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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhceWZiYPQIn watching this video, I see the kid loads the home made gun and fires it. Then he displays how to unload the barrel.....take it off turn it around and load another shell into the breech and fire the first one out of the muzzle! How does this not blow up? Mergus?
Duckboats, decoys and double barrels...
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Sidelock
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Probably because the barrel is thick enough to contain the increase in pressure. Very cool vid. He needs to make a 32" model and go trap shooting. 
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Much nicer then the 12 gauge I built and fired when I was in the 6th grade. However, as primitive as mine was it had a hammer and trigger mechanism. I used a wood dowel ramrod to unload the empty cartridge.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhceWZiYPQIn watching this video, I see the kid loads the home made gun and fires it. Then he displays how to unload the barrel.....take it off turn it around and load another shell into the breech and fire the first one out of the muzzle! How does this not blow up? Mergus? I doubt if the gun has a firing chamber. It could be that blow-by from around the shell pushes the empty out before the shot load arrives. Steve
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Sidelock
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No worries about heavy trigger pulls!
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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Rockdoc, that was the only theory I could come up with....
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would like to see the expressions on the faces of the old duffers at the trap club with this guy shooting next to them.....would really like it if he beat them....
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Why doesn't it blow?
I think he just needs to keep trying.
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It does not blow up, and it does not blow open even though there is no locking of the breech.
The barrel is chamberless, overbored and that helps keep the pressures relatively low. The bore is about the same diameter as the outside of the shell.
A detailed observations shows the gun recoils as unit, both barrel and shroud tube recoil together. Which kind of casts doubts about the shell in a conventional shotgun delivering a hammer blow to the breech face etc by itself. Such guns, crude as they are, challenge orthodoxy on shotgun action strength.
As to blowing up in time. There are such crude guns that have been used hard for years and have not blown up.
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I wish he were my son. I did stuff like this when I was growing up, but not to this degree. What a great kid. A redneck John Browning.
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