Exploded Model 10!

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

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...
 
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
 
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!
 
Any adult male who poses a dead cockroach on a toilet and makes farting noises with his mouth needs a serious head check.
 
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
 
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***
 
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.
 
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.
 
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I have a Model 10 Rescue and will happily re-home any of your Model 10s :-)
PM me if you need to find a new home for yours :-)
 
What a maroon.
The residue of a nice gun lacks a top sideplate screw and is therefore no older than the mid 1950s. I could not see if it had a cylinder stop screw, dropped in 1961. I don't call a gun made in my lifetime "old."
Therefore it is probably a real Model 10 (H frame, right) and at least a "pre-10." And therefore probably "rated" for +P and in no way weak or poorly heat treated.
Grossly overloaded. In the great Detonating Bullseye Scandal, it took more than a double charge, at or near a triple charge to fragment a revolver like that.
What a maroon.
"Police Special" indeed. "H frame" phooey.

I am sorry to have reinforced bad behavior by adding to his hit count.
What a maroon.
 
I'm betting that if we sent this joker a brand new .500 he would find a way to overcharge and explode it and then blame the gun on YouTube. Any takers?
 
I imagine the clown would ignore the "black powder only" admonitions with a muzzleloader, stuff it with smokeless, wreck the gun, and blame the maker. An honorable man would have owned up to inadvertently loading up or firing an overload. I wonder if someone he ticked off loaded some ammo for him and slipped in a blue pill!
 
Perhaps he is not a fool, a "special kind of stupid", a maroon, an idiot or a buffoon. I clicked on the pretty girl firing a .45. The video ends with a sales pitch for product. He may have acquired the 10 for nearly nothing solely to get us to look at his ads.

On a different topic:

*chris* said:
[...] 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
Click to expand...

Hercules developed Red Dot to be a powder with Bulleye’s burning rate that will fill the space in 12 gauge trap loads. Double charging a light .45 ACP target load will over flow powder unto your shell holder. It doesn’t over flow a .38 special but it sure makes it easy to spot a double if you peek into the case. Hercules is now Alliant but Red Dot is still Red Dot.
 
"Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity: and am not to certain about the Universe."
-attributed to Albert Einstein

Best Regards,
ADP3
 
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