Quote:
Originally Posted by Phillip Carr
I agree Richard it is hard to understand how a lead pellet could do this. Then again, I wonder how big of a piece of a fiber wad would it take to bulge a barrel? They say snow in a barrel will bulge a barrel, ( Here in AZ we have never seen snow, I hear its fluffy white stuff) LOL. Just rubbing it in, it was 81 F yesterday when I was out hunting.
I know that high speed projectiles when they strike a stationary object, even when it is soft can react quit unusual. I believe I recall seeing pictures of straw driven into a telephone pole during a tornado.
|
the only barrel damage I have non-anecdotal knowledge of was a Stevens hammer gun with snow in the fluid steel barrels. The shooter had gone muzzle first thru snow covered brush. He knew he had snow on the end of the gun but did not look inside. The fired tube had a single split for a short distance at the muzzle.
i would think that an escaped lead pellet would either roll out the muzzle or be resting on the crimp of the shell where it would either be pushed out with the rest of the load or flattened in the forcing cone. How would it be suspended half way down the barrel to be an impediment to the accelerating shot column?
just wondering