Exploded Model 10!

[.455_Hunter]

Take a look at this guy's video...

Old 38 Police Special "EXPLODED" in my hand! S & W - YouTube

His comments are very interesting.

 

[EdF702]

Those remaining rounds look anything but factory.... Of course, the exploded top strap and cylinder could have had something to do with that, but the bullets show a very suspicious "line" about 1/4 inch from the tip.... Plus those rounds are awfully long...

I shoot the heck out of my old model 10 and all I ever get is smiles!

 

[Skeetr57]

Sure looks like a double load of Bullseye to me. Rapid fire didn't have anything to do with it.

 

[Gunsnwater]

The bullets are pulled forward out of the cases. Overload. Probably double charge of a fast powder. One the other hand pm me on any 10's you want to sell cheap cause they are dangerous.

 

[beagleye]

H frame? Maybe the same number of grains as letters off.

 

[EdF702]

"If you insist on being a fool, at least keep your mouth shut and be a quiet one...."

My Dad

So he screws up.... It takes a "special kind of stupid" for your first inclination is to post a video on YouTube to show the world just how dumb you are!

And I just love how he "sprinkles factory ammo boxes" all over the background "....No one will suspect..."

 

[ElToro]

anybody worried about the strength of their model 10, send to me for safe keeping, i will pay shipping...

what a tool.

 

[oldafsp]

Hmmm, I guess I shouldn't have put 250 rounds last weekend through my 10-5 standard barrel.....

Another reason not to use Bubba's homemade handloads...that he didn't check.

It's really simple. Weigh each completed round. It shows up real quick on your digital scale if the charge isn't correct...

 

[*chris*]

Do you guys see how what is left of the cylinder is seriously bulged on both sides, was that a double or triple charge of powder? Not hard to see that it was an over-pressure failure, not just "stress cracks."

Although the 38/357 is one of my favorite cartridges I do hate that the case fill is so low. I would pay Winchester more money for a bulked up W231 that would fill 2/3rd of the case. Probably fix the position sensitivity issues as well.

Chris

 

[Iggy]

Hoss Puckey!!

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Blowing up like crazy? Man I gotta get a shovel and dig a big hole and toss all my old .38 Special revolvers in before that happens to me!

 

[sophie]

I don't own a "H" frame M10. I wonder where he got that one?

 

[mkk41]

His comments are very interesting.

Interesting to say the least!

Must have been using those dreaded +P rounds!

 

[mikeruns]

If you look at his other videos, you can see he poofed a stainless ruger service-six as well....

 

[71firebird400]

If you look at his other videos, you can see he poofed a stainless ruger service-six as well....

If you look at his other videos you can see we are dealing with an idiot.

 

[05CarbonDRZ]

Any adult male who poses a dead cockroach on a toilet and makes farting noises with his mouth needs a serious head check.

 

[alaskavett]

His "work" seems to resurface from time to time. I can't believe he has not yet blown his self up with his staged stupidity. Hey, I wonder if he might like to buy some of my worn out old guns for his next educational video??? Kyle

 

[ISCS Yoda]

BULLSPIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did the exact same thing to a Model 19 in 1997. I bought the gun in 1980, I had used it some but not heavily, and at the range I had 6 loose rounds left of .38 Special (+P maybe) that I bought from a handloader at a gun show. The first 5 went off as expected. The 6th went off with a supersonic crack that sounded more like a rifle than a handgun. The gun bucked in my hands quite differently than it ever had before.

I stood there for a moment, dumfounded, then tilted the gun back to look at it. I have called it "revolver on the half shell" ever since. Since it was my last round I didn't have crunched cartridges in the bottom half chambers; instead, I had what amounted to powdered cases. All of the brass was shattered into tiny pieces.

It was an outdoor range and I was alone in the morning so neither I nor anyone else was injured. The rangemaster let me go out to look for the top strap and top half of the cylinder and he helped me and we never found them - but it's a large range and there was no telling where the broken parts went. I found the rear sight 20 feet or so behind my shooting position and off to the right. I still have it somewhere amongst some shooting gear.

I sent the gun to Smith & Wesson for a metallurgical examination. If it was metallurgy they said they'd give me a new gun. If it was hot ammunition they said they'd sell me a new gun at their cost. I believed them when they told me it was overloaded ammunition and that's how I acquired my CS-45 ("any gun" was their deal).

I second the emotion of another writer above - if you have a Model 10 that you think is too old and brittle to shoot I will take good care of it -ship it my way. The guy in the video is totally misinformed and full of it - he used the wrong ammunition!

***GRJ***

 

[ron farmer]

I think that guy or someone else did something wrong or stupid with regard to the ammunition involved in this. I cannot imagine what was done wrong but that ring around the remaining bullets looks really suspicious. Ain't any thing wrong with a S&W produced in the same period as that one. I have similar Smiths and I cannot wait to get to the range with them. Goin' in a few hours in fact when we lose some of this heat.

 

[loc n load]

Blown up

IMO he blew up the gun with a double charge....I have seen four guns blown up over 40 years with double charges of fast burning powders, ...an N frame Smith & a K frame & they looked just like the one in his video.....which blew off the top strap and a portion of the cylinder, a 1911A1 in an IPSC match.....blew the mag out, flattened the sides of the cartridges, blew the grips off, and cracked the slide where the slide release lever went thru the frame, and a G-21.....which simply left only the grip frame....each event was announced with a tremendous "Boom" and left no doubt that something bad had just occurred....operator error on all accounts.