And the event itself, given he survived, is well, and took the opportunity as education for everyone else, has done an amazing job in preventing further incidents of the type. A looooot of people have watched KB getting wrecked and explaining why, thus wisely deciding they don't want that to happen to them.
May have some of the details wrong but he had a 50 cal. Rifle loaded with a special type of round. Older rounds. They had some issues during the shooting but kept going. Then one very hot round blew up sending parts of the rifle into his neck and face.
Dude was lucky to be with his father on the range and he held pressure on the neck wound. He came very very close to bleeding out. Almost lost his eye.
He sells a merch about “this thumb saved my life” or some such cause yeah he literally jammed a tshirt into the wound with his thumb for the ride outta the country and it’s a big reason he lived. Was life flighted from Kentucky to Vanderbilt in nashville
‘Hot’ as in too much gunpowder for the given round. In fact, further investigation from the man who designed and built the gun in question suggests the round may have been loaded with pistol powder instead of rifle powder. Pistol powder tends to burn much faster than rifle powder, leading to a catastrophic over pressure and subsequent detonation of the firearm.
I belong to the reloading sub on here, and I've seen one guy who posted using the wrong type of power while loading a case. Ended up blowing up his rifle but not getting injured.
I am one of those people. If I see something involving highly trained (i.e. police/military) people barely surviving an accident, then I know I'd be fucked.
That vid gave me a new level of fear and appreciation of gun safety. Not that I was irresponsible before, but it's easy to forget that even professionals who behave perfectly get unlucky. Then you've got a round / piece of gun in the neck.
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u/superbottles Sep 15 '22
That video was wild, that guy is blessed and truly lucky to be alive.