AR-15 Kaboom Hot Load

[Ninety]

WOW.... How in the hell?

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/10/09/ar-15-kaboom-2/

The case head failed and the escaping gas split the upper receiver in two and blasted all it components out. Fortunately he was uninjured. As always, be very careful when reloading!

[SouperMan]

Catastrophic!

[FTC]

Pistol powder...

[cpatbay]

Yes ... that's why reloading must be done with the utmost care.

[bruceflinch]

Article said he was shooting reloads but not Whose Reloads.
Bummer!

[3006mv]

Russian guys comments are hilarious!

[Ninety]

Yea it would be nice to know who's reloads what powder and bullets..

['ol shooter]

I shot someone else's reloads, once. A double charged .44 Mag, if it had been my 29 instead of a Super Black Hawk, I would have been screwed. Lesson learned.

[bohoki]

, I do not refer to weapons made in China slave factories or by capitalist thiefs in den of sin Las Vegas. True KALASHNIKOV RIFLE OF PERFECTION is made by RUSSIANS and does not fail, it cannot fail, unless loaded American-style with 14 kilos of lights and sideways scopes

crazy ivan

[cpatbay]

It's very difficult to have rifle reloads to be double charged because a normal loading already fills the case to 80% of case capacity. The worst you can do is probably a grain or two above your target. Of course, that can be disastrous, too. But just not as dramatic as a double charge load.

[Raralith]

It wasn't a double charge, it was a case head failure. The bottom of the case literally ruptured, and instead of gases pushing the bullet "forward," it just "exploded" and pushed the gasses backwards into the BCG.

[CK_32]

What scares me is the 2 cases pictured. I hope those weren't the condition of his reloads.

Also wish there was more detail. That was a bit bland

[bohoki]

What scares me is the 2 cases pictured. I hope those weren't the condition of his reloads.

Also wish there was more detail. That was a bit bland

i kind of figured they were in the magazine and were dented by the carrier tearing into the magazine

[chad allred]

When I worked at a gun shop 20 years ago we got a bad batch of factory 223...blew up a lot of rifles before we figured it out.even killed a guys camo HK93.
Lucky nobody got hurt

[Enfield47]

Wow, very scary! Are there any signs to watch for that lead to case head separation?