SCCY CPX-2 blew up this morning in the desert

[brownie]

Yup, standing right next to him when it exploded. Nothing out of the ordinary in way of report,

[Caleb]

Wow, if that was shot right handed.... there would of been blood drawn!

Could that of been a possible squib round stuck in the barrel?

[DrHenley]

That's pretty weird how the barrel could split completely in half and stay relatively straight. The barrel had to be very brittle.

What's scary is that something like this is not usually isolated. Which means this won't be the only one.

Could you tell whether it failed from the front or rear? Most pictures of split barrels I've seen are curled out from the point of failure.

Like these examples:

[DrHenley]

Now that I think about it, Sako had a bad batch of stainless barrels that split apart like that without curling out, especially in cold weather.

[brownie]

Originally Posted by DrHenley

That's pretty weird how the barrel could split completely in half and stay relatively straight. The barrel had to be very brittle.

What's scary is that something like this is not usually isolated. Which means this won't be the only one.

Could you tell whether it failed from the front or rear? Most pictures of split barrels I've seen are curled out from the point of failure.

Like these examples:

Our best guess was that it started at the breech.

[Riverpigusmc]

well, at least it's a pretty shade of pink