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Thread: Browning Citori blew up!

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    Browning Citori blew up!

    I was at the gun club up the road from my father in laws house shooting 5 stand. In the lodge was a Browning Citori sitting on the counter in pieces....and I do mean pieces.

    Strange thing about this is the gun blew at the receiver, sending sharp shrapnel everywhere. The fore end broke to pieces. The stock cracked all the way through. I've seen my fair share of blown up shotguns, but never at the receiver. That's extremely rare.

    The rib is peeled back and there is no way you can straighten it by hand.

    Take a look at the window frame where pieces of the receiver hit. There is no doubt in my mind that had this hit the face or chest, it would have been fatal. The guy was not injured.

    He was shooting reloads (old Remington Peters hulls). This was NOT a squib or stuck wad as the barrel is not split. It's possible that a wad may have got stuck in the forcing cone, but I doubt it.

    Anyway, it's a miracle the guy is fine.


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    Glad I wasn't behind that. Glad the gent is ok.

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    Looks like a serious double charge there a friend did the same thing with a O/U Winchester very similar in nature pictures.

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    Holy cow, a shotgun, of all the weapons...looks like there was C4 in there.
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    That barrel had to be plugged solid. Maybe a 20 ga shell dropped in first? There was nowhere for that charge to go, thus the shrapnel, and it wasn't just a wad. Wow
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hogtamer View Post
    That barrel had to be plugged solid. Maybe a 20 ga shell dropped in first? There was nowhere for that charge to go, thus the shrapnel, and it wasn't just a wad. Wow
    My thoughts exactly.

    Notice how the mono block failed but the barrel just in front of the mono block has a clean break. I bet if you looked downrange you would find a severally damaged 20 gauge shell that exited the end of the barrel.
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    Does the base of the old Remington Peters hulls have a solid plastic base or paper?
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    There is a wrecked Model 870 hanging on the wall of my club with similar damage; receiver bulged and barrel peeled back over the chamber. "Bad reloads" were blamed, but I highly suspect it was a 20 gauge shell stuck in the forcing cone. Every now and then I'll find a red 20 gauge hull on the ground at the skeet range, as somebody shoots some very old ammo.

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    If it was a barrel obstruction, it had to be right in front of the chamber or if it was up the barrel, the bulge would be prominent. I don't think a double charge would do this and a double charge would fill the case until it wouldn't crimp. Possibly the base wad was gone, but that would have probably not crimped right. I don't know what would happen if there was no base wad, but that looks to be where the explosion took place. I don't know if the base wad is molded into the case like a AA, or if it has a plastic insert base wad. I doubt it was a barrel obstruction or an over charge and if that hull used a separate base wad, I would think that is the most likely scenario.

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    Just got a call from the owner. He said Browning suspects a loose base was from reloads for lodged in the forcing cone. Apparently, this is the #1 reason shotguns fail at the receiver.


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    That makes you stop and think. Very lucky that no one was seriously hurt. Had a guy blow up his 1100 beside me using his special shoot off load but it wasn't that severe. He got some gas burns and some light shrapnel and his receiver was ruined but he got off very lucky.

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    Wow. That's an expensive kaboom. Glad he's okay!!!!!
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    Wow.. If a loose bad wad did that, pressure must have spiked with not being able to push the train thru the tunnel... Ouch

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    look at the brass right at the front of the chamber where the barrel went.

    I remember Remington coming around back in the day inserting their new base wads in the barrel and then shooting them out with a shell behind them.

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    With that brass ring.. Think I was a 20 up there making a log jam?

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    My first thought was a 12 behind a 20.

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    Hard to tell from picture, but I believe that is not "brass" from a case head but you are seeing the solder joint from the mono block. Also where is the plastic case? If there was a blockage there would be pieces of the case left in the chamber. No, this was a serious high vel. detonation. Remington target hulls are compression formed, no base wad to shoot loose. They haven't used a target hull with a separate base wad since the 60's when the RXP hull replaced their "target hull".

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    Double powder load! It is virtually impossible to blow a shotgun chamber with a "normal" obstruction - some has even survived the notorious 12 gauge on top of a 20 gauge mistake.
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    Did the shooter hit the pidgeon?

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