A friend of mine who shoots there sent me this, happened this past Sunday. If its been posted ill delete it. Be careful gentlemen.

Very tragic. Any word on the rifle's caliber and what actually got loaded into it?

Not being much of a rifle guy, I’m wondering what round would have fit in the chamber, that would be so overpowered, that it would cause that kind of damage?

I could see it happening with two different caliber bullets, with both cartridges using the same parent case.
Jam the larger caliber in, causing severe bullet setback with no possible escape.
But I would think you would feel that in the increased amount of resistance in closing the bolt.

How about a short cased cartridge in a long case receiver. Say 308 Win. in a 7mm Rem Mag?

The bloods splatters on the concrete shooting station really drive the diligence point home for me.

Yep. Doesn’t have to be a more powerful round than what it was chambered for.

Just dropped off my old Arisaka, which I suspect my grandfather had bored out to .30-06, with a gunsmith last week to get a chamber casting. Still not sure if I'll shoot it.

Damn!

Once I loaded a 308 in a 270 Ruger 77. The 308 was hand loaded with a round nose 180gr seated out to match my 308 chamber. The 270 fired & the bolt was frozen shut. After I got the bolt open I had a gunsmith check the chamber & all was OK. I never again had more than one caliber ammo on my bench.

That’s my club. No mention of the caliber goof.

There’s only 1 box of ammo on the table and I can’t make out the box end details.

Same with the empty shell case, I don’t recognize what it might be.

I’m wondering if it might have been a squib, despite the wrong caliber sentence.

My sympathies to the guy, I hope he recovers well, physically and mentally.
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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Yep. Doesn’t have to be a more powerful round than what it was chambered for.

This is correct. Just has to be too big for the chamber or a tad too long for the chamber, things like that.

Looks to be a box of Barnes. Can’t make out anything other than that

What rifle is that? Trigger guard floor plate assembly appears to have an integral cover for the trigger mechanism.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
What rifle is WAS that?

FIFY, BTW, shooter is lucky to have lived.

Knew a guy, and present, when he loaded a 308 round into an 03-A3 (30-06) and fired the round. He noticed when extracting the round and finding it was now a straight case.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
What rifle is that? Trigger guard floor plate assembly appears to have an integral cover for the trigger mechanism.

It looks like a Remington 700 to me judging by the bolt and stock.

Jim

*ouch*

I made that mistake once. Luckily, for me, the only damage was to my ego.

I'd been shooting .40 S&W. My buddy let me try whatever 9mm he was shooting. I used my own 9mm ammo.

Both were WWB.

I went back to my pistol, loaded a mag, chambered, aimed, pulled trigger, it felt a little soft and I completely missed the target. "Eh?"

Went to pull the trigger again. Wouldn't budge. "Eh?"

Slide wasn't in battery. "Eh?"

I'd mistakenly loaded my .40 S&W pistol with 9mm.

Since then there's never been two different caliber rounds on my shooting bench at the same time. Not even center-fire and rim-fire or pistol and rifle.

I still have that bulged 9mm case somewhere around here as a reminder.

Looks like he was bleeding heavily. Look at the size of the drops.

That had to be nasty. Hope the range or someone close by had a med kit.

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I'd mistakenly loaded my .40 S&W pistol with 9mm.

Under slightly different circumstances, I saw that happen at a range. It was a rental gun in .40. Per range policy, being a rental, the shooter had to use the range's ammo. Somehow both the shooter and the store employee missed that the gun was .40, and he was sold 9mm.

I saw a picture once - it may have been here - of a rifle fired with a bore sighter still in the barrel. The barrel peeled open like one would a banana.