at KHSC.

The Slap rounds he used were not loaded correctly.

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I would say be cautious of where u buy ammo from. 1 saturday, had 3 peoples guns explode at KHSC.

The Slap rounds he used were not loaded correctly.

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Do you know of what brand they were? Or was it hand loads?

covid will infect everything. Were those rounds vaxed?

Watch out for people in the classifieds trying to pass off reloads as factory. Just a heads up to double check for case dents so you don't get a face full of shrap.

Do you know of what brand they were? Or was it hand loads?

From another vid, sebu said they looked wrong. The red part around the head looked diff from what regular slap rounds look like. He also did a pressure hypothesis  and the round would have to be super hot to do what it did.

Then theres vid of the previous slap round scott fired just b4 the explosion and something was wrong. Iirc unburnt powder igniting infront the barrel. Going by memory.

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Sorry, I meant the incidents at khsc

covid will infect everything. Were those rounds vaxed?

They were obviously BOOSTED!

covid will infect everything. Were those rounds vaxed?

They even got their fourth shot!

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Followup video from another youtuber:



My theory is the threaded cap design of the Serbu is doomed to fail. Even an M38 cap of the highest grade would eventually fail because it is not designed for a 2X safety margin.

A dozen reasons not to stand next to someone firing a .50 cal weapon at KHSC.

Sorry, I meant the incidents at khsc

Idk

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The intrepid Kentucky Ballistics had to get to the root cause of the explosion that damaged his Serbu .50 BMG rifle. We finally learn that the internal pressure was near 200K PSI, around 4X higher than the gun maker's recommended limit. It took a few tries, with the cartridges expanding so much that they were difficult to remove from the chamber. At 24 minutes, we see the kaboom in slow motion.



He deserves a purple heart for the pain he endured, and the courage to experiment to learn the dangerous characteristics of slap rounds.

The intrepid Kentucky Ballistics had to get to the root cause of the explosion that damaged his Serbu .50 BMG rifle. We finally learn that the internal pressure was near 200K PSI, around 4X higher than the gun maker's recommended limit. It took a few tries, with the cartridges expanding so much that they were difficult to remove from the chamber. At 24 minutes, we see the kaboom in slow motion.



He deserves a purple heart for the pain he endured, and the courage to experiment to learn the dangerous characteristics of slap rounds.

He has huge ones. He was back to shooting big caliber pistols once healed enough to show he won't let this stop him or is afraid. Then once his chest area healed, he was back to rifles and shooting big bore stuff.

I'll watch the vid later. 

Vid confirms it was the hot round, combined with SOL factors.

Synopsis if u dont watch the full vid.

Scott fired the remaining 12 SLAP rds he had. Non blew the gun up. But about 7 of them caused the cap to take lots of effort to unscrew. Hes a big dude and he had much difficulty unscrewing.  Then to remove the brass took 10 mins and a vice grip. So had the rd he shot b4 his accident acted in the same way, would Scott have paused for a moment and not shot the defective rd.

Then he shot 1 rd purposelly overloaded to blow the gun. Which it did. Almost everything blew up in the same way, except the ears didnt get sheared off. But the cap blew off and left similar thread sheering marks. The butt stock blew off, and the lower separated from the upper. The base of the brass came off and the rest was stuck inside the barrel.

So all in all, freak accident of combined forces. Makes u wonder how a bolt action 50 would have reacted. I mean any 50 that blows up with that much pressure wouldn't be safe. So i don't think its the guns lack of safety measures thats at fault.  But I get what people are saying about the gun being unsafe, because the way it's designed, the only option for over pressure is to have the end cap come straight back into the shooter.  Compared to other rifles where there are vents or parts don't come straight back into you.  But then again, with such a large caliber and powder, would it really matter?  I would like to see him do the same test with a Barrett M88 and then some kind of bolt action 50cal.  CRS Firearms had a review of the incident that makes sense, but this is above my pay grade, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.



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He read my mind.




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I'll pay $150 for Scott's blown up Barrett. Put it in a glass cabinet, and the let a Russian steal it when they invade Oahu.

Anyone on this island own a Barrett to test against a slap round.