Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
Wear your safety glasses folks.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
Absolutely astonishing, and a reminder of Who's really in charge. Amen, Brother.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
one lucky sob for sure, but using questionable rounds, is well. don't have to go there as we all should know, its touted regularly in different threads, un known orgin of production can be an issue, proven here,
good on him living thru it
Rj
good on him living thru it
Rj
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
I don't need the tee shirt ... I want to know what glasses he had on!!!
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
That specific round was a Sabotaged Light Armor Piercing round.Suck My Glock wrote: ↑April 29th, 2021, 5:20 pmYeah, that was a mid 80's development. I think it stood for Saboted Light Armor Piecing. The idea was to try to use hyper-velocity sub-caliber projectiles to better perforate APCs and other light armor at urban battlefield distances. They sliced through steel like hot butter, but as you saw in the video, accuracy was always poor, and ultimately was the prime reason the program was abandoned.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
Good oneAzgunlover69 wrote: ↑April 30th, 2021, 8:14 am
That specific round was a Sabotaged Light Armor Piercing round.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
That gentleman is extremely fortunate all things considered.
Those 50 BMG sabot rounds he had didn't look like the original ones I've seen. They likely weren't the original ones as some reloaded ones were out there when sabots were available. Also the length of the sabot means not all 50's can chamber them safely as they seat longer. That'll also cause over pressure even if they didn't have them wildly overloaded.
Those 50 BMG sabot rounds he had didn't look like the original ones I've seen. They likely weren't the original ones as some reloaded ones were out there when sabots were available. Also the length of the sabot means not all 50's can chamber them safely as they seat longer. That'll also cause over pressure even if they didn't have them wildly overloaded.
Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
Holy!!!!
That couldn't have gone better for being a bad of a catastrophic failure as it was.
That couldn't have gone better for being a bad of a catastrophic failure as it was.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
He is aware of the issue chambering them in standard .50 barrels - he has different ones for that rifle and mentioned he had the correct barrel in the gun for the SLAP rounds.brandyspaw wrote: ↑April 30th, 2021, 10:23 am That gentleman is extremely fortunate all things considered.
Those 50 BMG sabot rounds he had didn't look like the original ones I've seen. They likely weren't the original ones as some reloaded ones were out there when sabots were available. Also the length of the sabot means not all 50's can chamber them safely as they seat longer. That'll also cause over pressure even if they didn't have them wildly overloaded.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
I’d be out the second I realized how that thing worked.
Yeah I’m cautions.
Yeah I’m cautions.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
HOLY BAGEEZUS! He is one lucky MF.
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
I had an m1 garand that happened kinda like that. I was lucky that I just had to have some shrapnel removed but no life threatening injuries like him. It is amazing how fast he’s recovering; out of the hospital in 8 days is so quick!
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Re: Youtuber "Kentucky Ballistics" nearly dies when his .50BMG explodes in his face
That is crazy. Glad he will be ok.