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Remington 700 Muzzleloader KABOOM – Man’s Bolt Action Rifle Detonates in His Hands [GRAPHIC]

Posted September 20, 2017 in Daily News, Guns & Gear, News, Other Gear & Gadgets, Rifles by Nathaniel F with 61 Comments

Earlier this week, Fierce Firearms sales manager Courtney Crane posted a video and photos of an catastrophic event that occurred while his friend (unnamed) was shooting a Remington 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader bolt action rifle. The event caused the complete destruction of [Read More…]

Man Has INSANE Out of Battery Firing with Savage Axis – How Can This Happen?

Posted October 24, 2016 in Daily News, News, Other Gear & Gadgets by Nathaniel F with 55 Comments

WARNING: Some of the photos in the links embedded in this post are graphic. A man in New Brunswick, Canada, experienced a very unusual kind of out of battery firing with his Savage Axis rifle, in which the firing pin released and struck the primer while the bolt and [Read More…]

Guns that Go Boom… Badly

Posted July 23, 2015 in Guns & Gear, News by Nathan S with 45 Comments

Wide Open Spaces has collected an impressive amount of photos of various catastrophic detonations in firearms. While most of them would likely have left the shooter stunned, there are a few that I would hazard caused some damage to both the gun and the shooter. [Read More…]

Century Arms AK-74 Explosion

Posted January 13, 2015 in AK-47 / AK-74 / Everything AK by Nicholas C with 32 Comments

Brendon Davis documented his first time firing his Century Arms AK-74. It has a spectacular explosion. It looks like the shooter got lucky and did not receive any damage. Here are two pictures that shows the aftermath.

KRISS Vector Out Of Battery Detonation

Posted October 8, 2014 in Companies, Guns & Gear, NFA / Suppressors / Class III, Pistols, Rifles, Shooting Accessories by Nicholas C with 32 Comments

Here is a rare occurrence. A KRISS Vector having an out of battery detonation. Tyler Moore, sent me pictures of his Vector’s malfunction. Here is the brass that caused the problem. According to Tyler on KRISSTALK.com: Sooo, on my fifth round at the range this [Read More…]

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