[dark1]

i was at the range today shooting my stag mod1 after firing about 80 rnds i was in the middle of a rapped fire string at 200 mtrs and BOOM the upper receiver blewup.
the hole reserve was totaled the bolt cracked barrel extension split in 3 places. i am OK just some pouter burns on my hand and some blood blisters on my thumb and it is bused bad.

i was shooting S&B SS109 ammo ... good stuff never had any probs with them so not sure what happened ither a hot load or ... a slow burn ???
any one elts ever have a stag blowup?? if so what did stag say it was ?
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i will have pix of the gun as soon as my dealer sends me the ones he took

 

[dark1]

yah it seemed to be ok i was in the zone but i did not notice anything out of the ordinary

i will post the report from stag when they send it tome they sed they will send me a new gun with the same SN

 

[dark1]

Ok lets work thru this as it takes a tremendous amount of pressure to blow apart a STAG. You said you were firing a at a fast rate of fire correct? So you didn't have a failure to feed or eject and manual chambered another round and then it blew correct? yah i was rnd #7 out of a 10 round string all loaded by the action

A load hot enough to blow frag a non-defective barrel extension is normally in excess of 100 PSI.

Normally stuff like this is from a squib load and chambering another round and setting it off whihc creates about 120-150K PSI and hopefully the case or bolt is all that blows.

How many rounds do you have thru this gun, barrel, bolt? about 500 i just gut the gun in oct when i gut home from iraq

How much of this current lot of ammo have you shoot? only about 80 rnds the first batch of ammo was some wolf 68gr i used to break it in

Anyone else have some of the same lot of ammo you know you can check with? i called S&B they say they have no reports of and probs they asked fore photos of all the ammo i shot today my gunsmith is doing this atm with a wright up , witch i will post when i get it from him

Where were spent cases ejecting at before this happened? they were all in a small groop at about the 3oclock

Do you have any of the spent cases from this range session? How do thy look? Any pictures you can post of them along with the gun? after i picked up the brass there were slight swipes on them but nothing wears then i see on any ss109 i have shot with the army, i am just learning about ammo/presser and soon and stuff i wish i knew more atm so i could give more info i will have pix of the gun and ammo tomorrow probably do not have a camera

It happens so fast you don't have time to be scared until after the fact when you are counting digits and looking for a mirror to see if you have any frags in you face or parts of it missing. :wink: LOL yup

I am glad you contacted STAG and they are taking are of it make sure to contact SB as well. If the ammo was OK then there almost had to be a really big issue with STAG and it sounds like it was metallurgical. Defective barrel extension ?

 

[dark1]

yah i am just worried now about the rest of the 1k rounds i have from that batch of ammo and the stag 6.8 i am picking up tomorrow i know it was just a fluke but .. can shake you up a little if i had my thumb over like 1/8 of an itch more i would have lost it i know from now on i will be using my front battle grip instead of the mag well even on the bench ofc i will probably be back at the range tomorrow as soon as i pickup the stag 6.8 i am a sucker fore punishment i ges might even bring my Mauser with me tomorrow so the pain in my shoulder will over ride my thumb :lol:

 

[dark1]

o yah thank you all for everything the pix will be up soon and i will post the report from stag once they do there investigation and send it to me
and thank you Tim_W

 

[dark1]

LOL nah i have cleared alot of rooms :lol: :lol: i am axuley thinking on sinning up fore the 6.8 class if i can get a car that can drive that far
would like to get involved in tach shooting more then just in the army also but up here in RI there is no place that dos it just like the longest range here is 200 yards

 

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yah the only weird thing is i have never seen a squib load axially fully cycle the weapon and lode a round usually it dose not cycle the gun and someone hand jams the next rnd ? if it is a squib i am just surprised and inbarest i didn't nodes it i have bin firing ARs fore well over 10 years.
i will let every one know as soon as i get the report back from stag and the pix will be up soon™

 

[dark1]

No not yet i am going to stop by the gun shop tomorrow and remind him he has the gun and all the pix of it atm he is beginning to piss me off he was saposto e mail me them a weak ago