Well, I started my morning off with a bang today. I’ve got a few hog traps set and was making my daily run around checking them first thing this morning. I got to my last trap and had a couple pigs in there so I grabbed my little savage .22 that I keep in my pickup and go to dispatch them.
I shoot the first one with no issue, then I pull the trigger on the second hog and get met with a huge bang and pieces flying out of the bottom of my rifle along a face full of unburnt powder. I was running a suppressor on the rifle, and it was as loud if not louder than a short barrel AR with a brake on it.
After checking to make sure I still had all my fingers, I started assessing the damage. The hog dropped immediately, so the bullet obviously left the barrel. The magazine blew out of the bottom and broke all of the spot welds on it and came apart in several pieces. Bolt was slightly hard to open and the case head was separated and stuck to the bolt face, the rest of the case was still in the chamber. The bottom metal of the rifle is slightly bent, but the rifle is otherwise fine. The dead air mask I was running is completely fine as well.
My best guess is that particular round somehow got a double charge of powder. I really wouldn’t have guessed that a .22 would have enough pressure to blow out of a bolt gun like that, but I was certainly proven wrong.
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I shoot the first one with no issue, then I pull the trigger on the second hog and get met with a huge bang and pieces flying out of the bottom of my rifle along a face full of unburnt powder. I was running a suppressor on the rifle, and it was as loud if not louder than a short barrel AR with a brake on it.
After checking to make sure I still had all my fingers, I started assessing the damage. The hog dropped immediately, so the bullet obviously left the barrel. The magazine blew out of the bottom and broke all of the spot welds on it and came apart in several pieces. Bolt was slightly hard to open and the case head was separated and stuck to the bolt face, the rest of the case was still in the chamber. The bottom metal of the rifle is slightly bent, but the rifle is otherwise fine. The dead air mask I was running is completely fine as well.
My best guess is that particular round somehow got a double charge of powder. I really wouldn’t have guessed that a .22 would have enough pressure to blow out of a bolt gun like that, but I was certainly proven wrong.
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