Vulcan 50 cal EXPLODED - Bolt lodged in guys neck! PICS

[Ring]

news flash... Vulcan/Hesse/Blackthorne suck....


go read...
PSA : At Range today LOUD BOOM - Vulcan 50 cal EXPLODED - Bolt lodged in guys neck! PICS - Page 1 - AR15.COM

 

[ldunnmobile]

I guess I better dump all my Vulcan stock...

 

[mike in pa]

That's what happens when someone wants the cheapest 50 BMG possible.

 

[demolitionman]

How many times has that company changes names? I read awful awful things about them when building my first AR 15.

 

[Apache659]

Vulcan/Hesse/Blackthorne are the the sludge at the bottom of the barrel. We can only hope this incident is the one that finally drives them into oblivion once and for all ...

 

[KYS]

He should sue the shit out of them! Factory ammo with a factory gun.... it should not result in this incident.

 

[redneckbmxer24]

That's what happens when someone wants the cheapest 50 BMG possible.

You can't put a price tag on your life. Unfortunately they'll probably settle for $50k and Vulcan will keep selling their trash.

 

[AutoEssentials]

That sucks big time. I'm glad that most gun companies are responsible enough not to put out crap like that. Vulcan should be accountable for the bill on this one.

 

[ORD]

Vulcan/Hesse/Blackthorne are the the sludge at the bottom of the barrel. We can only hope this incident is the one that finally drives them into oblivion once and for all ...

+1 ON THE ABOVE!!

".50BMG" and "CHEAP" are NOT words that should be mixed. Hope to hell the shooter will make it through this...unconfirmed reports toward the end of the thread suggest he'll be "ok" but nothing definitive.

 

[demolitionman]

Is Model1Sales part of this Vulcan group?

 

[Masked]

Heard through the grape-vine (Before reading the thread on ARfcom) that Vulcan is on the verge of re-naming...Again. (Verified on ARfcom)

Wonder how many times you can change your name before it's associated with garbage...

 

[redneckbmxer24]

I read where his arm was severed as well. If this is true it will probably result in multiple surgeries and rehab. He'll get at least a couple hundred K, unfortunately probably still not enough to shut Vulcan down. A million bucks would probably do some harm to them though.

 

[carnageangel]

Do you know which style it was. Three lug or the older interrupted something or the other? Bought one of these long ago and had no issues, heard all the horror stories after the purchase and about 200+ rounds with the added pressure of a suppressor. I got a good one I guess but don't shoot her much anymore. I'd really like to know which type it was, threaded interrupted thingy was a pipe bomb from what I read!?

 

[Temp9]

Hope the guy is okay.... Companies like this shouldn't be in business.

Did anyone notice Vulcan's website title? "Vulcan Group Inc. [The Best-Built Firearms in the World!]"

 

[Dogtown]

That's what happens when someone wants the cheapest 50 BMG possible.

Bingo! The first rule of designing a .50BMG rifle: figure out how to prevent out of battery detonations.

 

[2ndamendfan]

Is Model1Sales part of this Vulcan group?

Someone else can confirm but I don't believe so. I am not even sure Model1sales makes one piece of a gun, really I think they are just assemblers.

 

[ORD]

M1S and Vulcan have NO AFFILIATIONS that I am aware of...completely separate companies with no commonality whatsoever.

 

[The_FNG]

Any pics of the rifle?

Edit to add, i hope he's doing ok.

 

[scudzuki]

Nothing wrong with Model 1 Sales.

Joe

 

[Apache659]

I've known guys (machinist) who built Grizzly .50s in their garages that I'd trust shooting over anything done by Vulcan/Hesse ...

 

[lonegunman762x51]

Years ago, I heard Vulcan/Hesse crap products referred to as "Fucktard equipment" and could not agree more. No idea how or why their crap products survive in the world, but they keep moving about killing or injuring whomever has the misfortune of buying them.

I would not trust the people who own that company to make sandwichs,,,,,,if you own any model of their junk you are one trigger pull from the hospital.

 

[pawprint2]

Is "Vulcan" or what ever name they are using, associated with Tactilite (zel mfg)? I read where Tactilite had a recall on their 50bmg uppers as they could be fired
in an out of battery condition.

 

[00boraslow]

That is scary. I own a Barrett M82A1 and some people are afraid to shoot it because its a 50bmg.

 

[Apache659]

That is scary. I own a Barrett M82A1 and some people are afraid to shoot it because its a 50bmg.

I've shot my buddy's Barrett a bit and have no worries of ever being injured. It's not even a comparison of apples and oranges, more like apples to steaming cow chit ...

 

[pawprint2]

Barrett builds a Mil-Spec rifle, "nuff said".

 

[rcnpthfndr]

late 90s Hesse made crappy Fal receivers that were coming apart when fired for a while you couldn't give them away. amazing how they are able to survive as a company

 

[Daveworkslocal]

Is "Vulcan" or what ever name they are using, associated with Tactilite (zel mfg)? I read where Tactilite had a recall on their 50bmg uppers as they could be fired
in an out of battery condition.

I have a friend that was almost killed by that rifle. Fired at an estimated 15 percent bolt lock.

 

[stlswm]

If you want a 2000 yard target rifle I would spend 1000 dollars on Savage 110 in 338 Lapua. Then with a Super Sniper you would be in business. They could charge Vulcan with criminal negliegence as well. I just can wait to run out and get one of their composite AR receivers. I gaurentee when someone investigates this, they might find excessive headspacing issues. Improper metalurgy or a piss poor design that finite structural analysis would reveal. If you blew up a receiver with to much gunpowder you would know the ultimate strength and what is safe. Defective ammo could cause this to, from world war II.

 

[bsnow]

Vulcan Arms .50 cal explosion on the range Video

here is the video as it happened. LiveLeak.com - .50 Cal Blows Up and Injures Shooter
wait for it ..... brutal.
hopefully he made a few hundred K and learned a lesson in expenditure versus quality.