>becomes infamous after a catastrophic malfunction that nearly kills a guntuber
>said guntuber decides to figure out what happened after recovering from his injuries
>thinks the ammo he was testing during the accident may have been the cause
>tests the ammo and is able to fire all of it, albeit with extraction issues
>finally tries a round intentionally loaded way over pressure
>gun explodes in the exact same way
>guntuber concludes that the particular round fired during the accident was loaded similarly and was what caused it
>people STILL think the gun was at fault
Frick off Matt
you have to understand that /k/ is full of morons
the serbu is a perfectly fine design, but anything that uses a screw is going to be inherently weaker than any other system of locking
Almost every single action is held together with a screw thread. It is not inherently weaker than a lug.
What fricking guns are you using that utilize a screw for it's locking method?
You've never looked at a barrel?
The same force pushing back on the bolt is also trying to push the barrel forward and strip its threads.
There have also been multiple rifles using interrupted threads on the bolt.
Are you talking about rifling? Because nearly every firearm made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries utilize a rotating, lugged bolt locking system
how do you think whatever it is the lugs lock into are attached to the barrel?
>that thread damage
That's from the pin in the extention. Which is added after the extention is torqued.
>What is peening?
the vast majority of rifles have pressure-bearing threads at some point near the breech.
No. Do you not know that barrels are threaded onto receivers? Go watch how an AR barrel is put on. It’s really simple.
Some of the the largest cannons ever built used threaded breech closures.
However, unlike Serbu, who wanders around the plumbing section of Home Depot to get inspired, they have the threads on the INSIDE of the breech.
It's a fricking pipe bomb
anon, the only reason cannons have the threads inside the breech is that it's easier and lighter to do it that way. There's more surface area around the outside of the breech and thus more threads, which means there's more threads holding the cap/breech block onto the gun.
Other than you having a preconceived notion, why would more threads and more surface contact area between the two parts be weaker around the outside?
>the only reason cannons have the threads inside the breech is that it's easier and lighter to do it that way
Stop digging, fool. it's precisely the reverse
i know what an interrupted screw breech is anon, but if they tried to do it the other way with the threads outside, the breech would be enormously large and heavy, even if it was stronger.
holy fricking shit, IT WILL NOT BE STRONGER EVER that's why the threads are on the INSIDE
The strength is proportional to the cross sectional area of the threads.
Threads external to the breech have more area.
that's what i tried to tell him, but he's deadset that less threads are stronger as long as they're inside the breech for some reason
>as long as they're inside the breech for some reason
>for some reason
Let's start very simple, anon. What is pressure?
This is clearly bait but i took it.
To get the equivalent locking strength of a threaded plug on a .50 breech the ass end of the Serbu would have to be the size of a fricking grapefruit you unkempt morons
BECAUSE
the strength of the thread CoF is not the limiting factor it's the fricking metal it's made out of.
the threads on Serbu's HoMade PipeBomb(TM) didn't fail, the fricking material it was made of failed.
JFC i need a drink now.
frick you
That’s not true at all. Strength depends on how many threads and the depth of them. You could easily have more surface area on the outside. It might be too bulky but it can be stronger.
>It might be too bulky but it can be stronger.
>wood is just as strong as concrete if i just use enough of it
this is how you sound
>if I make up an entirely different argument I win
Why are threads of the same size, same number, and same depth stronger internally than externally?
Oh hey, it's the moron that thinks interrupted threads are stronger than a full thread.
How ya been?
>the serbu is a perfectly fine design, but anything that uses a screw is going to be inherently weaker than any other system of locking
>inherently weaker
Being threaded is not inherently weaker. It is only a question of how big and how many threads there are.
It is possible to design a gun to fail more gracefully from an over-pressurized chamber. However, a conventionally designed gun with front locking lugs probably would have thrown the whole bolt back in his face and brained him in the process.
Its not really the screw that's the issue, its the little wings behind it that can shear off and become shrapnel that are the problem.
>Its not really the screw that's the issue, its the little wings behind it that can shear off and become shrapnel that are the problem.
It was those very wings that kept the cap from going through his head instead of glancing off of his head like it did.
In his video Matt suspects the massive end cap wouldve fractured his skull if it didn't happen to hit him on his safety glasses. I find it telling that he only ever shoot 50s with his semi auto now.
>I find it telling that he only ever shoot 50s with his semi auto now.
He probably strictly uses factory ammo now as well, instead of Bubba's .50 BMG pipebomb specials.
And if it wasn't for those ear caps people keep talking shit about, the end cap would have gone into his skull
>Thank God for these amazing safety features on my pipe bomb!
At the pressures required to sever the ears, a blow-out hole would still be cracking open by the time the case-head was pushing the bolt out through the back of the gun. You're a fricking moron.
A pressure relief hole would vent pressure as soon as it happened, thereby reducing the pressure. How the hell do you figure the gun would be blowing up before pressure vents out a hole?
>How the hell do you figure the gun would be blowing up before pressure vents out a hole?
because of how fast the power burned causing the absurd pressure to begin with.
>causing the absurd pressure to begin with
Because it was a sealed system, genius.
>adding a hole a tenth of the diameter of the barrel is going to relieve enough pressure to prevent a catastrophic kaboom, when during the accident the breech blew off before the round had even exited the barrel
No, what it's going to do is frag the breech, throw around some extra shrap, and still blow the back end off. Again, the case head hit the bolt so hard it peened in the head stamp. With a chunk of brass. On steel. The Barret, which has vent holes and an inherently weaker design, blew pieces of the bolt and trunnion at lethal velocity out the back and sides of the gun.
Vent holes are designed to relieve an accidental double-charge, not a penta-charge with powder burning multiple times faster than the intended charge.
Screws are perfectly fine for locking.
If anything they supply excellent amounts of surface area.
The US Army even has been seeking to use screw style breeches as a means of bearing super high pressure ammo.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/us-army-high-velocity-machine-gun/
This is likely to come into play for whatever comes next after the current NGSW pair.
>but anything that uses a screw is going to be inherently weaker than any other system of locking
Sigh. Do you have any idea how the guns in pic related are locked?
Here's my gripe with the whole system: those ears only provide so much shear surface, and become projectiles once they're torn off. If Serbu simply doesn't cut the channel behind those ears, it's a massive cap deflector that prevents what happened to Matt. It saves on machining time, but adds some weight, and you'd need a hammer extension. It's a .50 cal so weight isn't a problem, and the cost savings on machining time offset the hammer extension.
''The spec'' is what SAAMI or CIP consider to be maximum safe loadings of ammunition - but they are tested to a proof value of that, so well over that pressure.
For example, CIP maximum means that the average of a tested lot of ammunition must be 100% of that maximum pressure (it may not be higher). However, an individual round may go up to 115% of that pressure, and the firearm is proof tested at 125% of that pressure.
A hammer extension isn't really necessary since your thumb fits between the ears. There is no reason to machine out that area, Serbu is a hack.
Serbu is one of the greatest modern weapons manufacturers.
By which measurable specific metrics?
It isn't owned by israelites
Why do you imagine that witty?
Even Stormfront confirms Mark Serbu isn't israeli so therefore YOU must be a israelite sabotaging his business, perhaps for his israeli-owned competitors:
https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t661738/
Lying about weapons on a weapons board is not great look. Did you imagine someone wouldn't know better?
Wow you really got me good there
Perhaps you can consider looking into reading comprehension next
Serbu is israeli. Serbu is a israeli surname that goes back hundreds of years and Serbu's family are Holocaust victims and survivors. It's not a secret, he's proud of it
its insane that he survived it at all.
Its really too bad actually
His videos are cringe so I don't watch them, but he seems like a good Christian family man and his videos get some young people interested in guns.
The problem isn't that it exploded, its that it exploded TOWARD MATT. If the gun had been engineered to fail at the top instead of the back with a simple pressure venting hole he'd have been uninjured.
That's like blaming the car for not saving you when you ran into a wall with it.
If a car doesn't have a front crumble zone it fricking SHOULD be blamed.
This right here. Crumple zones are a miracle. Prolly saved more lives than seatbelts at this point
I want the crumble zone to be the other guys car not mine. fricking new pieces of shit shatter into a million pieces if you hit a coon at 20mph
And airbags, and belts, and auto-breaking with sensors, and yadda, yadda, yadda. Nothing can save you from your own moronic decisions.
But it can. The safest modern cars can be driven into a wall at full speed without killing the driver.
And the Serbu could have engineered in a weaker area that would cause it to fail sooner, but always in a manner that would not injure the shooter.
okay anon, describe how you could engineer this specific design to explode in a safe way when turned into a literal bomb
Make one section of the chamber much thinner so that an explosion is directed that way. Top, bottom, one of the sides, just anything but back toward the shooter. If it's weakened enough, it will also stop pressure from building so high. Basically weaken one part of the gun so it fails at anything 10% over spec and failures happen through that part AND they happen with less force. You get broken guns much more easily, but broken people much less easily.
Yes it is. The designer should not be designing unsafe vehicles.
>The designer should not be designing unsafe vehicles
They're not inherently unsafe.
KB tested a Barret with the same pressure loading and it blew chunks of the bolt directly through the kill zone for a right-handed shooter. The problem wasn't the Serbu, it was effectively putting a slug of C4 in the chamber. This was not a "hot handload".
The Serbu blew up from pistol powder, not C4. The Barrett blew up from actual literal C4. Even if the pressure is the same it is not generated in a similar way. Pressure from powder stops building if the gun ruptures elsewhere, C4 can generate a pressure wave even in open air.
I'm a different guy, but personally I'd make it so those ears that go over the cap are beefed way up to the point where an explosion wouldn't knock them loose and turn them into deadly projectiles for one.
>how you could engineer this specific design to explode in a safe way
not that homosexual but put a failsafe zone into the top of the chamber facing forward, so it will give way at IDK maybe 25% lower PSI than the breech lock
Drill a couple of gas vent holes around the perimeter of the cap.
>Drill a couple of gas vent holes around the perimeter of the cap.
That would not be enough, unfortunately. The base of brass is extremely hard and thick from the forming process. The best place for a blowout to occur (read as the thinnest part of the brass) is close to where the bullet is crimped in place.
There is no way for a blowout to occur there since it is supported by the chamber. Cases blow at the unsupported section in the rim area.
>There is no way for a blowout to occur there since it is supported by the chamber. Cases blow at the unsupported section in the rim area.
Indeed, that is why vent/blow-out holes used to be a thing like in:
In the thread's topical case, and in response to the guy who suggested putting vent holes around the perimeter of the cap, I provided a counter that it would not be enough and would need to be located further up away from the base of the brass.
Sure, a Chinese car might not save you where a Volvo would. Yes, it's a worse design from a safety standpoint. Is it the design's fault? No.
>Is it the design's fault? No.
What the frick did he mean by this?
It's not the design's fault you used it in a manner you weren't supposed to.
It's the same logic as blaming guns for murder or suicide.
>Is it the design's fault?
if its a shit design, then yes you dumb bastard, it is the designs fault. holy frick, just stop breathing.
>The safest modern cars can be driven into a wall at full speed without killing the driver.
Huh really? I encourage you to go give that a shot. Hopefully your car at least gets to 125. Make sure you hit the wall square too.
You actually want a 1/3 offset to the driver side for maximization on the impact. Nice 125mph impact for 1/3 of the car.
>The safest modern cars can be driven into a wall at full speed without killing the driver.
By full speed you mean 45mph. Maybe 70mph. Well within the normal driving parameters. The round he shot would be like driving 150mph. How’s that collision going to go?
>driving into walls at 45mph is normal driving parameters
Are you really this desperate to dodge the point? You could have easily just posted nothing.
Yes driving at 45mph is very normal. And every modernist vehicle can handle wrecks at that speed. They can’t at 150mph which is what this would be like.
What’s your issue with that?
Crumble zones aren't going to save you if a bomb goes off in your dashboard.
Yes, but I don't live in Ireland
In terms of things that might go wrong when driving, a bomb in your dashboard is catastrophic but fairly unlikely.
Contrast with different ammo loads being used, that's more likely to occur so it's reasonable to take it into account at least somewhat when designing the firearm.
Thats a reasonable complaint tbh.
Your car should keep you safe in an accident. Thats what the guys at NHTSA test car crashes with new models and give ratings.
Subaru and tesla always win.
Anyway, besides the point. Serbu’s poverty pusher is seen as a pipe bomb. Will never not be one.
No amount of “its safe bro” or testing will ever save it from pipe bomb status.
Mark should dump the design and come up with a new gun.
He already has a superior poorgay design
Poorgays were too poor for it
He should admit his fault, drill some vent holes in the cap, and issue a recall of all old caps. There's nothing inherently wrong with the design, it's fine.
>Thats what the guys at NHTSA test car crashes with new models and give ratings.
This is the equivalent of driving a car into a concrete wall at 145 miles per hour then blaming tesla for not making a safe car.
>If the gun had been engineered to fail at the top instead of the back with a simple pressure venting hole he'd have been uninjured.
The bullet exploded with so much force that it sheared off the metal bits directly behind the breach. And based on how the threads of the breach cap sheared off, the internal pressure is estimated to be 160,000 psi which is more than 100,000 more than what the gun is rated for. There's only so much you can do at that point.
pic rel
If the gun was engineered to fail at 10% over 50bmg spec it could have never built to that pressure.
It also wouldn't pass proof and would run the risk of randomly failing with normal loads.
Hell, go 75% over spec. But it should be intentionally failing in a predictable manner WAY before over double the rated pressure. It's possible to build things too strong. A bomb is only a bomb if it lets pressure build. If it simply breaks the gun before dangerous pressures there's no risk to the shooter.
Anon the gun went 300% over spec. Any gun would explode and likely to cause severe injury.
And it wouldn't have gone 300% over spec if it was designed to be weaker and break sooner.
So? If you have a point on the gun that always breaks at 90,000psi the gun simply cannot build up to 160,000psi as that part will blow out in fractions of a second.
It wouldn't have gone 300% over speck if he wasn't using moronicly over pressured rounds either.
A gun should be designed with the fact an enemy may attempt to sabotage it with intentionally dangerous rounds in mind and as such be designed to fail in a way these rounds cannot harm the user.
Sorry I forgot when this a rifle that is intended to be used at war and when literally anybody designed guns like this
>A gun should be designed with the fact an enemy may attempt to sabotage it with intentionally dangerous rounds
>something that’s only happened once (or is well documented once) when the US fought rice farmers
>this means civilian guns should all be designed for use in war against a crafty enemy
Do you realize how fricking stupid you sound? It’s a sub $1000 single shot .50 BMG. It’s not meant for an army and no one thinks it should be. It’s a recreation gun.
It happened a bunch in Syria. There's a webm out there of a guy firing a few mortar rounds until one explodes his tube and him.
Are you seriously defending the argument that every gun needs to be as heavy and cumbersome as a fricking boat anchor just because some glownigs MIGHT randomly sabotage a few pallets of ammo that you MIGHT eventually buy and use in your rifle? Is that really the standard you want to set?
It’s still a fricking moronic idea. Comparing a mortar likely using decades old explosives isn’t the same thing as a gun and bullet anyway
How do you manage to survive being this dumb
By using guns that don't blow shit out the back into my chest when they fail.
No I mean how do you find food, water and shelter consistently.
I’m honestly baffled you can spell when your concept of reality is so warped.
You're the one with an attraction to poorly designed deathtraps.
“Poorly designed in the event of a catastrophic detonation” yeah okay genius what’s your bright idea for preventing and spiked round from detonating your gun design? Clearly Barrett and magnum research couldn’t pull it off but I’m all ears for you.
By making the gun detonate more easily in another direction. Weaken the sides so it blows shit out that way instead of toward the shooter.
Well you better get to work because you just described a gun that doesn’t exist.
Just think how rich you’ll be when you present it to the us military.
>behold the first gun that can safely explode at THREE HUNDRED PERCENT AND ABOVE maximum pressure!
>zero over pressure from my patiented gun blow out panels!
>front AND rear locking lugs! Definitely won’t turn into more debris!
>4 inch thick barrel profile! Weighs a lot but the shrapnel is heavier too so it flys slower!
You are without a doubt the dumbest person who uses this website and that’s saying something.
Please for the love of Christ do not reproduce under any circumstances.
It is impossible to get 300% over max pressure using powder if your gun is designed to fail at 150%. The solution isn't to make the gun stronger but to make it MUCH weaker so it readily fails in a predictable and directed manner. Like an overpressure valve in a steam boiler.
You should try selling this idea to every gun manufacturer on the planet.
Most of them already do it by having a giant opening on the side of the gun instead of loading from the back like a fricking artillery piece.
Sure is a good thing I live in the real world and not a fantasy land where it's a worry I have, yeah?
The ATF are going to be contaminating ammunition supplies with sabotaged rounds so you should be worried unless you're like 60 and will be dead before they start.
He's a fricking moron, but what if the cause of KB's accident actually was sabotaged ammo? Everyone assumes it was an extra-extra-hot handload, but what if someone got a hold of some .50 BMG and fricked with them, and KB was just unlucky enough to fire one?
*.50 BMG that was still in military possession, I meant.
what I don't get is why if it was super rare ammo that was old, that he didn't take it apart and properly reload it? It wouldn't take too long to do it right and would guarantee consistent results since he wanted to test the rare ammo.
Not him, but if I was working with plastic sabots that were old enough to drink I wouldn't be fricking with trying to tear down and reload them. Plus he probably doesn't have even factory .50BMG dies, let alone whatever silly shit Bubba or the CIA used to overpack his ammo.
Taking apart the rounds would have shown him what spec the box he had was loaded to, not the actual specs. It probably would have given more warning that something was in fact up, especially if the powder was sweating nitro, actually a wad of C4, or otherwise looked fricky. But given that he repeatedly ignored overpressure signs on the gun before it failed, if it was just powder I suspect he would have just measured out the average load and tried to match it between the rounds before going back in there and blowing up his gun anyway.
The going theory is some moron put pistol powder in it
Anon the bullet going down the barrel is supposed to relieve pressure. The fact that it was able to build up to over 160,000 psi means the powder was burning way too quickly and the gun was going to blow up regardless of your vent holes being there or not.
>Anon the bullet going down the barrel is supposed to relieve pressure
A bullet going down the barrel is a bullet still in the barrel, sealing in the gases, despite it being an increasing volume. It's a bit different than a vent to atmosphere right in the place where pressurized gases would be an issue.
>laughs in Arisaka
>A bomb is only a bomb if it lets pressure build.
A cartridge going off isn't a slow build up of pressure. It happens in less than a tenth of a second.
>A cartridge going off isn't a slow build up of pressure. It happens in less than a tenth of a second.
What the frick do you think bombs are? Most high explosives build up pressure far faster than any smokeless powder.
guns are built to 100% of the spec. they're not overbuilt. if they can handle a cartridge that is out of spec then they can be made lighter, and will be.
That's the problem with the Serbu. It IS built overspec. If it wasn't built overspec it wouldn't fail in such a dangerous manner.
You don't know what a safety factor is.
If you design a car, you have to design it to handle crashes. You can't just put 'warning, do not get into an accident' on the side and be clear of legal liability.
Would you get mad if your car explodes if you ran nitroglycerine through it?
Exploding is fine. Directing the explosion back to the shooter is not.
>I can't believe they put the gas tank under the passenger seats! Its not my fault the fuel I was using was dangerous!
>If you design a car, you have to design it to handle crashes. You can't just put 'warning, do not get into an accident' on the side and be clear of legal liability.
If the car fulfulls all the legally obligated safety measures put in place and you did moronic shit with it, it's your own fault. Let me describe it with an even closer analogy; if you put +P+ rounds into a gun that isn't rated for them and lose a finger, it's not the design's fault.
>If the car fulfulls all the legally obligated safety measures put in place and you did moronic shit with it, it's your own fault.
I think the point is that those legally obligated safety measures ARE the part where you say "you must design the car to withstand a crash to the best of your ability". Saying it's all the user's fault is like selling them a car from the 1940s where if you get in a crash you get turned into chunky marinara because the car hasn't been made with those kinds of considerations in mind because nobody gave a shit.
>if you put +P+ rounds into a gun that isn't rated for them and lose a finger, it's not the design's fault
It's not the gun design's fault. But it a +P+ round blows a gun, it should still fail in a safer mode.
This shit happened so long ago and yet people are still talking past each other. Most aren't demanding Serbu to take the liability of a full moron round being loaded into his design, people are just saying that in hindsight the RN-50 doesn't have a fail-safe against this issue. No, a rifle should not be built to survive that overpressure event. It should at least be built for shit to blow forward or to the sides under the assumption that there's people behind the rifle and the firing line.
.50BMG proof pressure is 65000PSI.
Anything past that point is beyond what any cartridge should be loaded at.
A gun like the Serbu would reasonably be expected however, to withstand say 90000PSI. That is ~x1.5 proof and gives you a significant safety factor in the case of degraded or otherwise dysfunctional ammuntion. That is very generous to the shooter even.
Very few firearms are built to withstand anything like 100k PSI. The excess weight and expense makes it undesirable on both ends. And beyond that is very rare.
>mfw filling 50bmg cases with H110
floor sweepings reloads, get on my level
Range trash reloads are fun as long as its not your gun and not your face/hands. I do believe IV8888 ran range trash through the nigh unkillable Mansfield glock
Bubba's mystery loads. Buy em by the lot.
>.50 BMG
Way too slow. I ran the numbers in Quickload and the only way you're getting the 300k PSI is through compressing some powders into a solid mass (120% fill or more) or filling at 100% capacity with ultra-fast powders meant for .32 ACP like Accurate #2. I want to say it's the latter mainly because it requires a lot of extra effort to be able to compress powder that hard.
Id love to see that
Literally just don't buy sketchy fricking ammo. Nothing like this has ever been reported with the thousands of other guns that have been sold, but now they're apparently unsafe because someone loaded a bomb into theirs.
When other guns explode from Bubba's pissin hot handloads it just breaks the gun and maybe maims a hand. Most guns simply cannot fail in a way that seriously endangers the shooter's life.
Survivor bias… uncle bubba lefty only tells you that because he lucked out… uncle bubba “slide to the face” isn’t talking much.
And most guns that explode wouldn't have exploded if they didn't try firing rounds Bubba handloaded after huffing brake cleaner
But when the DO explode, the worst that happens is a broken gun. When things do fail, they should fail in a safe manner.
If you packed an entire 45-70 case with the hottest pistol powder you could find and fired it through a trapdoor Springfield, the worst you're going to get is a broken gun. Because it's not an irresponsible design like the Serbu that direces the failure back at the user.
> the worst that happens is a broken gun
This is bullshit. People are routinely killed and maimed when firearms fail.
>what is shrapnel
Something usually blown out the side or top of a gun, not out the fricking back.
Go watch kentucky ballistics series on exploding guns if you think that
It's a two-way street.
Should you intentionally load in questionable or extremely hot ammo assuming your gun will fail safely? No, that's fricking stupid.
But should Serbu .50s be built a bit differently to avoid things like what happened to KB? Maybe.
>If you packed an entire 45-70 case with the hottest pistol powder you could find and fired it through a trapdoor Springfield, the worst you're going to get is a broken gun
Oh really…prove it.
That’s absolute bullshit. Springfield trapdoors were weak actions even in their day. They will not “just break” with higher pressure modern options.
Can you show me any other 160k psi rounds shot through these other guns?
Look at what happens to a Barrett at 6:30
If you had your face next to it you aren’t faring any better than the Serbu.
For fricks sake this isn’t any different than people firing over pressured .40 reloads through glocks and mangling hands. I love to joke about glocks being grenades but the design isn’t inherently unsafe
There is no proof anywhere that it was a160k psi round that destroyed the Serbu gun.
He fired a round estimated at 190k PSI and got almost the exact same result as the original explosion.
>Can you show me any other 160k psi rounds shot through these other guns?
A simple “no” would have sufficed. You actually can calculate when the threads would fail based on thread depth, number of threads, and the material. Although I’ll admit I can’t do that calc.
You clearly didn’t watch the Barrett exploding. Or the video where he blew up another Serbu that took a 190k psi round to do it. Why are you ignoring the other failures that are similar? In the process of blowing up the serbu he had to use vice grips to get the cap off and get the round out. Why are you acting like that’s not insanely overpressured?
Let me reiterate, there is no proof anywhere that it was a 160k psi round that destroyed the Serbu gun *in the original video*
There is only proof that a similar event can be achieved with an overpressure round.
>When other guns explode from Bubba's pissin hot handloads it just breaks the gun and maybe maims a hand.
Let me reiterate. You still can’t show any examples of this.
>There is only proof that a similar event can be achieved with an overpressure round.
>1 in a million event occurs
>recreate the same event with an insanely overpressured round
>nooooo it wasn’t an overpressured round that caused the first one
What’s your theory then?
That the 380 MPa of chamber pressure of a .50 BMG acted on the cap inner surface area of ~1200 mm^2 (approx 40mm diameter disk) due to a case rupture creating 456 000 N or 45 600 kgf of force which the threads couldn't handle because it was only designed to reliably withstand the proof load of 450 MPa over the ~250 mm^2 surface area of the .50 BMG case which offers a mere 112 500 N or 11 250 kgf of force, which is FOUR TIMES less than if a case were to rupture at maximum chamber pressure.
With this dogshit Serbu design a case rupture of an ordinary 380 MPa pressure .50 BMG cartridge creates FOUR TIMES the bolt thrust of a .50 BMG proof test load.
In the original video it is claimed that 85K PSI or 586 MPa is the maximum those threads can handle with the .50 BMG surface area this comes out to 586 MPa * 250 mm^2 = 146 000 N or 14 600 kgf. If not for the closed cavity behind the cartridge this would easily be strong enough but as it stands a totally normal cartridge that ruptures could cause 456 000 N or THREE times the force at which the gun designer says that the breech will blow.
Therefore a case rupture even at a pressure three times less than maximum chamber pressure would be sufficient to blow the cap.
I don’t understand, how does a case rupture impart more force onto the locking parts?
High pressure gases escape into the chamber, putting greater force on the parts.
I'm not too good at physics, but I think it's because of the larger area that the pressure can exert force on.
With an intact case, the case head pushes against the bolt.
Ruptured cases vent gas into the chamber and thus the pressure pushes on the whole area of the bolt face.
> there is no proof anywhere that it was a 160k psi round that destroyed the Serbu gun
calculations based on how the threads sheared off say otherwise.
>A video about a gun blowing up from an overpressure round is not evidence.
kentucky ballistics kept shooting the same lot of rounds he did the first time and noted that the threads kept getting stuck and had trouble getting the bullet casing out. What does that sound like to you?
Just imagine having your business severely impacted because pic related bought some mystery meat ammo off the internet and posted a YouTube video about it.
then the Black person shouldn't have half assed his "investigation" imagine your gun almost killing someone then taking over a year to tell people that it wasn't the gun.
I think he was telling people it wasn't the gun pretty much immediately.
There's a dozen videos up where he goes, in rough order
"holy shit this sucks, we're investigating immediately. I'm pretty sure it's not the gun, mathematically, but we're waiting to get the gun back to find out"
"We have the gun, JESUS CHRIST the overpressure signs"
"Also we're reworking the ears to change the stress pattern"
"We shipped him two more guns from the same lot to try and blow up, wanna find out what this is"
"No it's not the muzzle device you fricking morons, it looks like an overpressure"
"We deliberately and completely blocked the muzzle device and cannot replicate the failure mode"
"Well, we finally replicated the failure and it required catastrophically overloading the case. Also it's still not the muzzle brake and it didn't contribute to the failure, holy frick you idiots".
In those videos you can see the case still in the chamber, which blew out in an even ring at the head. That's consistent with an absolutely insane overpressure. It's partially welded into the chamber, and the case head hit the bolt with so much force it left a layer of brass welded to the surface, and PEENED THE FRICKING HEADSTAMP ONTO THE BOLT FACE. That is not a sign of a case rupture. That is a sign of someone packing several ounces of pistol powder or a nitroglycerine charge into the case.
It's kinda absurd that people still argue about this when kentucky ballistics doesn't even blame the gun.
Did Serbu put a “do not use without reading the manual” engraving somewhere prominent on the gun? And does the manual say “use with standard 50 bmg rounds not crazy shit”. I feel like that would have helped…
In all seriousness… you buy it because it’s a cheap “affordable” 50 BMG…. Maybe don’t try running crazy shit through it…
You should expect bad ammo to ruin your gun, not to endanger your life.
You don’t run modern 45-70 through a trapdoor springfield.. your responsibility is to understand what your weapon is designed to use and what is unsafe to use…
Yes you do.
Modern 45-70 is held to the same spec as the old loads exactly so it can be shot through trapdoors.
Sorry if I explained that poorly, they make modern “trap door suitable” 45-70.. you can also easily buy 45-70 loaded much hotter for bolt actions and non trapdoor guns… don’t use the latter in the former
The trap door suitable is just regular 45-70. The higher pressure loads are the +p loadings and are always labelled as such.
Interesting… so your saying that there is ammo that is designed for a stronger action and that it’s probably the shooters responsibility to understand this? Would you go so far as to say if you ran it through a firearm not rated for it and this caused catastrophic failure that this would be user error?
We all know that you homosexual. You’re trying to use semantics to get out of a conversation you’re losing. Quit acting like a fricking israelite. He clearly means that modern production .45-70 loads meant for modern rifles built to a higher strength standard than original trapdoors. You knew that. I knew that. Everyone else knew that. Just acknowledge it
>You don’t run modern 45-70 through a trapdoor springfield
Are you sure about that?
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Trapdoor loads of .45-70 run 400-440gr at 1300FPS.
That roughly tries to replicate a blackpowder cartridge. 28000PSI is the SAAMI spec, but even a company as ballsy as BuffaloBore will tell you that running below that is safer.
You can also get modern loads of .45-70 that run 400-440 gr at 2000FPS or higher.
The latter will destroy a trapdoor and probably put a piece of shrapnel through your femoral artery while its at it.
Put a Ruger only pissin hawt .45 Colt in an original Peacemaker and see what happens
Reading through this I think the thing that annoys me the most is this unsaid idea that guns should be designed to protect you from doing something questionably unsafe…. Motherfricker YOU are responsible for not doing something intrinsically unsafe… this is how we end up with locking revolvers…
A simple case rupture should not lead to the death of the user, Serbu should be held liable in court for creating and STILL SELLING and incredibly unsafe design.
Most case ruptures don't look like what happened in the video, even .50 BMG ruptures. The round was incredibly hot.
That's because most firearm actions are designed to not fricking explode when the case ruptures. Designers have been designing around the possibility of case ruptures for well over a century now. It's just that case ruptures are so rare nowadays that incompetent designers like Serbu might forget that they exist at all. He has not studied the very basics of firearm design. He should pick up a fricking Mauser and learn.
I think your confusing “simple case rupture” and “I shot a round designed by the marines specifically for the M2 for armor penetration” Anon…
And why do you think that the M2 is magically designed to withstand more pressure than any other gun chambered in .50 BMG? Hint: it is not, because all .50 BMG chambered guns have the same minimum pressure handling requirement.
What happened there was not a case rupture.
It was an extremely overpressure round.
Those are entirely different issues.
If the gun was damaged by a case rupture and say gas jet cutting in the breech, that'd be one thing to criticize it for. But that was not the issue. The issue was that it had a loading that was deliberately spiked tier. Potentially compounded by the muzzle brake on the end interfering with the release of the SLAP sabot increasing pressure within the breech even more.
The chamber pressure curve experiences max pressure just after the bullet has left the case, therefore a muzzle device, or even a plugged muzzle will have no effect on the breech end of the gun. Wherein is it proven that it was not just a case rupture when you can clearly see that a case rupture would be sufficient to blow up the gun due to the breech cap design?
Obstructions in the bore still cause blowouts because they put sustained stress on the action and cause that pressure spike to become sustained.
This is how even a revolver can see its breech and chamber explode if there's a squib in the barrel.
You do not see that a case rupture would be sufficient to do the damage seen in the slightest.
If there was gas jet cutting visible, you could make that argument, but that would instead damage the breech and chamber area. It would not blow out the entire locking thread and send the cap back at the shooter.
Case ruptures put hot gas where its not meant to be and let it scour metal and jet back into the shooter's face. They don't explode the entire gun.
Here's a good example. Where you can see why a case rupture is bad, the hot gas flying in dangerous directions. Not that it explodes the firearm apart. And this is in a gun that isn't otherwise designed to deal with case ruptures.
Or another example
With an AR, where the case blew out, ostensibly sending hot gas at the shooter, but the gun stayed perfectly functional afterwards.
A case rupture could have damaged the extractor due to jet cutting. But otherwise it won't turn a gun into a pipe bomb.
How would the case rupture jet back into the shooters face etc. in this design when it is completely contained inside the threaded cap? Therein lies the very problem, the pressure cannot vent out, not even into the shooters face, and therefore creates a much more dangerous pipe bomb effect.
It doesn't matter.
A case rupture doesn't create more pressure inside the action than a standard detonation will. It literally can't do so significantly because its the same charge being detonated.
What is dangerous about case ruptures is the risk of the hot gas cutting into things. Not the pressure. Hot gas can get underneath extractors and shear them off. Can leave slices in the breech.
The failure of the Serbu was not a locking lug being sheared off from gas cutting. It was the entire breech being ripped off by extreme overpressure in the detonation. If we saw 'slices' in the cap or the chamber area, that'd be indicative of the former. That we instead saw the entire breech cap shot backwards hundreds of feet per second is indicative of the latter.
Force is pressure * area.
This gun is designed to handle chamber pressure * case area.
What happens when you get chamber pressure * cap inner surface area is an explosion.
What happens to pressure when area increases anon?
*volume.
You already stated this earlier and got BTFO’d by many people
The volume is of insignificant size
>A simple case rupture should not lead to the death of the user
Good thing it wasn’t a simple case rupture
Is there any proof of that being the case?
The volume behind the case inside the cap is equivalent to a single inch of barrel. And we know that it takes multiple inches of bullet travel until peak chamber pressure has passed.
See
A single inch of barrel causes a dramatic drop in pressure. You are wrong
Seating depth is simply not the same thing because the cases fracture only after high pressures are already reached. A more fitting comparison is a bullet that is traveling inside the barrel. As you can see from this graph, the bullet travels a long distance at very high pressure, certainly way more than an inch, therefore a very high pressure is certainly attainable even if an expansion volume corresponding to one inch of barrel length were suddenly added by the fracturing case.
>a design that does not address the possibility of case rupture any other way than blowing up in the shooters face
>not the guns fault
End yourself Serbu, you incompetent fool.
It's a design with no potential for case rupture unless the action itself fails.
The amount of force required for the action to fail means there is no safe way to control it.
A case rupture can simply be a fault of the brass. If the ruptured gasses were allowed to vent, LIKE IN ALMOST ANY OTHER RIFLE, the gun would NOT catastrophically explode.
Most firearms not only do not explode when the case ruptures, they also have a way to direct the expanding gases away from the shooter safely. This Serbu design transitions into a fricking pipe bomb if the case ruptures.
anon a normal case rupture would not have grenaded the gun like the tampered round did
Force is pressure * area. Now ponder this, which has more area, and therefore more force exerted, the butt of the .50 BMG case or the area of the cap in this gun design? The case rupture allowed the pressure to leak into the cavity behind the cartridge and overcame the strength of the thread easily blowing up the gun.
this, I remember arguing this point a long time ago
>overcame the strength of the thread easily blowing up the gun.
How much psi does it take to rip those threads?
300% of the intended pressure of a standard .50 BMG cartridge. It's kinda bizarre how the guy literally tests the gun until it fails and the only way it fails at all is when it's deliberately grenaded.
Yeah and he noted that the threads became stuck and had to get a pipe wrench to open it after a few shots. Also note that when he deliberately exploded the gun, the metal ears behind the breach did not shear off. I think he said it was 200,000psi? Whatever he shot in the first video was way more powerful.
> Also note that when he deliberately exploded the gun, the metal ears behind the breach did not shear off. I think he said it was 200,000psi? Whatever he shot in the first video was way more powerful.
What in Gods name can you put in brass that makes 200,000? Isn’t that straight up dynamite? I’m really asking. It seems like someone wanted to commit murder.
Smokeless has no problems reaching that. Even BP can easily hit the 160kpsi+ level.
Fast burning pistol powder. Not scared of a little recoil are you?
>Force is pressure * area. Now ponder this, which has more area, and therefore more force exerted,
That’s only true if the pressure remains constant. If you move from a smaller area to a larger area the pressure will drop. You know, the whole “square inch” part of psi.
Volume not area, but the gist of it is correct.
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>fires the gun with the barrel in fricking concrete
>breach is fine
Yes indeed in that video the brass case held and did not pressurize the cavity. Besides, due to how pressure curves work on guns if the breech can handle the start of firing it can usually handle a plugged barrel in which case it is the barrel that blows. This is because the highest pressures are at the start.
Case ruptures happen to unsupported areas of the brass like the extractor cut. There is no such place in the Serbu design. The brass is entirely supported and has no way to rupture until the action itself fails.
Anon I can’t even. Maybe just don’t buy a serbu?
It wasn’t even that. It was something that was 3x the normal pressure. Normal AP wouldn’t do that at all.
With rimless cartridges like the .50 cal the rim area is always exposed, there is no need to cut away a part of the chamber like there is with rimmed rounds. Go look into the chamber of your AR, yo you see an extractor cut?
Take a look at a bolt face sometime.
One of the most noticeable signs you've exceeded pressures is when you need to buy a new extractor.
Indeed, a case rupture goes hand in hand with overpressure rounds. And yet with an AR your life will probably not be at risk even if a case were to rupture, and that is because the gun was designed by someone at least passingly intelligent.
Once again though.
A case can only rupture if it is unsupported somewhere. Otherwise the chamber and bolt face provide support and keep it intact.
With the Serbu design the case is 100% supported. There is no place for the brass to flow and no way for a case to rupture UNTIL AFTER the action has already failed.
That is simply not true. The rimmed section of the round is sticking out of the chamber like in any other chamber design. This section is not supported radially. The chamber cap is a flat wall.
Modern rounds tend to not rupture because of high production quality. Simple as that. That is also the reason why such a safety feature was overlooked.
That's incorrect though, the volume is tiny.
>Modern rounds tend to not rupture because of high production quality.
But lots of .50 BMG that's available is military surplus, and the RN-50 manual even states that the gun should be able to handle it. If you're arguing that it can't, and that the reason these guns don't explode more often is because of modern ammo, we should still be seeing multiple reports of RN-50s exploding everywhere from people shooting surplus ammo through it, and we're not. So which is it?
When was the last time you've had or seen a military surplus cartridge rupture? It simply does not happen nowadays, except when it does...
Again, which is it?
Either people are only shooting modern ammo through them, which isn't likely, or surplus ammo is, the overwhelming majority of the time, just fine to shoot and events like the one that happened to KB are so incredibly rare and unheard of that no one would have expected the gun to fail like it did.
Nothing bad ever happens, until it does...
I've heard of people winning lotteries though I've never seen it happen myself...
>still avoiding the question
No modern or surplus ammo is going to be loaded as hot as the one that KB used, that’s why this kind of thing has never been reported since with this particular gun. He had to have a round INTENTIONALLY loaded super hot to get the same result. If you buy non-factory or hand loaded ammo that you yourself did not load, you are taking a risk. You have no right to complain or blame the gun when something goes wrong and you get seriously injured because of it.
>the volume is tiny.
... it can't be, otherwise the unsupported case area is tiny.
You actually have no idea what you are talking about. Your theory is not internally consistent and cannot be correct. Either there is volume for the case to move into and rupture, or there is no volume for the case wall to move into and it is supported.
The unsupported case area is 6mm in length, this means a 6mm thick wide disk with not a lot of volume for gas to expand into, equivalent to and inch or so of .50 cal barrel length. Do you think the pressure drops significantly in the chamber after the bullet has traveled an inch? (hint: it does not)
>Do you think the pressure drops significantly in the chamber after the bullet has traveled an inch?
When does pressure reach a level where that area would rupture, moron?
When it has occupied the enclosed space behind the case and is pushing against the huge surface area of the cap with the maximum chamber pressure of the cartridge.
>avoids the pressure question.
We have him boys. This dipshit can't tell you what pressure is required to rupture the case in that area because if he answered that then one of the following would have to be true:
1)the RN50 would fail with every shot, which would be weird because there are hundreds of unexploded RN50s running around
2) the round was overpressure, which is what everyone else is saying so he doesn't get to be a specially moronic little boy on his own.
>when does max pressure actually occur?
Luckily I'm not a brainless ballistlet like you, the pressure doesn't peak for over a millisecond after ignition in .50BMG and the bullet is well away from the case.
Now what happens to peak pressure when we add a huge void like your theory dictates? (Effectively change seating depth to simulate)
A change in seating depth by one inch (what you said the equivalent volume of barrel is) drops the pressure from 49000PSI (235 grains of 24n41 under a 750 grain Amax)
To 32000 PSI at 1.73 milliseconds. And would lead to obvious gas venting in the shooters face.
Your theory is garbage. It's totally unworkable and describes not a single behavior of the real life system.
The round was overcharged. Probably some Bubba boomer who thought 250 grains of H110 would really put the wallop on those SLAP rounds.
It's not a change in seating depth since rupture happens AFTER big bad pressure happens. A case rupture can happen for a large number of reasons, one of them being some degree of over pressure. Were the gun designed properly these ruptures wouldn't automatically be a lethat threat.
So what pressure does that region of the case rupture at? Go do the math. You are only speculating when the answers are easily calculated.
Why are you so certain that the case was not somehow damaged and ruptured because of that? It was Bubbas pissing hot SLAP reloads after all...
Why can't you do the math? It's really simple.
For the math I would need at least approximate dimensions of all the components here like can inside face diameter and the pressures like designed ordinary pressure, proof pressure, this hypothetical overpressure scenario etc. we are talking about. Could you provide them for me and I'll do the math for you?
That’s an awful lot of cope for someone who has been so adamant that a ruptured case caused all of this in an “unsafe design”
Just do the math anon. You’re the one claiming to be a physics and materials expert
I'll gladly use my HS physics knowledge to do so, tell me the diameter of the cap on the serbu gun.
>Modern rounds tend to not rupture because of high production quality. Simple as that. That is also the reason why such a safety feature was overlooked
That didn’t address his point. If the design is so weak and shitty why is this the only example we have of it happening?
Because nobody except rich guntubers can afford to shoot 50bmg and rich guntubers can afford better than pipe guns.
That’s not true. I know 2 people with .50s that aren’t rich. A basic youtube search will show you tons of people who aren’t guntubers with .50s
Because it is something that happens so rarely.
Because people don’t shoot rounds at 2-3x normal pressures. Address the original question. If the Serbu design is so unsafe why are there not other accounts of it failing so badly?
Because a case rupture is such a rare occurrence that it simply had never happened before.
Prove it was a case rupture.
Considering KB shot highly overpressured rounds later, ones so hot he had to use vice grips to get the cap off and the round out, and those DIDNT rupture, what’s your evidence for a case rupture?
Prove that it was an overpressure round.
As far as I am concerned both are possible, see:
Here’s your proof. Overpressured round, same outcome.
The case rupture is baseless speculation. Where would it rupture that leaks gas into the cap?
An overpressure round exploding a gun is not evidence. It is self evident that that would happen, and that it would happen to any gun shooting such over pressure round.
No idea where the case could have ruptured, I'd have to see the original case to figure that out.
>No idea where the case could have ruptured,
So you have no evidence of a case rupture
You'd think that with how badly designed and unsafe the gun is that we'd have dozens of other reports of people experiencing similar failures and probably even a few resulting deaths. Weird that there haven't been any of those besides the one.
these things look like shit you take to the range once to "feel 50cal" and proceed to never use again because you realize it sucks or you want a nice rifle instead, a real shelf queen
at the same time, I went looking for other anecdotes and examples of failure and there weren't any despite the first showings of this rifle being in 2017
it's probably a pretty safe gun
I've fired .308 out of a 7.7 Arisaka.
Case ruptures were a larger issue in the form of shitty brass not having enough ductility to expand and contract without splitting.
That is why a Mauser has a vent hole. To make up for poor material science in case manufacturing.
It is not designed to handle vastly overpressure ammo. That was not the intent or aim. That will not save you if you drop a spiked >100k PSI cartridge into a Kar98k and pull the trigger. The bolt lugs will shear off and you will get a bolt in the eye socket.
Indeed, you do not need super high pressure for case rupture, shitty brass is sufficient. And that is exactly why the Serbu design is very inadequate, no super high pressure needed to grenade the gun, shitty brass is sufficient.
case ruptures do not grenade guns
That is because with every single other gun design out there the gases from a ruptured case have some place to vent to.
Tell that to the Barrett KB blew up into ribbons the exact same way.
That was not a case rupture but a significantly over pressure round.
>but a significantly over pressure round.
No….you don’t say
Do most case ruptures go up to 160,000 PSI? If a case that WASN'T moronicly hot ruptured, it probably wouldn't have been nearly as severe.
>said guntuber now bases his entire channel around having guns explode
This video explains the issue with case rupture quite well for those of you that skipped your physics classes in HS (like Serbu).
(vent holes mentioned at 5:15)
I actual did the math in one of the original threads and the additional volume revealed by the proposed venting also reduces the pressure below the reasonable threshold for thread failure on the cap.
What if instead of one thread, you have two. Thread it like a cap as it is now, but also on the inside. I'm phone posting, so forgive the shitty diagram.
..<>......<>... The receiver
(>...<=>...<) The cap.
looks like goatse with eyes shopped on
So what you are saying is that the case is supported and only a 2d ring of interface between the breech cap and breech exist.
So we are back to:
There is no unsupported case and you have no idea what you are talking about.
How are you this moronic? The rim area on a rimless case type is fricking CONCAVE, you cannot support it, it is not MEANT to be supported, how else would you extract it?
The b***hing about this gun sounds a lot like boomer Glocknade nonsense
>mfw
BTW properly engineered designs of any kind should fail gracefully AKA graceful degradation AKA fault tolerance.
I'll use a hot rodding example since many k-tards have cars and trucks. In ancient times cast iron flywheels could explode at high RPMs. Early countermeasures still in use include steel flywheels far less likely to fail but still quite capable of cutting off driver feet and leg bits when they let go.
The eventual solution is the steel scatter shield. It anticipates failure by being designed and tested to contain flywheel explosions. Transmission blankets are similarly used to contain exploding gearboxes.
Why scatter shields and trans blankets are needed in competition etc:
Proper escalator design's failure mode is to become steps vs. bug design where they devour passengers. Automatically feathering propellers reduce drag on engine failure instead of becoming surprise control surfaces.
Why do non-technical people have opinions on shit they do not understand?
"Me like boomy thing. It no matter how boomy thing fail if over-pressured because duh shiny" reflects zero understanding of quality design.
ate
>quality design
>gets dismembered by Bubba's pissing hot SLAP in his barret
But Scott exploded a bunch of guns in the same way later and they all would have severely maimed him. Are they all also unsafe designs?
According to /k/? Most likely.
>gun explodes, almost kills a man
>put out a video saying you don't really know why it happened
>say the ammo looks real and the gun must be safe cause this is the only time it's blown up
>take 15 months to put out an actual explanation
Gee I wonder why those rumors spread so far. It wasn't helped by him speculating so much then going quiet for over a year. It wasn't a fricking plane accident maybe he shouldn't have put it on the side burner if he actually cared about the public image. There's a reason any company with sense would put out a report as soon as possible after such a major incident.
Nobody thinks the gun was the fault, just that when the gun failed it failed in a possibly fatal way, the only way the prrssire could escape was directly back into the shooters face.
Also the idea of threads as a locling mechanism in a high pressure chamber is fricking moronic, they'll eventually fail
>Nobody thinks the gun was the fault
Well some people do. But they are idiots. Like the one in this thread
>guns should fail gracefully north of 160k PSI
Holy shit
You cannot expect a gun to withstand that pressure. It’s not safe and will never be safe. You should never ever load ammunition that hot. If someone loads ammo that hot they are trying to murder you.
hey guys I think muzzleloaders are unsafe and need to be redesigned so they won't explode in your face if you load them with smokeless powder
Yeah what the frick were the idiots thinking when they designed those
>buy car that scored high in crash safety
>someone plants a bomb in your car that almost kills you
>call the car unsafe because it couldn’t withstand a fricking explosion going off in it
This is what you morons sound like
>not driving in a car that's literally bombproof
ngmi
I don't really understand the purpose of buying a "budget" .50bmg rifle. Shooting rifles in that caliber is kind of a rich man's game, if you can't afford a few thousand dollars for a good rifle you probably aren't prepared to buy all of the expensive ammo and/or reloading components. A lot of ranges won't even let you shoot it, you might need to either have a lot of property, know someone who does or look around for a range or public land where it's okay to use it.
Even this piece of shit pipe gun is sold for $1600. For just a little over $2000 you can get a gun with an actual action. For about $3000 you can go full moron and get a Barret. So this Bubba home depot shit seems really goofy.
plenty of people have guns they shoot very rarely.
All the more reason to buy a gun that is actually cool and not made of plumbing components. You're not buying much ammo for it, so you can afford to spend more on the gun, right?
>For just a little over $2000 you can get a gun with an actual action. For about $3000 you can go full moron and get a Barret. So this Bubba home depot shit seems really goofy.
You’re off by about a $1000. A single shot Barrett is closer to $4k and other single shots are $3k. The appeal of Serbu is you can get the rifle and a good scope for the price of just a rifle. Or buy 600-1000 or so rounds for that $2-3k you saved which is a lifetime supply of .50 BMG. You can argue if that’s the “right” choice or not but there’s an appeal.
>people STILL think the gun was at fault
Well duh, they are know-nothing contrarians with absolutely no knowledge of internal ballistics.
Ankle biters gonna shitfling.
The fact that it exploded back at him.
I had a glockenade in my hand, and it left no injuries, it glockenaded up.
Now sure fiddy is by several orders of magnitude bigger than a .40sw.
But the fun should've still had a "fuse", intentionally left weak spot on top where it will blown in overpressure to minimize amount of shrapnel going back to shooter.
But hey that's what you can expect buying guns from a meme company.
On the other hand bfg-50 is the best semi auto 50 on the market, no idea of where that one would blow up, but it functionality BTFOs any available competition.
I don't get it the only way for bolt thrust to be an issue with a ruptured case is if the ass end of the cartridge was completely unsupported. in which case the fix would be to have it supported inside the cap, like any number of counterbored bolt heads.
Cartridge cases are supported by a straight abutment and the chamber. Counterboring of the abutment serves no purpose. a fourth of an inch of the rim is left exposed purposefully by design.
i only need to look at that piece of shit to know it's not safe just like i'd look at any home made rifle bubba made
Tbh though a rifle chambered in something as big as a 50BMG, that has the potential to kill you in the event of a catastrophic malfunction, should probably be rated to withstand the highest theoretical chamber pressure possible, so that the thing never blows up, no matter what.
The Serbu will do that just fine, a .50 BMG loaded even way above spec will not blow it up, that is AS LONG AS the cartridge does not rupture.
And you have no evidence of overpressure.
>you have no evidence of overpressure
Yes we do, you’re just refusing to acknowledge it.
A video about a gun blowing up from an overpressure round is not evidence. Nobody is saying that that is anything special. You put 190K PSI in a gun and it WILL blow up, that is not proof, and that is nothing new.
Go buy a Serbu, buy some .50 BMG brass, weaken them in a way that makes them more susceptible to case rupture, load them to factory standards, and test them to see what happens.
We already have a video showing what happens when an overpressure round goes off in a Serbu, and it’s nearly a 1/1 match of what happened in the original video. If a case rupture from a standard round produces similar results, then you have a leg to stand on. Right now, you don’t.
So recreating the event doesn’t mean anything? Cool. Got it.
For like the 3rd time, why do you think it’s a case rupture? Just answer that. How is it any more likely than an overpressured round?
An overpressure round of this pressure would require a completely different powder rhan the other SLAP round which functioned just fine. Therefore I think that the case just happened to be weak and rupture for some reason instead of the loader switching up the powder part way through a batch.
The other rounds didn't function "just fine". There are no signs of a weak point rupture in the actual case, which you can look at yourself. The exact same batch of ammo blew up two other guns in testing, with no signs of rupturing at weak points -- they all blew through the strongest part of the cartridge, with immense force.
Watch the actual videos before shooting off your ignorant frickpipe.
May I see them?
yeah, they're up on YouTube, go look. It's a decent afternoon if you're into firearms engineering.
>ar explodes
>it explodes to the fricking side instead of the back because the designer wasn't moronic
>much lower chance of harming the shooter than the serbu flinging shit backward
There's no need to sell other gun designers on the idea since everyone else is already doing it.
A 5.56 overpressure detonation is also going to be vastly smaller and less powerful than a .50 BMG overpressure.
>mogs your serbu poverty-50
Doesn't .50 bmg have a reputation for case rupturing if only because M2 headspacing is a b***h. Most guns aren't made with fail-safe in mind the serbu problem is just a happenstance consequence of making a .50 bmg rifle as cheaply as you can resulting in no steel around the tube pipe action to catch a failure. also there's probably a reason that every other screw-breech gun breech plug has external threads the internally threaded cap design fitting around the entire breech end probably puts more torque or whatever on it due to the added distance. The threads are also relatively shallow even considering scale artillery screw breaches are so thick they're basically a series of locking lugs. None of this is enough to be an inherently unsafe design just not optimal and another result of cost cutting. It's an in spec design but equivalent of shooting a pot metal surplus revolver it probably won't blow up but there's less margin for safety especially if you put weird ammo in it.
>gun should be built to fail in a safer way
This argument is moronic when you consider the level of safety this gun was built to and what caused it to fail.
The round used to blow it up was so overpressure, it almost seems malicious in its construction. With anything but the fastest burning powders on the market, you have to fill the entire case to the brim, use a rod to pack that powder in, then pour more powder into the empty space before seating the bullet. It seems intentional, like the spiked ammo from Vietnam.
Under nearly any other condition, the rifle could eat a Barrett-killing load as if it was normal pressure. This is including the less dumb but still moronic idea of filling it 100% with a fast burning rifle powder like H4198 or possibly even H110. The design is physically incapable of blowing up like how it did unless someone was trying to fricking kill you with the ammo like whoever sold KB those SLAP rounds.
Wasn't the story with the rounds that it was stored improperly for a very long period of time? Like, 20 year old ammo that wasn't sealed or in stable conditions? Sometimes that can cause overpressure. But to that extent? I don't know.
Most improperly stored ammo loses volatility; especially .50 BMG which uses frickhuge grains of powder that take way longer to degrade.
Yeah, but I understand particular kinds of powder can make them more volatile sometimes. The quickest example I can think of is Turkish 8mm mauser ammo. Forgotten weapons did a video on it showing that the old turkish 8mm destroys guns and it's worth the extra money to buy something else and not destroy your machine gun or hurt yourself.
The problem is that it is too strong. Pressure cookers blow at 3bar so they don't ever reach 30bar before exploding. Stronger isn't safer. The fact it can eat Barrett killing loads isn't a good thing its a fricking problem.
>Pressure cookers blow at 3bar so they don't ever reach 30bar before exploding.
Because pressure cookers are capable of reaching that in a wide variety of natural situations where the RN-50 has exactly one way of getting there that would require failure at several points on the shooter's part.
>The fact it can eat Barrett killing loads isn't a good thing its a fricking problem.
Only if you're being stupid. Barrett eats a bad round and you're out $10k with possible injuries. RN-50 eats a bad round and you have a lot of trouble extracting it while hopefully saying "maybe there's something wrong with this stuff I should stop".
>RN-50 eats a bad round and you have a lot of trouble extracting it while hopefully saying "maybe there's something wrong with this stuff I should stop".
You must have watched a different video?
Yeah, I ALSO watched the follow-up where he had to hammer out every single one of the remaining rounds on extraction. I bet he had the same trouble when he was shooting the first video and omitted that because he didn't want to seem moronic. It's either that or the first few he shot were completely fine and he somehow managed to ONLY shoot the properly made ones first.
I think even in the original video he acknowledges that the recoil and sound and muzzle blast is weird and inconsistent between rounds. The first two might have just been notably hot and then the killer happened to be pressure spiked to the moon. I don't know how the difference would be that big if they were from the same batch.
Instead of it being intentional, how about it was just a case rupture that explodes the gun because of the garbage design?
In the follow up video where Scott shoots the remaining ammo, he has to pry and hammer every spent casing from the chamber.
I bet this happened with every round before the accident too and he should just have stopped shooting these SLAP rounds due to obvious inconsistencies.
Never shoot mystery meat ammo should be common sense.
God, can you just fricking shut up about the stupid fricking threads already?
gun company engeneers a cheap 50 bmg to shoot for fun and testing, capable of shooting ammo far above normal preassures but barely any safety features because nobody would be moronic enough to make a 50 bmg loaded to infinity or a 50 bmg squib
>guy buys specific 50 bmg cartrige that has fake replicas of it made by Bubba " the pissin hot loads" Fuddberg.
>The sketchy load was loaded over safe preassures, into infinity and beyond.
> gun pipebombs, shears off any and all metal in its path and nearly kills the shooter
>internet declares it a gun fault.
No it is the moron making the cartrige that is at fault
How would you build a 50 bmg safety mechanism,
anything you add potentionally adds more shrapnel with that cartrige depending on the moron loading the 50 bmg. Unless you have 15 pounds of metal shit bolted to the back. And the front with an aramid layer around it to catch any shattering pieces of the gun
Ventholes would have reduced the force,
in kentuckys case it wouldnt have made much difference , that metal cap busted through the metal ears, shattered his safety glasses and broke his face in multiple places as well as sent the ears flying into his neck and down to his chest.
For 556, 308, 30 06 it is easy. Their maximum force is fairly limited compared to a fiddy.
Even semiautomatics are not fullproof against complete and utter human moronation:
ian "forgotten weapon" mcollum took some 556 casing shrapnel to the chest when his gun blew up because the reloaders did not clean the pistol powder out of the machinery. For a fiddy it would have been even worse
>Ventholes would have reduced the force
Yes, as it should be
why would you ever get this piece of shit over a shtf50 if you're poor?
so how would /k/ build the perfect. 50 bmg rifle to shoot bubba's pissin hot .50 BMG rounds? An Arisaka but scaled up to .50 BMG?
falling block.
Straight blowback. Locking actions, by definition, completely resist the movement based on the mechanical strength of components. Mechanical strength can fail, but mass does not fail. Ever heard of an Oerlikon 20mm blow up? Neither have I.
2 foot thick barrel, 200lb locking cap, hole drilled through the barrel into the chamber with an overpressure valve designed to blow out at slightly over spec pressures
Truly the best engineers design the safest guns.