Could happen with smaller diameter cartridges.This is FAR from a .50 BMG issue, could happen with ANY round
Very good idea to always have someone with you but not practical. As far as phones my S10 android has an emergency button that you press and hold just once locked or not.Although I'm guilty of this myself, you should NEVER shoot alone.
A benchrest shooter that I met at a few shooting clubs appeared one day with a crazy mirror contraption on his rifle and a pirates patch over his eye. He told me that he used a brass rod to tap a stuck case from the chamber and totally forget to remove it before he settled in for the next shot. The gun blew out right into his face. He sustained serious injuries including the loss of his eye. He was ALONE at the club at the time and, according to him, it was noting short of a miracle that he was able to get away from the range and find help.
Helpful tip - with an IPHONE, if you hit the power button 5x in a row, or hold the power button and a volume button at the same time, the phone will dial 911 even if its locked.
So do I, and carry a fist aid kit it in my pickup, because it's generally I am with my pickup. If it's a car accident and nobody around I will stop and give first aid. I will always call it in to 911 unless I feel it has been called in. Large group I won't stop, but I am probable one that has more first aid knowledge under my belt than most. Ran into to many people that didn't know **** from Shinola. Like ButterBean said:Terrible to watch. One rule I also live by no matter where I shoot or who I'm with...I keep a gunshot wound kit in my truck and in my generic range bag. Not a dinky "first aid" kit but serious trauma style treatment kit. It's cheap insurance.
Do you ever shoot factory ammo? Almost all are max loads.I never chase max loads or fire any reloads except my own. Good to see he survived to see another day.
Cue the photos of broken carbon arrows through the bow hand...Back to bow hunting for me
The more I've thought about this, I'm gonna go ahead and say it...Could happen with smaller diameter cartridges.
But as mentioned in an earlier post, higher forces are created with larger diameter cartridges, as force is a product of "pressure" X "area". The larger the area the pressure acts against, the larger the resultant force.
I'm not inclined to fire any rifle containing those forces with a threaded pipe cap... let alone a cartridge the diameter of a 50BMG.
About 45 years ago.Do you ever shoot factory ammo? Almost all are max loads.
About 60 years ago. Beat you Ha,HaAbout 45 years ago.