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Spitzers and tubular magazines - Mythbusters

by , Posted to on 12/20/2010 1:13 PM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/16/2001
Location: ND
A comment about pointed bullets exploding tubular magazines on another thread made me think again about this "FACT!"   Yes, for over 50 years  I've read it in gun magazines, reloading data sources and heard it many, many times from many different sources, but years ago I tried to discover a single DOCUMENTED case of this happening in the personal experiences of gunsmiths, hunters, various shooters, emergency room Doctors and Surgeons (who hunt and shoot and should see and hear about casualties if it happened regularly, or even rarely.)  
Despite the ample  numbers of stupid people out there who would be expected to do this sort of thing despite all the warnings,  I have never been able to find a single verifiable case!  Yep, there are a lot of  guys  who 'knew somebody who knew someone else whose seventh cousin heard the propane deliveryman's ex girlfiend's roomate  say her uncle saw it, but I haven't been able to track a case down, not that I'm an expert at tracking rumors, but I keep asking and so far  have failed to find a single case!   I definitely parrot it on in hunter ed classes, though!!  Better safe than sorry!

And yes, I know all about the new Leverevolution" ammo!   But is it necessary or not!?!   Wouldn't be the first time some company developed something in response to a  'fact' that everybody knows to be true, simply to look good and make a buck and fill 'percieved need!'   Happens all the time in my ex -field of work. .... 

I'M NOT SAYING THAT THIS IS B S AND SAFE TO DO, SO FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, DON'T DO IT!  I DEFINITELY WOULDN'T!! 

 Rather than killing the cat with my curiosity,   I e-mailed a "Submit a Myth" suggestion  to Mythbusters on the Discovery channel.
Though they seem to get dozens of suggestions for their show every day, this would be an interesting thing to actually attempt to prove or disprove.  Besides, it would be kind of fun for us FBO posters to watch them try to blow up some Winchesters or Marlins under safe, controlled conditions! 

They could  try tubular magazines filled with various pointed bullets, including the worst possible case - solid military bullets.   And even make a "worse than the worst possible case' by lathe-turning the noses of some solid bullets to be firing pin  size and shape!    If that doesn't make it blow, nothing would! 

Myth proved or busted!?!   Maybe we'll see!   

Once more - DON'T DO THIS!    Even if they bust the myth, I personally still wouldn't do it as even if it goes off only 1 in 29million attempts, I don't want to be that one!
Re: Spitzers and tubular magazines - Mythbusters
by on 12/20/2010 1:55 PM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 11/21/2005
Location: ND
Bobkat aren't the marlin leveraction (307) a plastic pointed tip or not I have never had an interest in them so haven't looked

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Re: Spitzers and tubular magazines - Mythbusters
by on 12/20/2010 2:10 PM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 05/24/2008
Location: Mo
bobkat I have heard it for years and yes I never have hear of a single case of it either. I have own several Winchester 94 and 92's .  Never had the neaver to see if a pointed bullet would set off the round ahead of it.    Had my thumb slip of a cooked 94 in a pickup,not good on the ears or the floor broad. Jumped out the pick-up back window and landed in the box. 
 
Re: Spitzers and tubular magazines - Mythbusters
by on 12/20/2010 4:54 PM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/16/2001
Location: ND
Ouch, mauser!   Bet yolu weren't even wearing hearing protection!  
Yeah, marksman.  The levervelution are soft plastic tipped spitzers.    Most of those tubulatr magazined guns were designed way back when round and flat nosed bullets were the norm, anyway.    Few, if any factory loads for things like 30 - 30's, 47 - 70's  with pointed tips anyway, So its not an accident very likelty to occur even if it does cause an explosion.  .You'd likely have to be a handloder to screw up, and handloaders would know what NOT to do and be unlikley to do it!  Still, I wonder if it really is dangerous.  
 I'd think  any accident waiting to happen like this would have lawyers all over it, and tubular magazined guns would have been recalled long ago.    
Re: Spitzers and tubular magazines - Mythbusters
by on 12/20/2010 9:43 PM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/27/2004
Location: ND
Interesting topic. Those Myth Buster guys have one of the coolest jobs out there imho.
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