C-grunt
Member
I wanted to run this by you guys as my brother in law and I couldn't figure it out.
A week ago my brother in law, we'll call him K. went out into the desert for some plinking. He has an older model 10-22 that his was shooting. We shot for a good hour when all of a sudden he had a kaboom.
The round sounded much louder than normal and a bunch of dark colored smoke came out of the action and through the mag well. K got some slight burns on his off hand fingers. the rifle ejected the casing.
My immediate thought was a squib load but we are both fairly certain the previous round fired as it sounded fine, ejected the shell and Im pretty sure I saw the impact.
One problem we had was that we couldn't find the ejected casing to look at it. K is sending the rifle back to Ruger to have it looked over but there was no visible damage what so ever. The ammo was a mixed bag of factory ammo so its unsure what brand it was.
So my question is, if the previous round fired as normal what else could have caused this?
A week ago my brother in law, we'll call him K. went out into the desert for some plinking. He has an older model 10-22 that his was shooting. We shot for a good hour when all of a sudden he had a kaboom.
The round sounded much louder than normal and a bunch of dark colored smoke came out of the action and through the mag well. K got some slight burns on his off hand fingers. the rifle ejected the casing.
My immediate thought was a squib load but we are both fairly certain the previous round fired as it sounded fine, ejected the shell and Im pretty sure I saw the impact.
One problem we had was that we couldn't find the ejected casing to look at it. K is sending the rifle back to Ruger to have it looked over but there was no visible damage what so ever. The ammo was a mixed bag of factory ammo so its unsure what brand it was.
So my question is, if the previous round fired as normal what else could have caused this?